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Holiday
Any day fixed by law, custom or religion on which day-to-day business is suspended for the celebration or commemmoration of some event or public figure.
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without recourse
Financial services; General Finance
Giving the lender no right to seek payment or seize assets in the event of nonpayment from anyone other than the party specified in the debt contract (such as a special-purpose ...
gruppetto
Sports; Bicycle & electric bicycle
group of riders at the rear of the race. Gruppettos generally form in mountain stages when trailing riders get together to reach the finishing line within time to avoid ...
clean coal technologies
Energy; Coal
Terminology referring to technologies that greatly reduce the emissions of coal in an effort to protect the environment and reduce acid rain.
Self Tender
Financial services; General Finance
A company buys back a certain percentage of its own shares through a tender offer.
quadrature
Astronomy; Mars
Two bodies are in quadrature when their difference in celestial longitude is 90 degrees. This is the position of a superior planet when its elongation is 90 degrees, east or west, ...
adaptive optics
Astronomy; General astronomy
Compensating for atmospheric distortions in a wavefront by high-speed changes in the shape of a small, thin mirror.
cell cycle
Biology; Genetics
Complete sequence of steps which must be performed by a cell in order to replicate itself, as seen from mitotic event to mitotic event. Most of the cycle consists of a growth ...
