Look up: floor

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   Floor
   Is the lower limit price or interest rate.
   Found on http://www.oasismanagement.com/glossary/
   
   
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   Floor
   Part of the local government finance system that guarantees a minimum increase in a council's funding every year. Set at 4% in 2002-3 for councils that deliver education and social services, and at inflation for smaller district councils.
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   Floor
   The trading area where securities are bought and sold on an exchange.
   Found on http://www.skandia.co.uk/glossary/index.
   
   
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   Floor
   An agreement with a counterparty that sets a lower limit to interest rates for the floor buyer for a stated time period.
   Found on http://www.exchange-handbook.co.uk/index
   
   
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   floor
   [n] - the ground on which people and animals move about 2. [n] - the bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc. 3. [n] - the occupants of a floor 4. [n] - a lower limit 5. [n] - the parliamentary right to address an assembly 6. [n] - the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business 7. [n] - a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done 8. [n] - structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building 9. [n] - the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway)
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   Floor
   1) An alternate tam meaning Range (a limit on the amount the signal is reduced when the input signal is low by an expander or gate).
   2) A shortening of the term Noise Floor (the level of the noise).
   Found on http://www.testing1212.co.uk/a.htm
   
   
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   Floor
   A recognised low point in market prices. This may be a point the market does not expect the price to fall below, the lowest price achieved before the market rises or a level set by a customer as a minimum selling price.
   Found on http://www.lme.co.uk/glossary.asp
   
   
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   Floor
   Horizontal load bearing construction spanning between supports.
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   Floor
   working level of a quarry, usually numbered or lettered
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    floor
    component supporting payload of container Category: Technical and industry in general • an interest rate option to protect the investor from a rate of falling against him Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs • the refractory lining forming the base of the combustion chamber. Category: Iron and steel industries
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
    
    
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    floor
    The floor of all computer rooms must be kept clean and uncluttered at all times, to comply with Health and Safety regulations.
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    Floor
    Definition (keystage 3) The smallest value that something can have is sometimes called its floor. <br /> Also, the floor of a number x is the largest integer which is not larger than x. The notation ⌊ x ⌋ is used for this function.
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    Floor
    Floor noun [ Anglo-Saxon fl...r ; akin to Dutch vloer , German flur field, floor, entrance hall, Icelandic fl...r floor of a cow stall, confer Ir. & Gael. lar floor, ground, earth, W. llawr , perhaps akin to Latin planus level. Confer Plain smooth.] 1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/45
    
    
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    Floor
    Floor transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Floored ; present participle & verbal noun Flooring .] 1. To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards. 2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as ...
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    floor
    1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported. ... 2. The structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2. ... 3. The surface, or the platform ...
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    floor
    flooring noun the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); `they needed rugs to cover the bare floors`
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    floor
    noun the parliamentary right to address an assembly; `the chairman granted him the floor`
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    floor
    noun a lower limit; `the government established a wage floor`
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    floor
    noun the occupants of a floor; `the whole floor complained about the lack of heat`
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    floor
    story noun a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; `what level is the office on?`
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    floor
    noun a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done; `he is a floor trader`
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    Floor
    In architecture, a `floor` is generally the lower horizontal surface of a room, and/or the supporting structure underneath it. It also commonly refers to flooring, or a wall-to-wall floor covering, which forms the decorative surface of the floor. The various levels in a building are also called floors, levels or stories/storeys, ie `ground floor` or `main floor`, `first story`, `mezzanine floor,` etc.
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    Floor
    The area of a stock exchange where active trading occurs. Also the price at which a stop order is activated (when the price drops low enough to activate such an order). In context of interest rates, a level which an interest rate or currency is structured not to go below.
    Found on http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg
    
    
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    floor
    (flor) the inferior inner surface of a hollow organ or other space. floor of pelvis the layer of tissue just below the outlet of the pelvis, formed by the coccygeal and levator ani muscles and the fascia of the perineum.
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    Floor
    • (n.) The right to speak. • (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge. • (n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. • (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, t...
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