| economic strangulation | punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them, the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party |
economic mobilization
economic mobilisation | mobilization of the economy |
absorptivity
absorption factor | (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body |
sun protection factor
SPF | the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun |
releasing hormone
RH
releasing factor
hypothalamic releasing hormone
hypothalamic releasing factor | any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones, each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone |
gene
cistron
factor | (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain, it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons, it is considered a unit of heredity, genes were formerly called factors |
| cognitive factor | something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result |
determinant
determiner
determinative
determining factor
causal factor | a determining or causal element or factor, education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life |
clincher
decisive factor | a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively |
| factor | an independent variable in statistics |
component
constituent
element
factor
ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
| economic theory | (economics) a theory of commercial activities (such as the production and consumption of goods) |
| factor analysis | any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors, beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data |
| economic geology | the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials |
| economic geography | the branch of geography concerned with the production and distribution of commodities |
economics
economic science
political economy | the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management |
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
PF | a selfeport personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits |
clincher
determiner determining factor | an argument that is conclusive |
| economic policy | a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues |
| factor | anything that contributes causally to a result, a number of factors determined the outcome |
class stratum
social class
socio-economic class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status, the working class, an emerging professional class |
| Council of Economic Advisors | an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President |
European Union
EU
European Community
EC
European Economic Community
EEC
Common Market
Europe | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members, he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union |
Economic and Social Council
ECOSOC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for economic and social conditions |
Economic and Social Council commission
ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
| Economic Commission for Africa | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of African nations |
| Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
| Economic Commission for Europe | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Europe |
| Economic Commission for Latin America | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development in Latin America |
economy
economic system | the system of production and distribution and consumption |
agent factor
broker | a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
| economic libertarian | a libertarian who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state |
economist
economic expert | an expert in the science of economics |
aid
economic aid
financial aid | money to support a worthy person or cause |
economic rent
rent | the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions |
value
economic value | the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else, he tried to estimate the value of the produce at normal prices |
consumption
economic consumption
usance
use
use of goods and services | (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing, the consumption of energy has increased steadily |
| economic growth | steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income) |
| economic process | any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth |
coefficient of reflection
reflection factor
reflectance
reflectivity | the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface |
| factor | any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together |
| conversion factor | factor by which a quantity that is expressed in one set of units must be multiplied in order to convert it into another set of units |
factor of proportionality
constant of proportionality | the constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y, usually written y kx, where k is the factor of proportionality |
| prime factor | the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity |
| divisor factor | one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer, what are the factors of ? |
multiplier
multiplier factor | the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied |
| scale factor | a number used as a multiplier in scaling |
| time-scale factor | the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process |
| equivalent-binary-digit factor | the average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary, on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes .N binary digits |
common divisor
common factor
common measure | an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly |