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Scale

Payment of different rates of interest on CDs of varying maturities. A bank is said to "post a scale." Commercial paper dealers also post scales.

Scale

The range of prices at which an underwriter offers to place with investors a serial bond, where the individual bonds have different maturities.

scale

The schedule of yields (or prices) at which a serial bond issue is offered to the public by the underwriter. The schedule reflects yields at the various maturities being offered. Also called offering scale. See also inverted scale, preliminary scale.

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scale

The relationship between measurements on a plan or map and the dimensions of the physical object represented.One inch might represent 10 feet or 10 miles.Topographic maps contain two scales,one for distance and one for change in elevation.

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Bud scales and leaf apices, features traditionally used to separate taxa, are variable and the differences slight, as is seen in Figure 7.

Taxaceae: the genera and cultivates species

The number of mites per bud was determined by dissecting the stained buds and counting individual mites of all life stages (excluding the eggs) on the inside of the bud scales with the aid of a dissecting microscope at X63.

Epizootic of Acalitus vaccinii (Acari: eriophyidea) caused by Hirsutella thompsonii on southern highbush blueberry in north-central Florida

Color of pubescence on bud scales conflicts with keys for identifying species of Dirca (Thymelaeaceae).

Phenotypic and genotypic diversity of eastern leatherwood in five populations that span its geographic distribution

Budbreak was regarded when a green tinge was seen beneath the bud scales; this evaluation was performed weekly.

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