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Position
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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.
position
The ownership status of a person's or an institution's investments. For example, a person may own 500 shares of Sun Microsystems, 350 shares of Boeing, and a $10,000 principal amount of 9% bonds due in 2001. See also long position, short position.
position
To buy or sell securities in order to establish a net long or a net short position. Also called take a position.
Position
The state of owning or owing a security or other asset. One has a long position when one owns something, while one has a short position when something is sold, especially sold short. See also: Close a position.


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Guided by such measurements, the axial position of the grating stage was adjusted to make the plane of maximum pattern modulation (see Fig.
Three-Dimensional Resolution Doubling in Wide-Field Fluorescence ... by Mats G L Gustafsson and Lin Shao and Peter M Carlton and C J Rachel Wang and Inna N Golubovskaya and / Biophysical Journal
Angle-resolved axial mean flow and turbulence characteristics were successfully performed with high spatial and temporal resolution inside the working chamber of the male rotor of a screw compressor using laser Doppler velocimetry at different radial and axial positions and at operating rotor speeds of 750 and 1000 rpm.
Axial flow characteristics within a screw compressor by Nouri, Jamshid M.; Guerrato, Diego; Stosic, Nikola; Arcoumanis, Constantine / HVAC & R Research
In precision grinder drives or other applications such as certain types of pumps requiring axial position of the motor shaft to be closely held, a restrained bearing assembly is used.
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