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acid-test: a) the ratio of current assets minus inventories, accruals, and prepaid items to current liabilities; b) an indicator of a company`s financial strength (or weakness),calculated by taking current assets less inventories, divided by current liabilities
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

acid-test: the standard IBRD definition is the ratio of cash plus marketable securities plus accounts receivable plus other amounts readily convertible into cash to current liabilities. Other definitions include ratio of assets less inventories to current liabilities, ratio of quick assets to current liabilities, ratio of cash plus near-cash assets to current liabilities, and ratio of cash plus accounts receivable plus the market value of selected investments to current liabilities. In Latin America, 'relación de prueba ácida' is often found, while in Spain 'ratio de tesorería' is used
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

attest: the expression of a professional opinion on the accounts and the financial statements by an authorised external auditor
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

attestation: action by a third-party testing laboratory,demonstrating that the specific sample tested is in conformity with a specific standard or other normative document
Category: Standards, measures and testing

attestation: any evidence of qualifications:-attesting to education and training not forming part of a set constituting a diploma within the meaning of Directive 89/48/EEC or a diploma or certificate within the meaning of this Directive,or-awarded following an assessment of the personal qualities,aptitudes or knowledge which it is considered essential that the applicant have for the pursuit of a profession by an authority designated in accordance with the laws,regulations or administrative provisions of a Member State,without proof of prior education and training being required
Category: Education

board-tester: a device,usually computer controlled,which performs electronic tests on printed circuit boards
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

catestrophic: in a situation where so many errors have occurred,no more useful diagnostic information can be produced and the compilation is ended
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

contest: a -- is a sales promotion device in which the participants compete for a prize or prizes on the basis of their skill in fulfilling a certain requirement.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

contestable: market where the threat of free entry and exit leads an industry to price more competitively
Category: Management in the public and private sector

contestable: a market where there is freedom of entry and exit is costless.Potential entrants can enter such markets whenever profits exceed the normal rate
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

copy-testing: before a full-scale campaign is launched it is customary to try cut the value of the proposed advertising over a limited area or a limited number of potential customers
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

g-test: an application of the log likelihood ratio test for the hypothesis of independence in an r x c contingency table
Category: Statistics

incontestability: a clause which states that after a determined period,the insurer cannot dispute the validity of the policy if the insured has not committed any fraud,thus relieving the insured of the consequences of any non-disclosure or misrepresentation
Category: Insurance

intestacy: the state or condition of dying without having made a valid will, or without having disposed by will of a part of his property.(Black`s,5th ed.,1979)
Category: Law

intestate: a person who dies without a will,or leaves one which is defective in form,in which case the estate descends by operation of law to the next of kin
Category: Law

intestate: The estate of a person who dies without leaving a valid and operative will.(Ballentine`s,3rd ed.,1969)
Category: Law

L-test: tests proposed by Neyman & E.S.Pearson(1933)for testing the homogeneity of a set of sample variances.The tests,which are based on likelihood ratios in normal variation,vary according to the precise type of hypothesis under test
Category: Statistics

L-tests: tests proposed by Neymann and E.S.Pearson(1933)for testing the homogeneity of a set of sample variances.The tests,which are based on likelihood ratios in normal variation,vary according to the precise type of hypothesis under test
Category: Statistics

latest: the latest date by which a node has to be reached
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

means-tested: the social benefits which are explicitly or implicitly conditional on the beneficiary`s income and/or wealth falling below a specified level
Category: Statistics

Neyman-shortest: an optimum set of confidence intervals which,among all unbiased alpha-confidence intervals,it uniformly minimises the probability of covering false values
Category: Mathematics

OOS-test: a sequence of tests that includes out-of-service state
Category: News-systems and communications

post-test: the analysis and evaluation of advertising messages after their broadcast or publication
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

post-testing: the analysis and evaluation of advertising messages after their broadcast or publication
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

post-testing: the analysis and evaluation of advertising messages...after their broadcast or publication.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

posttested: a condition put just before the end of a loop and tested by the program after at least one cycle of the loop
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

pretest: the process of testing with hydraulic jacks the bearing capacity of pile,footing,brace,shore,or other unit of a structure,and of permanently weighing up its load by the patented pretest method.The distinctive feature of the pretest process is that the full test pressure is maintained while the wedging is being done,thus holding in compression the pile,footing,or shore,and the earth on which it bears,or,in the case of a horizontal brace,the brace itself and the members against which it pushes.This eliminates subsequent settlement
Category: Building industry

pretest: the analysis and evaluation of advertising messages, or copy research, involves pretesting the advertisements before they are published or broadcast as full-scale campaigns.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

pretested: a condition tested before the entry of the program into a loop
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

pretesting: the analysis and evaluation of advertising messages...before they are broodcast or published.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

protest: legal action taken in confirming the refusal of a party to accept its obligation to a transaction or order
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

protestable: this must be protested in the event of non-payment, as opposed to a non-protestable bill
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

Q-test: a test used to determine if there is a statistical basis for removing a data point from a data set
Category: Statistics

s-test: a term used by some writers for a test of significance of an observed standard deviation using Helmert`s distribution
Category: Statistics

t-test: a test based on the distribution known as student`s distribution
Category: Statistics

test: examination to evaluate the performance and capabilities of a student or class
Category: Management in the public and private sector

test: numeric or alphanumeric value derived by applying a bilaterally agreed method of computation,the test key,and to various elements,e.g.sender,amount,date,sequence,in a message in order to authenticate the message
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

test: a direct practical trial in whatever manner it may be made
Category: Standards, measures and testing

testa: the coat of a seed
Category: Botany and zoology

testability: a) the extent to which software facilitates both the establishment of test criteria and the evaluation of the software with respect to those criteria; b) the extent to which the definition of requirements facilitates analysis of the requirements to establish test criteria
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

testability: a descriptor of a general area of circuit design that deals with how testable a particular circuit design is going to be
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

testamentary: an instrument is said to be testamentary when it is written or made so as not to take effect until after the death of the person making it.(Jowitt`s,2nd ed.,1977,p.1762)
Category: Law

testamentary: Power to make a will.(Black`s,5th ed.,1979,p.1322)
Category: Law

testamentary: either parent may appoint a person to be guardian of a minor after the death of that parent. The appointment may be made by deed or will. Such guardian is termed a testamentary guardian.
Category: Law

testamentary: a valid testamentary provision is a provision made by will, duly executed in substantial conformity to law.
Category: Law

testamentary: That measure of mental ability which is recognized in law as sufficient for the making of a will.(Black`s,5th ed.,1979)
Category: Law

testamentary: A person intending to make a gift of his property may intend the gift to operate at once or may intend it to await his death.The former kind of gratuitous transfers of property,known as inter vivos transactions,must be distinguished from the latter kind,known as testamentary transactions....
Category: Law

testatrix: a woman who makes a will or testament.(Jowitt`s,2nd ed.,1977)
Category: Law

tested: a procedure in which a check is made for the presence of a signal repetition and a check is made for the ratio of the number of elements A to the number of elements Z in each of the characters received after the signal repetition within the non-print cycle
Category: News-systems and communications

tested: the maximum rate at which a well is known to have yielded water without appreciable increase in drawdown
Category: The cosmos

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