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Super Affiliate: An affiliate capable of generating a significant percentage of an affiliate program's activity.

Superior Vena Cava: Blood from the head returns to the heart through this main vein.

Superior Planets: Planets whose orbits are larger than Earth's. The term is sometimes restricted to the three outermost planets: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

Supermajority: Usually a home financing bond, but also any other bond that has long-term coupons but short maturity; the mortgages may be prepaid, and the holders may receive the long-term yield after a sh . . . View Full Definition

Supermajority Amendment: Provision in a company's charter requiring a majority of, say, 80% of shareholders to approve certain changes, such as a merger.

Supermoto: Generally, a style of motorcycle usually built around, and looking like, off-road machines with street tires. They tend to be very light, flickable machines, and are used in a genre of motor . . . View Full Definition

Superintendent: (also 'head greenkeeper or greenkeeper') the person in charge of overseeing the golf course maintenance and crew

Superfund Amendments And Reauthorization Act (SARA): An amendatory statute that contains stronger cleanup standards for contaminated sites, increased funding for Superfund and clarifications of lender liability and innocent landowner immunity.

Supercritical Fluid: A fluid state that occurs when the pressure and temperature exceed the substance's critical pressure and critical temperature. Supercritical fluids fill their containers like gases but disso . . . View Full Definition

Supercooling: The reduction of the temperature of any liquid below the melting point of that substance's solid phase. Cooling a substance beyond its nominal freezing point. Supercooled water is water that . . . View Full Definition