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VI
Financial services; General Finance
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S..
special bid
Financial services; General Finance
A method of purchasing a large block of stock on the NYSE by advertising a client's large buy order, and matching it up with a number of other traders' smaller sell orders.
ammoniated
Dairy products; Cheese
The term usually used for bloomy or washed rind cheeses, giving off a strong smell or taste of ammonia.
m1
Astronomy; General astronomy
Total, integrated magnitude of a comet's head (meaning coma + nuclear condensation). This can be estimated visually, as the comet's "total visual magnitude". The variable m 1 is ...
character height
Advertising; Billboard advertising
Height of the largest letter that can be displayed on a message center; height of a seven-pixel high character according to center-to-center spacing.
