avoidance of an issue
1Tax avoidance and tax evasion — Tax avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one s own advantage, in order to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law. By contrast tax evasion is the general term for efforts to not pay taxes by… …
2Constitutional avoidance — In United States constitutional law, the doctrine of constitutional avoidance dictates that a federal court should refuse to rule on a constitutional issue if the case can be resolved on a nonconstitutional basis. When a federal court is faced… …
3Conflict avoidance — is a method of dealing with conflict, which attempts to avoid directly confronting the issue at hand. Methods of doing this can include changing the subject, putting off a discussion until later, or simply not bringing up the subject of… …
4Traffic Collision Avoidance System — The Traffic alert and Collision Avoidance System (or TCAS) is an aircraft collision avoidance system designed to reduce the incidence of mid air collisions between aircraft. It monitors the airspace around an aircraft for other aircraft equipped… …
5TCP congestion avoidance algorithm — The TCP uses a network congestion avoidance algorithm that includes various aspects of an additive increase multiplicative decrease (AIMD) scheme, with other schemes such as slow start in order to achieve congestion avoidance. TCP Tahoe and Reno… …
6Call Avoidance — is a popular strategyFact|date=January 2008 implemented to reduce inbound call volumes to contact centers in the customer service industry, particularly in the consumer market. It is based on the fact that person to person service calls are time… …
7Asteroid-impact avoidance — Planetary defense redirects here. For defending against alien invasion in fiction, see alien invasion. Artist s impression of a major impact event. The collision between Earth and an asteroid a few kilometres in diameter releases as much energy… …
8Zone of Avoidance — The Zone of Avoidance (ZOA) is the area of the night sky that is obscured by our own galaxy, the Milky Way.TermThe ZOA was originally called the Zone of Few Nebulae in an 1878 paper by English astronomer Richard Proctor that referred to the… …
9Airborne Collision Avoidance System — (ACAS) is an ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) standard specified in ICAO Annex 10 Vol IV which provides pilots with a system independent of air traffic control to detect the presence of other aircraft which may present a threat of …
10Original issue discount — (OID) is a type of interest that is not payable as it accrues. OID is normally created when a debt, usually a bond, is issued at a discount. In effect, selling a bond at a discount converts stated principal into a return on investment, or… …
