redemption repurchase buyback | the act of purchasing back something previously sold |
redemption salvation | (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil |
installation installing installment instalment | the act of installing something (as equipment), the telephone installation took only a few minutes |
payment defrayal defrayment | the act of paying money |
requital payment | an act of requiting, returning in kind |
constant constant quantity invariable | a quantity that does not vary |
law of constant proportion law of definite proportions | (chemistry) law stating that every pure substance always contains the same elements combined in the same proportions by weight |
installment instalment | a part of a published serial |
mortgage application | an application for a mortgage loan |
stop payment | a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check |
mortgage deed | deed embodying a mortgage |
episode installment instalment | a part of a broadcast serial |
typewriter font constant-width font fixed-width font monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Freddie Mac FHLMC | a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages |
Federal National Mortgage Association Fannie Mae FNMA | a federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages |
mortgagee mortgage holder | the person who accepts a mortgage, the bank became our mortgagee when it accepted our mortgage on our new home |
Lambert Constant Lambert Leonard Constant Lambert | English composer and conductor (-) |
transfer payment | a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services |
payment | a sum of money paid or a claim discharged |
regular payment | a payment made at regular times |
payment rate rate of payment repayment rate installment rate | the amount of money paid out per unit time |
support payment | a payment made by one person for the support of another |
installment plan installment buying time plan | a system for paying for goods by installments |
payoff final payment | the final payment of a debt |
redemption | repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock) |
token payment | a small payment made in acknowledgement of an obligation |
installment | a payment of part of a debt, usually paid at regular intervals |
mortgage-backed security | a security created when a group of mortgages are gathered together and bonds are sold to other institutions or the public, investors receive a portion of the interest payments on the mortgages as well as the principal payments, usually guaranteed by the government |
down payment deposit | a partial payment made at the time of purchase, the balance to be paid later |
mortgage | a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan |
first mortgage | a mortgage that has priority over all mortgages and liens except those imposed by law |
second mortgage | a mortgage that is subordinate to a first mortgage |
chattel mortgage | a loan to buy some personal item, the item (or chattel) is security for the loan |
credit deferred payment | arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services |
installment credit installment loan | a loan repaid with interest in equal periodic payments |
draft bill of exchange order of payment | a document ordering the payment of money, drawn by one person or bank on another |
disability check disability payment | a monthly payment made to someone who has become disabled and is unable to work |
medicare check medicare payment | a check reimbursing an aged person for the expenses of health care |
cash immediate payment | prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check |
installment debt | debt to be paid by installments |
real estate loan mortgage loan | a loan on real estate that is usually secured by a mortgage |
constant | a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context, the velocity of light is a constant |
Boltzmann's constant | constant used in the calculation of the ideal gas constant |
cosmological constant | an arbitrary constant in the equations of general relativity theory |
equilibrium constant | (chemistry) the ratio of concentrations when equilibrium is reached in a reversible reaction (when the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction) |
dissociation constant | the equilibrium constant for a reversible dissociation |
gas constant universal gas constant R | (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume R times temperature, equal to . joules per kelvin per mole |
gravitational constant universal gravitational constant constant of gravitation G | (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation |
Hubble's constant Hubble constant Hubble's parameter Hubble parameter | (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer, the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today |
Planck's constant h | the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency, approximately . x ^- joule-second |