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Look up: position


  1. Position
    [team sports] Position in team sports refers to the joint arrangement of a team on its field of play during a game and to the standardized place of any individual player in that arrangement. Much instruction, strategy, and reporting is organized by a set of individual player positions that i...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_(team_sports)

  2. Position
    [ice hockey] PortlandConnected.com http://portlandconnected.com ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_(ice_hockey)

  3. Position
    [finance] In financial trading, a position is a binding commitment to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price. The term "position" is also used in the context of finance for the amount of securities or commodities ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_(finance)

  4. Position
    [vector] These names for the first, second and third derivative of position are commonly used in basic kinematics. By extension, the higher order derivatives can be computed in a similar fashion. Study of these higher order derivatives can improve approximations of the original displacement ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_(vector)

  5. Position
    A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into. The buyer of a commodity is said to have a long position and the seller of a commodity is said to have a short position . Related: open contracts
    Found op http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosp.htm

  6. Position
    The total of an option trader`s open contracts in a particular underlying security;A market commitment. For example, a purchaser of a futures contract has a long position, while a seller of a futures contract has a short position.
    Found op http://www.skandia.co.uk/glossary/index.html

  7. position
    [n] - the appropriate or customary location 2. [n] - the particular portion of space occupied by a physical object 3. [n] - a way of regarding situations or topics etc. 4. [n] - a rationalized mental attitude 5. [n] - position or arrangement of the body and its limbs 6. [n]
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=position

  8. Position
    The net tonnage a party has bought or sold on any given prompt date. Also the overall position, being the net tonnage bought or sold for all prompt dates combined.
    Found op http://www.lme.co.uk/glossary.html

  9. Position
    Po·si'tion noun [ French position , Latin positio , from ponere , positum , to put, place; probably for posino , from an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Greek ...) + sinere to leave, let, permit, p...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/132

  10. Position
    Po·si'tion transitive verb To indicate the position of; to place. [ R.] Encyc. Brit. Po*si'tion*al adjective Of or pertaining to position. « Ascribing unto plants positional operations.» Si...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/132

  11. position
    1. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. 'We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it.' (Locke) ... 2. The spot where a person or thing is plac...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?position

  12. position
    view 2 perspective noun a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; `consider what follows from the positivist view`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=position



  1. position
    spatial relation noun the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; `the position of the hands on the clock`; `he specified the spatial relations of every piece of ...
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=position

  2. position
    noun the particular portion of space occupied by something; `he put the lamp back in its place`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=position

  3. position
    posture noun a rationalized mental attitude
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=position

  4. position
    berth noun a job in an organization; `he occupied a post in the treasury`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=position

  5. position
    noun the arrangement of the body and its limbs; `he assumed an attitude of surrender`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=position

  6. position
    (pә-zish´әn) a bodily posture or attitude. the relationship of a given point on the presenting part of the fetus to a designated point of the maternal pelvis; see presentation.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  7. Position
    • (n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one`s position. • (v. t.) To indicate the position of; to place. • (n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/position/

  8. position
    in Greek or Latin prosody, the condition of having a short vowel followed by two consonants or a double consonant (such as -pp- in the Greek word ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/99

  9. Position
    A market commitment; the number of contracts bought or sold for which no offsetting transaction has been entered into. The buyer of a commodity is said to have a long position, and the seller of a commodity is said to have a short position. Related: Open contracts.
    Found op http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/bfglosp.htm

  10. Position
    An investor`s long or short holdings of a particular stock or other security. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
    Found op http://www.equitrend.com/glossary2980.xhtml

  11. Position
    One party`s proposed solution to an issue in position-based bargaining; the how. 
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21021

  12. Position
    The latitude, longitude, and altitude of a point. An estimate of error is often associated with a position.
    Found op http://www.navtechgps.com/assets/1/7/NGPSAcronymsGlossary.pdf

  13. Position
    [poker] Position in poker refers to the order in which players are seated around the table and the related poker strategy implications. Players who act first are in "early position"; players who act later are in "late position". A player "has position" on opponents acting before him and is "...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_(poker)

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