Spot welding — is a type of resistance welding used to weld various sheet metal products. Typically the sheets are in the 0.5 3.0 mm thickness range. The process uses two shaped copper alloy electrodes to concentrate welding current into a small spot and to… … Wikipedia
Spot-future parity — (or spot futures parity) is a parity condition that should theoretically hold, or opportunities for arbitrage exist. Spot future parity is an application of the law of one price. In plain English, if I can purchase a good today for price S and… … Wikipedia
Spot price — The spot price or spot rate of a commodity, a security or a currency is the price that is quoted for immediate (spot) settlement (payment and delivery). Spot settlement is normally one or two business days from trade date. This is in contrast… … Wikipedia
Spot Price — The current price at which a particular security can be bought or sold at a specified time and place. A security s spot price is regarded as the explicit value of the security at any given time in the marketplace. In contrast, a securities… … Investment dictionary
spot rot — noun 1. : jonathan spot 2. : a general decay of apples in cold storage caused by a fungus (Botrytis cinerea) and characterized by brown spots each centering at a lenticel … Useful english dictionary
Cherry-red spot — A cherry red spot is a finding in the macula of the eye in a variety of lipid storage disorders and in central retinal artery occlusion.[1] It describes the appearance of a small circular choroid shape as seen through the fovea centralis. [2] Its … Wikipedia
Energy storage — is the storing of some form of energy that can be drawn upon at a later time to perform some useful operation. A device that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator. All forms of energy are either potential energy (eg. chemical,… … Wikipedia
Grid energy storage — is used to manage the flow of electrical energy. For large scale load levelling on an interconnected electrical system, electric energy producers send low value off peak excess electricity over the electricity transmission grid to temporary… … Wikipedia
3D optical data storage — is the term given to any form of optical data storage in which information can be recorded and/or read with three dimensional resolution (as opposed to the two dimensional resolution afforded, for example, by CD). [ Three Dimensional Optical Data … Wikipedia
USS Spot (SS-413) — Career (United States) … Wikipedia