Financial and business terms. 2012.
synthetic position — A hedging strategy combining futures and futures options for price protection and increased profit potential; for example, by buying a put option and selling (writing) a call option, a trader can construct a position that is similar to a short… … Financial and business terms
Synthetic aperture radar — (SAR) is a form of radar in which the highly directional (and thus very large) rotating antenna used by conventional radar is replaced with many low directivity small stationary antenna positions scattered over some area near or around the target … Wikipedia
Synthetic molecular motors — are molecular machines capable of rotation under energy input. Although the term molecular motor has traditionally referred to a naturally occurring protein that induces motion, some groups also use the term when referring to non biological, non… … Wikipedia
Synthetic phonics — is a method of teaching reading which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words. The method relates to the English language only, and as of 2007 is the… … Wikipedia
synthetic — A derivative position which is created synthetically by using other derivative contracts. For example, the creation of a synthetic long future by the purchase of a call option and the sale of a put option with the same exercise price and expiry… … Financial and business terms
Inverse synthetic aperture radar — (ISAR) is a technique to generate a two dimensional high resolution image of a target.In situations where other radars display only a single unidentifiable bright moving pixel, the ISAR image is often adequate to discriminate between various… … Wikipedia
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar — Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, also abbreviated InSAR or IfSAR, is a radar technique used in geodesy and remote sensing. This geodetic method uses two or more synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to generate maps of surface… … Wikipedia
Crystallographic defects in diamond — Synthetic diamonds of various colors grown by the high pressure high temperature technique, the diamond size is 2 mm … Wikipedia
steroid — /stear oyd, ster /, Biochem. n. 1. any of a large group of fat soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action. adj. 2. Also, steroidal /sti royd l, ste /. pertaining to or … Universalium
Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… … Universalium
