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001 in One mil is equal to _____ with the study of formal manipulations of
equations involving symbols and numbers.
0.036 psi
One inch water column at 4 deg. C is equal
250 Pa Ambiguous This is the case of a solution of a plane triangle
______
.868 Torr case where the given data leads to two solutions.
0.063 lps An asset Work-in process is classified as
449 cfs
One gpm is equal to ______ It is the space between intersecting rays or
0.2272 cmh Angle
lines.
1440 gpd
Angle of An angle that measures from the horizontal
0.588 cfm
elevation upward to an object is called
4.4 gpm One CMH is equal to _____
0.278 lps It is a series of equal payment occuring at
Annuity equal interval of time, A series of uniform
0.946 li One quarts is equal to ______
accounts over a period of time.
The coefficient of discharge of a venturi meter
0.98 Apeirogon Polygon with infinite sides
is approximately equal to
the perpendicular line drawn from the center
1 coulomb per Apothem
equivalent of 1 ampere of the inscribed circle to any one of the sides
second
the process of determining the value of certain
1.055 kJ/hr One btu/hr is equal to ______ kJ/hr Appraisal
property for specific reasons.
1.094 yard
Branch of mathematics dealing with integers
39.37 in One meter is equal to ______ Arithmetic
and computation
3.28 ft
sequence of numbers in which each term
1.34 hp
Arithmetic (except the first term is obtained from the
737.6 ft-lb/s
One kilowatt is equal to ______ progression previous by adding a constant known as the
238.9 cal/s
common difference.
3413 btu/hr
Authorized Grand total of the assets and operational
1.547 cfs One million gallons per day (mgd) is equal to
capital capability of a corporation
1.66 x 10^-24
the mass of a hydrogen atom Additional information of prospective bidders
g/atom
Bid bulletin on contract documents issued prior to bidding
15.85 gpm One liter per second is equal to _____ gpm date
2545 btu/hr Bilateral A market situation where there is one seller
550 ft-lb/s monopoly and one buyer
1 horsepower is equal to ____
178.1 cal/s
Bilateral A market situation where there are few sellers
746 watts
oligopoly and few buyers,
the standard acceleration due to gravity in the
32.2 fps^2 Book value The recorded current value of an asset
English unit
Worth of the property as shown in the
35.3 ft3
accounting records of an enterprise,Refers to
264.04 gal
One m3 is equal to ______ Book value cost of merchandise which excludes freight
9.81 kPa
and insurance costs, The worth of the property
1000 li
equals to the original cost less depreciation.
406.8 in. of
Breakeven no
water, 76 cm The total income equal the total operating cost
1 atm is equal to _____ gain loss
Hg, 01.3 Kpa,
14.7 psi Breakeven the output or sales at which is insufficient to
point equal operating cost
57.3 deg. value of 1 radian in degrees
Its is amount of energy needed to cool or heat 1
694 gpm One million gallons per day (mgd) is equal to ? Btu
lb of water by one degree F
90 deg An angle inscribe in a semi-circle is always
Capillary
The absorption of ink by blotting paper involves
Abscissa distance of a point from y-axis action
which phenomenon
phenomenon
The property of the body which measures its
Acceleration
resistance to change in motion. Capital gain An increase in the value of a capital asset
An index of short term paying ability, ratio of A formal organization of producers within an
Acid-test ratio current assets (exclusive of inventory) to the industry forming a perfect collusion purposely
Cartel
total current liabilities. formed to increase profit and block new
comers from the industry
Algebra It is the branch of mathematics which deals
The point through which the resultant of the Reduction in the level of national income and
Center of
distributed gravity force passes regardless of Deflation output usually accompanied by the fall in the
gravity
the orientation of the body in space general price level?
Any line segment joining a vertex of a triangle A prefix denoting a multiple of 10 times any of
Cevian Deka
to a point on the opposite side the physical units of the system international.
Chairman of The mass of the substance per unit volume,
Highest position in the corporation?
the Board Density The ratio of specific weight to acceleration of
gravity
Chord Aline segment joining two points on a circle
Deophantine It is an equation when the number of equations
Prime number obtained by reading digits
Clock prime Equation is less than the number of unknown
around an analog clock
The lessening of value of an asset due to the
the negotiation of wage rates, conditions of
Collective Depletion decrease in the quantity available preferring to
employment ,etc. by representatives
bargaining the natural resources
management
Decrease in the value of a physical property
Commutative
The statement “a+b = b+a” is a due to the passage of time, An artificial
law of addition
Depreciation expenses that spreads purchase price of an
Complex It is the sum of real and imaginary numbers asset or another property over number of
numbers which expressed in “x+yi years.
