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41To fall short — Short Short, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. {Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear… …
42Bond duration — Financial markets Public market Exchange Securities Bond market Fixed income Corporate bond Government bond Municipal bond …
43negative duration — (1) The name for a particular relationship between changes in the price of a debt security and changes in prevailing interest rates. When a security has negative duration, its price decreases in response to a decrease in prevailing market rates.… …
44positive duration — (1) The name for a particular relationship between changes in the price of a debt security and changes in prevailing interest rates. When a security has positive duration, its price increases in response to a decrease in prevailing market rates.… …
45Extended Duration Orbiter — The Extended Duration Orbiter program was a project by NASA to prepare for long term (months) microgravity research aboard Space Station Freedom, which later evolved into the International Space Station. Scientists and NASA needed practical… …
46Naked short selling — Schematic representation of naked short selling in two steps. The short seller sells shares without owning them. He then purchases and delivers the shares for a different market price. If the short seller cannot afford the shares in the second… …
47Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat — feeding on Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) at night in Kolkata, West Bengal, India …
48King Leonardo and his Short Subjects — infobox television show name = King Leonardo and his Short Subjects genre = animation runtime = 30 minutes starring = Jackson Beck Kenny Delmar Allen Swift Sandy Becker producer = Joe Harris Treadwell Covington Buck Biggers Chet Stover network =… …
49brief, short — Brief applies especially to duration of time (a brief stay in a hospital). Brief also means concise, curt, and succinct : The chairman made a brief talk of only five minutes. Short applies to both time and space: That was a short meeting. Joe is… …
50Extra-short — The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a breve, IPA| [ ̆] , to indicate a speech sound (usually a vowel) with less than normal duration. That is, IPA| [ă] is a very short vowel with the quality of IPA| [a] .An example from English is the short… …
