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Offering Scale: The range of prices offered by the underwriter of a serial bond issue with different maturities.

Private Offering: An offering of securities to no more than 25 persons and sale to no more than 10 persons.

Primary Offering: Direct/Sale of a firm's newly issued shares by the firm to investors.

Public Offering: Used in the context of general equities. Offering to the investment public, after compliance with registration requirements of the SEC, usually by an investment banker or a syndicate made up . . . View Full Definition

Public Offering Price: The price of a new issue of securities at the time that the issue is offered to the public.

Relative Value Scale (RVS): A method used by MCOs of determining provider reimbursement that assigns a weighted value to each medical procedure or service. To determine the amount the MCO will pay to the physician, the . . . View Full Definition

Registered Secondary Offering: A reoffering of a large block of securities, previously publicly issued, by the holder of a large portion of some corporation through an investment firm.

Phi Scale: Scale used for measuring the grain size of sediments. = -log2 (grain diameter)

Pentatonic Scale: Five-note pattern used in some African, Far Eastern and Native American musics: can also be found in Western music as an example of exoticism.

Offering Date: The offering date is the first day on which a stock or bond is publicly available for purchase. For example, the first trading day of an initial public offering (IPO) is its offering date.