It is the interest for an interest period is Depreciation The present worth of all depreciation over the
Compound
calculated on the principal plus total amount of recovery economic life of the item
interest
interest accumulated in previous periods
The temperature to which the air must be
The reciprocal of bulk modulus of elasticity of Dew point cooled at constant temperature to produce
Compresibility
any fluid saturation.
Consumer Diamond Another name for rhombus
products or services that are directly used by
goods and
the people to satisfy their wants Differential
services Another name for derivative
coefficient
Heat transmission carried by the movement of
Those cost that arise at the result of a change
Convection heated fluids away from a hot body, as in the
Differential in operation or policy or it is the ratio of a
heating of water by a hot surface
cost small increment cost and a small increment of
Bond to which are attached coupons indicating output.
Coupon bond the interest due and the date when such
The process of one substance mixing with
interest is to be paid Diffusion
another because of molecular motion
Prime number that differs from another prime
Cousin prime When two planes intersect with each other, the
number by four
Dihedral angle amount of divergence between the two planes
covalent bond the strong bond between hydrogen atoms is expressed by measuring the
Current rate of charge flow The difference between what a negotiable
Liquid assets such as cash and other assets Discount paper is worth in the future and its present
Current worth
that can be converted quickly into cash, such as
assets
accounts receivable and merchandise Define as the future value minus the present
Discount
Cylindroid a cylinder with elliptical cross section value.

A type of bond, without any security behind A change in position, specified by a length and
Debenture Displacement
them except a promise to pay by the issuing a direction
bond
corporation The index that gives the rate earned per share
Dividend yield
Decagon Apolygon with ten side based on current price per share

Declining A situation whereby payment is made for work


Which of the following depreciation methods not done. The term also applies to the case
balance Downtime pay
cannot have a salvage value of zero? where more workers are used than a
method
reasonable requirement for efficient operation
It is a series of equal payments occurring at
Deferred equal interval of time where the first payment The equilibrium temperature that a regular
Dry bulb
annuity is made after several periods, after the thermometer measures if exposed to
temperature
beginning of the payment atmospheric
This implies the resistance to shock or
Ductility difficulty of breaking and expresses the work
per unit volume required to fracture a material
Any number expressed in place value notation Fluid is at rest Pascal Law is applicable when
Duodecimal
with the base 12
It is any influence capable of producing a
Force
A market situation where there are only two change in the motion of the object
Duopsony
buyers with many sellers,
Francis
Adraft tube is a must in
Dynamic The pressure difference measured at the two turbine
pressure ends of Pitot tube
It is a sequence of numbers, each of which
A net force that will give to a mass of one gram each, after the first is obtained by multiplying
Dyne Geometric
an acceleration of 1 cm/s2 the preceding term by a fixed number called
progression
the common ratio, known as the common
The length of time which the property may be
Economic life difference.
operated at a profit
Gigaa opposite of the prefix nano
The volume of the cube is equal to the cube of
Edge
the measure of its Gigantic prime prime number that exceeds 10,000
We may classify an interest rate which Kind of obligation which has no condition
Gratuitous
Effective rate specifies the actual rate of interest on the attached
principal for one year as?
The section of the sphere cut by a plane
Great circle
It occurs when a decrease in selling price through its center is termed as
Elastic
result in a greater than proportionate increase
demand Gross profit, sale less cost of good sold, as a
in sales. Gross margin
percentage of sales
The set of all points in the plane, the sum of
Harmonic It is a sequence of numbers in which the
Ellipse whose distances from two fixed points, called
progression reciprocals form an arithmetic progression
the foci, is a constant.
Head and flow A hydropower station is constructed because of
Ellipse eccentricity is less than one
the first person of whose systematic use of
equal to that
Hipparchus trigonometry which have documentary
of an object
If an object is thrown vertically upward, its evidence.
thrown
acceleration.
vertically Hold a supply For the flush tank type water closet, what is the
downward of water main purpose of the tank
Equilateral It is a triangle that all sides are equal An instrument for measuring specific gravity of
Hydrometer
fluids:
The provision in the contract that indicates the
Escalatory Hydropower
possible adjustment of material cost and labor
clause The highest overall efficiency is possible
cost. stations
Euclid father of plane geometry The set of all points in the plane, the difference
Hyperbola of whose distances from two fixed points,
Even Anumber that be exactly divided by two
called the foci, remains constant.
