Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
Agency Cross — A trade that has only one agent acting for the buyer and seller. Also known as Dual Agency. Agency crosses occur when a broker receives perfectly offsetting trades simultaneously. The broker must send down the orders to the trading floor,… … Investment dictionary
Dual-use technology — Dual use is a term often used in politics and diplomacy to refer to technology which can be used for both peaceful and military aims. It often refers to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, but that of bioweapons is a major issue as well. The… … Wikipedia
Dual segmented Langmuir probe — (DSLP) Operator ESA Major contractors Astronomical Institute Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Mission type payload of Proba 2 Satellite of Earth … Wikipedia
Dual inheritance theory — (DIT), also known as gene culture coevolution, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution. DIT is a… … Wikipedia
Dual-tone multi-frequency — (DTMF) signaling is used for telephone signaling over the line in the voice frequency band to the call switching center. The version of DTMF used for telephone tone dialing is known by the trademarked term Touch Tone (canceled March 13, 1984),… … Wikipedia
Dual-Stage 4-Grid — (DS4G) is an electrostatic ion thruster currently under development by the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the Australian National University. A single 20 cm diameter 4 grid ion thruster could operate at 250kW power to produce a 2.5N … Wikipedia
Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling — One of the few production telephone DTMF keypads with all 16 keys, from an Autovon Telephone. The column of red keys produces the A, B, C, and D DTMF events. Dual tone multi frequency signaling (DTMF) is used for telecommunication signaling over… … Wikipedia
Dual Phase Steels Magnetism Modeling — The Dual Phase Steels Magnetism Modeling (DPS MMOD) program is an investigation project funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR).[1] The project started in 2009 for a period of four years. It aims at modeling and simulating dual… … Wikipedia
Dual EC DRBG — is a controversial pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) designed and published by the National Security Agency. It is based on the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP) and is one of the four PRNGs standardized in the NIST Special… … Wikipedia
Dual Banking System — The system of banking that exists in the United States in which state banks and national banks are chartered and supervised at different levels. Under the dual banking system, national banks are chartered and regulated under federal law and… … Investment dictionary
