acceptable risk
1Acceptable Risk (novel) — infobox Book | name = Acceptable Risk title orig = translator = image caption = author = Robin Cook illustrator = cover artist = Don Brautigam country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = G. P. Putnam s Sons, New… …
2acceptable risk — /əksɛptəbəl ˈrɪsk/ (say uhkseptuhbuhl risk) noun a risk, considered to be small or of no great consequence, which one must necessarily take in order to be able to achieve a positive benefit …
3Risk assessment — is a common first step in a risk management process. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat. Quantitative risk assessment requires calculations of… …
4Risk homeostasis — is a risk theory developed by Gerald J.S. Wilde, a professor emeritus of psychology at Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This theory is fleshed out in Wilde s book1.The theory of risk homeostasis states that an individual has an… …
5risk — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, considerable, enormous, grave, great, high, huge, major, serious, significant …
6acceptable — adj. 1 a worthy of being accepted. b pleasing, welcome. 2 adequate, satisfactory. 3 tolerable (an acceptable risk). Derivatives: acceptability n. acceptableness n. acceptably adv. Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL acceptabilis (as ACCEPT) …
7Risk — takers redirects here. For the Canadian television program, see Risk Takers. For other uses, see Risk (disambiguation). Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable… …
8Risk perception — is the subjective judgment that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in reference to natural hazards and threats to the environment or health, such as nuclear power. Several theories have… …
9Acceptable daily intake — or ADI is a measure of the amount of a specific substance (usually a food additive, or a residue of a veterinary drug or pesticide) in food or drinking water that can be ingested (orally) over a lifetime without an appreciable health risk. ADIs… …
10Risk-aware consensual kink — (RACK, also Risk Accepted Consensual Kink) is an acronym used by some of the BDSM community to describe themselves and their philosophies. It specifies that any activity between fully informed consenting adults is acceptable. Philosophy RACK s… …