Explementary
Two angles whose sum is 360 deg A plane section cut from a right circular cone
angles
Hyperbola by a plane perpendicular to the base of the
The power to which a number is raised is cone is
Exponent
indicated by a small superior figure called?
The product of force and the time during which
Impulse
the process of expressing a polynomial as the it acts
Factoring product of another polynomial or monomial of
It occurs when a decrease in the selling price
lower degree. Inelastic
produces a less than proportionate increase in
demand
For ordinary annuity, what is the value for sales.
Fi / (1+ i)^ n - 1
periodic payment “A”
The property of a moving object to continue
Inertia
This is a number sequence where the moving is what Galileo called:
Fibonacci succeeding term is obtained by adding the last
amount needed at the beginning of operations
number pair of preceding terms such as sequence
Initial working and permits the enterprise to begin functioning
(1,1,2,3,5,8…) how do you call this numbe
capital before it receives any income from the sales of
First cost + its product and service
cost of
Capitalized cost of any property is equal to the Interest Money paid for the use of borrowed capital.
perpetual
maintenance The ratio of the interest payment to the
Interest rate principal for a given unit of time and usually
Lands, buildings, plant and machinery are
Fixed assets expressed as a percentage of the principal?
example of
Inversely The acceleration is ________ the mass of the
proportional object. required to support human life and activities
that will be purchased in somewhat the same
Is the number that cannot be expressed into
Irrational quantity even though the price varies
ratio of two integers
considerably,
number which could not be expressed as a
Irrational an entity describing the quantity or position of a
quotient of two integers
Number mathematical object or extensions of these
Isosceles concepts
It is a triangle with two sides equal.
triangle
Obeys
Its reciprocal Any number multiplied by _____ equals unity characteristic Aperfect gas is one which
An accounting book where the original record equation
Journal
of all transactions is ordinarily recorded An angles which are non-right and non straight
Oblique
The study of motion without reference to the which are acute and obtuse angles
Kinematics
forces which causes motion Oblique angles which are non-right and non straight
This law in electrical circuits states, “The angles such as acute angles and obtuse angles.
Kirchhoff’s
algebraic sum of currents entering a node (or a Oblique
current law It is a triangle without a 90 deg. angle
closed boundary) is zero”. triangle
This law in electrical circuits states, “The Obtuse An angle more than 90⁰ but less than 180⁰
Kirchoff’s
algebraic sum of all voltages around a closed
voltage law A condition where only few individuals produce
path (or loop) is zero”.
Oligopoly a certain product and that any action of one will
Kurtosis The degree of peakedness of a distribution. lead to almost the same action of others.
The chord passing through the focus of the Ordinal It refer to the position relative to an ordering
Latus rectum parabola and perpendicular to its axis is term numbers such as first, second, third etc
as:
A type of annuity where the payments are made
“When free competition exists the price of a
Ordinary
at the end of payment period starting from the
Law of supply annuity
product will be that value where supply is first period,
and demand
equal to the demand”
A space that is devoid of matter and which the
the integral of any quotient whose numerator is
Outer space
pressure is zero
Logarithm
the differential of the denominator
The set of all points in the plane whose
These are products or services that are desired distances from a fixed points, called the focus,
by human and will be purchase if money is
Parabola
and a fixed line, called the directrix, are always
Luxuries
available after the required necessities have equal.
been obtain,
If each two lines is perpendicular to the same
It is defined to the capacity of a commodity to
Parallel
line, then the lines are
Luxury
satisfy human want.
An association of two or more individuals for
Marginal The amount received from the sale of an Partnership the purpose of operating a business as co-
revenue additional unit of a product owners for profit,
The place where buyers and sellers come the replacement of the original cost of an
Market Pay off
together investment
It is the amount which a willing buyer will pay Pelton wheel Cavitation cannot occur in
to willing seller for a property where each has
Market value Pentadecagon Apolygon with 15 sides
equal advantage and is under no compulsion to
buy or sell Pentagram A5-pointed star is also known as
This is the measure of central tendency defined This occurs in a situation where a commodity
Mode
as the most frequent score. Perfect or service is supplied by a number of vendor by
competition a number of vendors and there is nothing to
If two bodies of different masses, initially at
prevent additional vendors entering the market
rest, are acted upon by the same force for the
Momentum
same time, then what will be the same in both It is an ordered arrangement of any element in
Permutation
bodies a set.
A market situation where there is one seller Perpendicular
Monopoly The normal to a given plane is:
with many buyer to the plane
A market whereby there is only one buyer of an A skew polygon such that every two
Monopsony
item for which there are no goods substitute Petrie polygon consecutive sides belong to a face of a regular
polyhedron.
