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Cation: An positively charged ion.

Special Education: Special instruction for students with educational or physical disabilities; tailored to each student's needs and learning style.

Back-End Qualification: When qualifying a prospective buyer for financing, the ratio of the borrowers income to monthly debt obligation is a primary consideration. Based on back-end qualification, the ratio of a pr . . . View Full Definition

Magnification: Is the size of the image relative to the size of the subject used to produce it. It is an expression of the ratio of the subject-lens distance to the image-lens distance. When object distanc . . . View Full Definition

Workers Adjustment And Retraining Notification Act (WARN) Of 1988: WARN requires employers (with 100 or more employees) that are planning a plant closing or a mass layoff to give affected employees at least 60 days' notice of such an employment action. Whil . . . View Full Definition

Vacation Carryover: A policy allowing employees to transfer a portion of their current year vacation balances for use in the next year. The amount of time that can be carried over is based on the employer’s policy.

Helper Application: This is an application your browser uses to manipulate a downloaded program.

Verification: A program that determines an email came from the sender listed in the return path or Internet headers; designed to stop email from forged senders.

Collocation: Placement of multiple antennas at a common physical site to reduce environmental impact and real estate costs and speed zoning approvals and network deployment.

Animal Communication: The exchange of information among animals, especially as contrasted with human language and meta-language (Algeo 312). Examples include pheremone trails left by ants, semaphore communication . . . View Full Definition