Disco

Entertainment / Music / Disco: Commercial dance music popular in the 1970s, characterized by strong percussion in a quadruple meter.
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Discounted Basis

Business / Finance / Discounted Basis: The yield or annual interest rate on a security sold to an investor at a discount. A bond that is sold at $4875 that matures to $5000 has a discount of $125. To calculate the discount yield: (discount MORE

Discounted Cash Flow

Business / Real Estate / Discounted Cash Flow: Used in measuring the return from a real estate investment, the present value of a future income stream as determined by a given discount rate. MORE

Discount Points

Business / Real Estate / Discount Points: An added loan fee charged by a lender to make the yield on a lower-than-market-interest VA or FHA loan competitive with higher-interest conventional loans. One discount point is equal to 1 percent of MORE

Discounting

Business / Finance / Discounting: An investment decision rule in which cash flows are discounted at an interest rate and one determines how long it takes for the sum of the discounted cash flows to equal the initial investment. MORE

Discovery Space

Entertainment / Literature / Discovery Space: According to Stephen Greenblatt, this is 'A central opening or alcove concealed behind a curtain in the center of the frons scenae. The curtain could be drawn aside to 'discover' tableaux such as Port MORE

Discount Point

Business / Taxes / Discount Point: Some lenders require you to prepay a portion of the interest due on your mortgage as a condition of approving the loan. They set the amount due at one or more discount points, with each discount point MORE