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Rope: A hard line drive hit by a batter. Also ‘frozen rope.’

Separate Property: Under community property law, property owned solely by either spouse before the marriage, acquired by gift or inheritance after the marriage or purchased with separate funds after the marriage.

Sellers Real Property Disclosure Form: As required by Nevada Real Estate Division Code NRS 113. 100-113.150, a transferee (buyer) of residential real property is entitled to a statement from the transferor (seller) which provides . . . View Full Definition

Intensive Property: A property that does not change when the amount of sample changes. Examples are density, pressure, temperature, color.

Physical Property: Measurement of a physical property may change the arrangement but not the structure of the molecules of a material. Examples of physical properties are density, color, boiling point, volume, . . . View Full Definition

Base Property: For the Bureau of Land Management: land or water resources, owned or controlled by a holder of a grazing permit or lease, that are suitable to support livestock for a part of the year. For t . . . View Full Definition

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI): A standards-setting body in Europe. Also the standards body responsible for GSM.

Special-Purpose Property: Hotels, resorts, nursing homes, theaters, schools, places of worship and other organizations whose specialized needs dictate the design and operation of the property.

Colligative Property: Properties of a solution that depend on the number of solute molecules present, but not on the nature of the solute. Osmotic pressure, vapor pressure, freezing point depression, and boiling . . . View Full Definition

Indo-European: The hypothetically reconstructed language that was the ancient ancestor of most European, Middle-Eastern, and Indian languages, including English. Some scholars prefer to use the noun-term p . . . View Full Definition