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71sliding scale — slid|ing scale [ ,slaıdıŋ skeıl ] noun count a system of making payments or paying taxes where the amount you pay changes according to a fixed set of rates: The doctor has a sliding scale of fees based on patients income …
72international temperature scale — noun : a practical temperature scale defining all temperatures above 183° C by specified formulas relating temperatures at one atmosphere pressure to the indications of instruments calibrated at six reproducible fixed points: the boiling point of …
73Resource-Based Relative Value Scale — (RBRVS) is a schema used to determine how much money medical providers should be paid. It is currently used by Medicare in the United States and by nearly every Health maintenance organizations (HMOs).RBRVS assigns procedures performed by a… …
74economies of scale — lower per unit costs achieved by large scale output. Two kinds: internal benefit the firm: specialized labour is more efficient, fixed costs spread over more units of production, purchasing is cheaper with bulk buying, larger firms can enjoy… …
75diatonic scale — noun the diatonic scale a set of eight musical notes that uses a fixed pattern of spaces between the notes …
76Ridge detection — The ridges (or the ridge set) of a smooth function of two variables is a set of curves whose points are, loosely speaking, local maxima in at least one dimension. For a function of N variables, its ridges are a set of curves whose points are… …
77chronology — /kreuh nol euh jee/, n., pl. chronologies. 1. the sequential order in which past events occur. 2. a statement of this order. 3. the science of arranging time in periods and ascertaining the dates and historical order of past events. 4. a… …
78Physical model — Model of a burning house at Bekonscot, Beaconsfield, UK …
79vernier — /verr nee euhr/, n. 1. Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed… …
80Model (physical) — A physical model is a smaller or larger physical copy of an object. The object being modelled may be small (for example, an atom) or large (for example, the Solar System).The geometry of the model and the object it represents are often similar in …
