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...
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2. Position
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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 ...
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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 ...
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5. Position
   The latitude, longitude, and altitude of a point. An estimate of error is often associated with a position.
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6. 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
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7. 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.
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8. 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]
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9. 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.
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10. position
    financial situation of a client; 2.amount of shares etc. bought and sold at the end of the day by a broker Category: Commerce - movement of goods • function or job description within an organisation Category: General • in organic chemistry,the system of denoting the carbon at...
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11. 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...
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12. 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.» Sir T. Browne.
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13. 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...
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14. position
    view 2 perspective noun a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; `consider what follows from the positivist view`
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15. 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 furniture on the stage`
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16. position
    noun the particular portion of space occupied by something; `he put the lamp back in its place`
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17. position
    posture noun a rationalized mental attitude
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18. position
    berth noun a job in an organization; `he occupied a post in the treasury`
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19. position
    noun the arrangement of the body and its limbs; `he assumed an attitude of surrender`
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20. 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.
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21. 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...
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22. 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 ...
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23. 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.
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24. 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
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25. Position
    One party`s proposed solution to an issue in position-based bargaining; the how. 
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