Necessities These are products or services that are
Consist of the actual counting or determination and if the two sides of one triangle are
Physical
of the actual quantity of the materials on hand proportional to two sides of the other, they are
inventory
as of a given date. what kind of triangles
Piezometer It is calculated using principal only, ignoring
Sum of pressure head and elevation Simple
head any interest that had been accrued in preceding
interest
periods.
This is a point where the concavity of a curve
Point of
changes or when the slope of the curve is Simple
inflection The actual interest earned by a given principal
neither increasing nor decreasing. interest
Pole pitch The space on the stator allocated to one pole. An interest-earning fund in which equal
deposits are made at equal intervals of time for
power
Sinking Fund the purpose of gradually accumulating a
delivered by
Brake horsepower is _____ specific sum of money required at some future
the motor to
date.
the pump.
The method of depreciation where a fixed sum
Adding more solute to an already saturated
of money is regularly deposited at compound
Precipitation solution will cause the excess solute to settle
Sinking fund interest in a real or imaginary fund in order to
to the bottom of the container.
method accumulate an amount equal to the total
Direct labor cost incurred in the factory and depreciation of an asset at the end of the
direct material costs of all materials that go asset’s estimated life
Prime cost
into production. The sum of these two direct
Solid the study of the properties of figures of three
cost is known as
geometry dimensions
Is any positive integer (excluding 1) having no
Prime number Specific
integral factors other than itself and unity The reciprocal of density
volume
Type of ownership in business here individuals
Specific
Private exercise and enjoy the right in their own The weight of the substance per unit volume
weight
interest.
formula used to compute the value of n
Producer Stirling’s
These are uses to produce consumer good and factorial, which is in symbolic form(!), where n
goods and approximation
services is large number
services
The equation y = a1 + a2x is an algebraic
sequence of numbers or quantities in which Straight line
expression for which of the following choices?
Progression there is always the same relation between
each quantity and the one succeeding it A method of depreciation whereby the amount
Straight line to recover is spread over the estimated life of
Prostaphaere Trigonometry formulas that convert a product
method the asset in terms of the periods or units of
sis formulas of functions into a sum or difference
output
An instrument for measuring high temperature
Pyrometer When a solid (ice and snow) changes into water
gases
Sublimation vapor (gas) without moving through the liquid
type of bond where the corporation’s owner phase, the process is called
Registered name is recorded and the interest is paid
The quantity of a certain commodity that is
bond periodically to the owners with their asking for
Supply offered for sale at a certain price at a given
it
place and time.
Return of The ratio of the net income to the owners equity
Surface A leak from a faucet comes out in separate
investment is known as
tension drops.
Root Afactor repeated to produce a power is
Refers to the vertical speed at which the force
Salvage value Scrap value of an asset is sometimes known as
Terminal
of air resistance is just sufficient to the balance
speed
What is the estimate of assets net market value the body’s weight.
Salvage value
at the end of its estimated life? actual geometric shape of the methane
Tetrahedral
Salvage value Estimated value at the end of the useful life. molecule

Scalene triangle having unequal sides “the volume of a circular cylinder is equal to
Theorem
the product of its base and altitude
Scalene
It is a triangle with no equal sides They contain
Triangle
free electrons,
Siemens SI unit of conductance atoms are
Why metals are good conductors of electricity
Similar For any two triangles, if an angle of one lightly packed,
triangles is congruent to an angle of the other have high
melting point
rng shaped surface or solid obtained by
Torus rotating a circle about a coplanar line that does
not intersect?
Transverse the axis of the hyperbola that passes through
axis the center, the foci and vertices
Trivial
roots of an equation are zero
solution
Unitary
It occurs when the mathematical product of
elasticity of
volume and price is constant.
demand
valence
The outer-shell electrons.
electrons
Vapour
The fluid property which contributes cavitation
pressure
Two angles having the same vertex and the
Vertical angle
side of one is the prolongation of the side
Vertical Are opposite angles formed between two
angles intersecting lines that are equal
energy required to move 1 coulomb of charge
Voltage
through an element
Let a thin capillary tube be replaced with
Will not rise another tube of insufficient length then, what
will happen to water
term for the combined efficiency of a pump and
Wire-to-water
motor that is obtained by multiplying the pump
efficiency
efficiency by the motor efficiency
Working Those funds that are required to make the
capital enterprise or project a going concern
The length of time at which the original cost of
Write off
capital used to purchase a unit has already
period
been recovered.

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