Technology arrangement organizing computers and application software into two categories, clients, and servers. This arrangement engages available computing resources to shares data processing loads more efficiently. A client computer, like […]
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CLIENT-SERVER ENVIRONMENT
Same meaning as client-server architecture .
CLIENTELA
In old English law . Cli- entship, the state of a client; and, correlative ^, protection, patronage, guardianship .
CLIFFORD TRUST
US living trust set up for a period longer than ten years. the trust terminates at the end of the period, and the trust property , typically income producing assets, […]
CLIFFORD’S INN
An Inn of chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY
CLIMATE
Classification of the long-term weather in a specific area. General weather pattern over a significantly large area of earth’s surface. This weather’s average conditions covering a period of 30 to […]
CLINTONOMICS
Former President Bill Clinton established these policies concerning the US economy during 1993-2001. Monetary and fiscal strategies are the subjects of these policies. Low interest rates, rapid growth of the […]
CLIPART
Art, designs, graphics, and photographs bundled and ready-made with most illustration software packages or even with word procedures. It can be purchased in albums on CDs, or can be downloaded […]
CLIPPER CHIP
Designed by the US government, it is a stealth chip. Proposed by the US government to be installed in all data communication devices as a national security measure. How this […]
CLIQUET OPTION
An OVERTHECOUNTER COMPLEX OPTION that allows the buyer to lock in gains at prespecified evaluation intervals if the option is INTHEMONEY at such points; gains are not relinquished if the […]
CLITO IN SAXON LAW
The son of a king or emperor. The next heir to the throne; the Saxon adeling. Spelman
CLOCK SPEED
Speed of a computer to traverse a number of evenly-spaced pulses generated by a computer’s clock to regulate the switching task of the circuits. Measured in megahertz (MHz) or gigahertz […]
CLOERE
A gaol; a prison or dungeon
CLONE FUND
Mutual fund generated to act like another mutual fund that has grown too big to take additional positions in the market for smaller securities. The clone fund typically follows the […]
CLOSE
1. To complete a deal, discussion, negotiation , or sales presentation . 2. Same meaning as closing price (Definition 2).
CLOSE AND OPEN
A “close” corporation is one in which the directors and officers have the power to fill vacancies in their own number, without allowing to the general body of stockholders any […]
CLOSE COPIES
Copies of legal documents which might be written closely or loosely at pleasure; as distinguished from office copies, which were to contain only a prescribed number of words on each […]
CLOSE CORPORATION
One in which the directors and officers have the power to fill vacancies in their own number, without allowing to the general body of stockholders any choice or vote in […]
CLOSE MARKET
Narrow profit margins or spread characterized this market. Contrast to wide market .
CLOSE PERIOD
The finalizing balance sheet and the firm’s announcement of results to the public is this time period . The time period is typically two months preceding an announcement. Insiders are […]
CLOSE ROLLS
Bolls containing the record of the close writs (Uteris clausw) and grants of the king, kept with the public records. 2 Bl. Comm. 346
CLOSE SEASON
In game and fish laws, this term means the season of the year in which the taking of particular game or fish is prohibited, or in which all hunting or […]
CLOSE TO THE MONEY
Option contract whose exercise price and market price of the underlying asset is essentially the same.
CLOSE WRITS
In English law . Certain letters of the king, sealed with his great seal, and directed to particular persons and for particular purposes, which, not being proper for public inspection […]
CLOSE-HAULED
In admiralty law , this nautical term means the arrangement or trim of a vessel’s sails when she endeavors to make a progress in the nearest direction possible towards that […]