Health / Disease / Reference Dose (Rfd): An EPA estimate, with uncertainty or safety factors built in, of the daily lifetime dose of a substance that is unlikely to cause harm in humans.
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Dose Noun Synonyms: dispense, administer, prescribe
Dose Adjective Synonyms: portion, quantity, amount, measure, dosage
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Reference Verb Synonyms: allusion, mention, remark, referral, direction, indication, specification, naming, quotation, citation, note, notation, notification, hint, intimation, innuendo, insinuation
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Business / Accounting / Preference Shares: This is a type of share issued by a limited company. It carries a medium risk but has the advantage over ordinary shares in that preference shareholders get the first slice of the dividend 'pie' (but MORE
Business / Finance / Preference Stock: A security that ranks junior to preferred stock but senior to common stock in the right to receive payments from the firm; essentially junior preferred stock. MORE
Technology / Email / Preferences: Options a user can set to determine how they want to receive your messages, how they want to be addresses, to which email address message should go and which messages they want to receive from you. Th MORE
Business / Finance / Preference: Refers to over-the-counter trading. Selection of a dealer to handle a trade despite the dealer's market not being the best available. Often the 'preferenced dealer' will then move his market in line. MORE
Technology / Computers / OSI Reference Model: (Open Systems Interconnect) A network communications software standard that consists of a seven layer structure of specified protocol and services. MORE
Business / Agriculture / Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD): Loosely, the highest dose of a chemical that when administered to a group of test animals does not increase the death rate during a long-term study. The purpose of administering MTD is to determine wh MORE