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51instantaneous rate of fishing mortality — used to describe the decrease in numbers of fish over time when fishing and natural mortality act concurrently (Nt = No * e^ Zt , where No is the initial number and Nt is the number of the remaining fish at the end of time t. Z is the… …
52Additive increase/multiplicative decrease — The additive increase/multiplicative decrease (AIMD) algorithm is a feedback control algorithm used in TCP Congestion Avoidance. Basically, AIMD represents a linear growth of the congestion window, combined to an exponential reduction when a… …
53Key Rate Duration — Holding all other maturities constant, this measures the sensitivity of a security or the value of a portfolio to a 1% change in yield for a given maturity. The calculation is as follows: Where: P = Security s price after a 1% decrease in yield… …
54discount rate — noun a) An interest rate that a central bank charges depository institutions that borrow reserves from it. b) The interest rate used to discount future cashflows of a financial instrument; the annual interest rate used to decrease the amounts of… …
55Key Rate — The specific interest rate that determines bank lending rates and the cost of credit for borrowers. The two key interest rates in the United States are the discount rate and the Federal Funds rate. The key rates are one of the chief tools used by …
56step rate — noun : a rate that changes by regular gradations: as a. : a life insurance premium rate that increases or decreases each year b. : a utilities rate whereby an increase in unit consumption results in a decrease in unit price …
57erythrocyte sedimentation rate — (ESR) the rate at which erythrocytes precipitate out from a well mixed specimen of venous blood, measured by the distance the top of the column of erythrocytes falls in a given time interval under specified conditions; an increase in rate is… …
58dry adiabatic lapse rate — The rate of decrease of the temperature with the height of a parcel of dry air lifted adiabatically through the earth’s atmosphere in hydrostatic equilibrium. This lapse rate is g/cp, where g is the acceleration of gravity and cp is the specific… …
59lapse rate — lapse′ rate n. mer the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location • Etymology: 1915–20 …
60lapse rate — n. the rate of decrease of an atmospheric variable, usually temperate, with increase of altitude …
