Crease: This is the area directly in front of the goal. This area is marked out by a semicircle that has a radius of 5 feet 9 inches. The goalkeeper cannot be interfered with in this area.

 

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Crease: This is the area directly in front of the goal. This area is marked out by a semicircle that has a radius of 5 feet 9 inches. The goalkeeper cannot be interfered with in this area.

Goal Crease: An area in front of the goal cage. In the national hockey league, the crease is a rectangle 8 feet wide and 4 ½ feet long, surmounted by the arc of a circle that extends a further 1 ½ feet a . . . View Full Definition

Crease Lines: The red lines that form the semi-circular area with a 6-foot radius in front of the goal called the goal crease.

Spring Diatom Increase: The major rapid population increase of diatoms, occurring in the spring in temperate-boreal latitudes

Referee’s Crease: A semi-circular area, with a 10 foot radius, marked in red on the ice in front of the timekeepers’ bench into which players may not follow a referee.

Do Not Increase (DNI): Deutsche (German) marks.

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Short Sale: Number of shares of a security that investors have sold short divided by average daily volume of the security (measured over 30 days or 90 days). There are various interpretations of this ra . . . View Full Definition

Shortfall Risk: Costs that fall with increases in the level of investment in current assets.

Share Repurchase: Program by which a corporation buys back its own shares in the open market. It is usually done when shares are undervalued. Since repurchase reduces the number of shares outstanding and thus . . . View Full Definition