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Engineering
The discipline, art, skill and profession of applying scientific knowledge and principles to the design and manufacturing of machines, structures, devices, systems, materials and processes.
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securitisation
Financial services; General Finance
Creating a more or less standard investment instrument such as the mortgage pass-through security, by pooling assets to back the instrument. Also refers to the replacement of ...
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Astronomy; General astronomy
The alphabetic letter ("variable") used to denote the distance between the sun and the object being discussed, also called the object's heliocentric distance; in most ephemerides ...
provisional ball
Sports; Golf
When a player can't locate or find the first ball that they hit, then they play a second ball from the place, as close as they can determine, that the first ball was lost. They ...
uncollected funds
Financial services; General Finance
The amount of bank deposits in the form of checks that have not yet been paid by the banks on which the checks are drawn.
US Treasury bond
Financial services; General Finance
US government debt with a maturity of more than 10 years.
mass start
Sports;
events such as road races, cross-country races and criteriums in which all contestants leave the starting line at the same time.
sovereign risk
Financial services; General Finance
The risk that a central bank will impose foreign exchange regulations that will reduce or negate the value of FX contracts. Also refers to the risk of government default on a loan ...
