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• Absolute Rate — The fixed portion of an interest rate swap, expressed as a percentage rather than as a premium or a discount to a reference rate. The absolute rate is a combination of the reference rate and the premium or discounted fixed percentage. For example …   Investment dictionary

• Absolute rate —   A quote made which is given as an absolute rate rather than in reference to a funding base such as LIBOR, US treasury rates, etc. For example rather than LIBOR + 0.75% the bid is expressed as 10.375% …   International financial encyclopaedia

• Absolute pitch — (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability of a person to identify or recreate a musical note without the benefit of a known reference.DefinitionAbsolute pitch, or perfect pitch, is the ability to identify the frequency or musical… …   Wikipedia

• Rate–distortion optimization — (also RDO or RD) is a method of improving video quality in video compression. The name refers to the optimization of the amount of distortion (loss of video quality) against the amount of data required to encode the video, the rate . While it is… …   Wikipedia

• Absolute music — (sometimes abstract music) is a term used to describe musicthat is not explicitly about anything, non representational ornon objective. In contrast with program music, absolute music has no references to stories or images or any other kind of… …   Wikipedia

• Rate of response — is a ratio between two measurements with different units. Rate of responding is the number of responses per minute, or some other time unit. It is usually written as R. Its first major exponent was B. F. Skinner (1939). It is used in the Matching …   Wikipedia

• absolute pitch — n. 1. the pitch of a tone as determined by its rate of vibration 2. the ability to identify the pitch of any tone heard, or to sing a given tone, without hearing a known pitch beforehand …   English World dictionary

• Absolute rotation — In physics, the consideration of absolute rotation rotation independent of any external reference is a topic of debate about relativity, cosmology, and the nature of physical laws. The question of whether absolute rotation is meaningful is… …   Wikipedia

• Absolute deviation — In statistics, the absolute deviation of an element of a data set is the absolute difference between that element and a given point. Typically the point from which the deviation is measured is a measure of central tendency, most often the median… …   Wikipedia

• Absolute time and space — See also: Absolute rotation, Bucket argument, Rotating spheres, and Inertial frame of reference Originally introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the concepts of absolute time and space provided a… …   Wikipedia

• rate — 1. A record of the measurement of an event or process in terms of its relation to some fixed standard; measurement is expressed as the ratio of one quantity to another ( e.g., velocity, distance per unit …   Medical dictionary