Entertainment / Literature / Eth: (also spelled edh) A letter in the Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and modern Icelandic alphabet. As a capital letter, it is written as a capital 'D' with a horizontal line across the left edge of the D, often called a 'crossed D.' As a lower-case letter, it is written as a curving lower-case d with a horizontal line midway across the vertical stroke. The letter eth represented the interdental fricative sound found in words like then, and it contrasts with the letter thorn, which represents the sound found in words like thin. In modern English, we use the digraph
Science / Chemistry / Ethyl: A molecular fragment produced by removing a hydrogen atom from ethane (CH3-CH3). For example, ethyl chloride is CH3-CH2-Cl. MORE
Business / Real Estate / Quantity-Survey Method: The appraisal method of estimating building costs by calculating the cost of all of the physical components in the improvements, adding the cost to assemble them and then including the indirect costs MORE
Business / Finance / Adjusted Balance Method: Method of calculating finance charges that uses the account balance remaining after adjusting for all transactions posted during the given billing period as its basis. Related: Average daily balance m MORE