Standby Time: The amount of time you can leave your fully charged cellular portable or transportable phone turned on before the phone will completely discharge the batteries. See Talk Time.

 

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Standby Time: The amount of time you can leave your fully charged cellular portable or transportable phone turned on before the phone will completely discharge the batteries. See Talk Time.

Talk Time: The length of time you can talk on your portable or transportable cellular phone without recharging the battery. The battery capacity of a cellular portable or transportable is usually expre . . . View Full Definition

Standby: Class of air passengers who hold tickets that do not allow for advanced reservations (standby fares), or are waiting for available seats.

Standby Agreement: Also called the normal deviate, the distance of one data point from the mean, divided by the standard deviation of the distribution.

Standby Commitment: In a rights issue, agreement that the underwriter will purchase any stock not purchased by investors.

Standard Time: A kind of time based upon the transit of the Sun over a certain specified meridian, called the time meridian, and adopted for use over a considerable area. With a few exceptions, standard ti . . . View Full Definition

Stability-Time Hypothesis: Hypothesis that states that higher diversity occurs in habitats that are ancient and stable environmentally

Sidereal Time: The measure of time as defined by the diurnal motion of the vernal equinox. A sidereal day is equivalent to one complete rotation of the earth relative to the equinox, which is 23 hours, 56 . . . View Full Definition

Solar Time: Time measured by the hour angle of the Sun. It is called apparent time when referred to the actual Sun and mean time when referred to the mean Sun. It is also classified as local, standard, . . . View Full Definition

Standby Fee: An agreement between a corporation and investment firm that the firm will purchase whatever part of a stock issue that is offered in a rights offering that is not subscribed to in the two- t . . . View Full Definition