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1Weighted Airmen Promotion System — The Weighted Airmen Promotion System (WAPS) is a United States Air Force program that determines who will be promoted to the ranks of Staff Sergeant (E 5) through Master Sergeant (E 7) and provides feedback score sheets to enlisted members… …
2Weighted clothing — is the adding of weight to various parts of the body through attaching weighted pieces to the body which leave the hands free to grasp. Unlike with held weights or machines, the user is generally more apt for normal movement. In some cases… …
3weighted-average maturity — ( WAM) The average of the time remaining until the contractual maturity date for the loans in an MBS pool weighted by the size of each loan. Expressed in months. American Banker Glossary The weighted average maturity of an MBS is the weighted… …
4weighted-average coupon — ( WAC) The average interest rate charged to mortgage loan borrowers in an MBS pool weighted by the size of each loan. Individual loans in an MBS pool will not usually have the same rates of interest. For example, FNMA pools may have mortgages… …
5Weighted TeraFLOPS — (WT) is a unit of measurement introduced by the U.S. Department of Commerce s Bureau of Industry and Security to specify Adjusted Peak Performance (APP). The weighting factor is 0.3 for non vector processors and 0.9 for vector processors. For… …
6Weighted average cost of carbon — The Weighted average cost of carbon is used in finance to measure a firm s specific cost of carbon. It expresses how much an organization is expending to either reduce carbon emissions internally (wict|abatement) or offsetting externally (carbon… …
7Weighted Average Remaining Term - WART — The remaining life of an asset backed security or a mortgage backed security. It is measured in months, and is used to denote the remaining maturity of the mortgages or assets that comprise a pool. The weighting factor used in calculating this… …
8weighted average maturity — The weighted average maturity of an MBS is the weighted average of the remaining terms to maturity ( term to maturity) of the mortgages underlying the collateral pool at the date issue, using as the weighting factor the balance of each of the… …
9Weighted Average Rating Factor - WARF — A measure that is used by credit rating companies to determine the credit quality of a portfolio. This measure allows rating companies to look at a portfolio as a single security, and assign it a single rating.WARFs are most often calculated by… …
10Weighted Average Coupon - WAC — The weighted average gross interest rates of the pool of mortgages that underlie a mortgage backed security (MBS) at the time the securities were issued. A mortgage backed security s current WAC can differ from its original WAC as the underlying… …
