No Drive No Five: An expression meaning that to take out the five pin on a pocket hit, the ball must drive through the deflection from the headpin to hit the five pin.

 

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No Drive No Five: An expression meaning that to take out the five pin on a pocket hit, the ball must drive through the deflection from the headpin to hit the five pin.

Normal Yield: The average historic yield established for a particular farm or area. Can also describe average yields. Normal production would be the normal crop acreage planted multiplied by the normal yi . . . View Full Definition

Normal Retirement: The age or number of working years after which a pension plan beneficiary can retire and receive unreduced benefits immediately.

Normal Tide: A nontechnical term synonymous with tide; i.e., the rise and fall of the ocean due to the gravitational interactions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth alone. Use of this term is discouraged.

Normality: A measure of solution concentration, defined as the number of equivalents of solute per liter of solution.

Normalizing: The process of heating a metal above a critical temperature and allowing it to cool slowly under room temperature conditions to obtain a softer and less distorted material.

Normalized Earnings: Earnings that have been adjusted in order to take into account the effect of cycles in the economy.

Normalize: This term can be applied to many aspects of accounting. It means to average or smooth out a set of figures so they are more consistent with the general trend of the business. This is usually . . . View Full Definition

Normal Random Variable: A random variable that has a normal probability distribution.

Normal Portfolio: A customized benchmark that includes all the securities from which a manager normally chooses, weighted as the manager would weight them in a portfolio.