Glossary
Terms starting with I
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- INSURANCE POOL
- A group of insurance companies that pool assets, enabling them to provide an amount of insurance substantially more than can be provided by individual companies to ensure large risks such as nuclear power stations. Pools may be formed voluntarily or mandated…
- INSURANCE REGULATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM IRIS
- Uses financial ratios to measure insurers’ financial strength. Developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Each individual state insurance department chooses how to use IRIS.
- INSURANCE SCORE
- Insurance scores are confidential rankings based on credit information. This includes whether the consumer has made timely payments on loans, the number of open credit card accounts and whether a bankruptcy filing has been made. An insurance score is a…
- INSURANCE-TO-VALUE
- Insurance written in an amount approximating the value of the insured property.
- INTEGRATED BENEFITS
- Coverage where the distinction between job-related and non-occupational illnesses or injuries is eliminated and workers compensation and general health coverage are combined. Legal obstacles exist, however, because the two coverages are administered…
- INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING PRINCIPLES
- The underlying principles of IRP can be distinguished from the formal process of developing an approved utility resource plan for utility investments in supply- and demand-side resources. A primary principle is to provide a framework for comparing a variety…
- INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING(IRP)
- A public planning process and framework within which the costs and benefits of both demand- and supply-side resources are evaluated to develop the least-total-cost mix of utility resource options. In many states, IRP includes a means for considering…
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual property is a property right recognized by the law in the products of human creativity. Intellectual property can consist of a book, a poem, a song, or any other kind of valuable idea, design, etc., such that the intellectual property can be…
- INTELSAT
- International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
- INTER-OFFICE CALL
- A telephone call originating in one central office but terminating in another central office, both of which are in the same designated exchange area.
- interacting galaxies
- galaxies caught in each other’s gravitational embrace, often results in galactic mergers or extreme star formation
- Interaction
- A process in which a particle decays or it responds to a force due to the presence of another particle (as in a collision). The four fundamental interactions are gravitational, electromagnetic, strong, and weak.
- Interactive Multi-Plot Movies
- These offer the potential for full-motion interactive video adventure games. These films have enough space on the DVD to offer different directions for plot development and endings, according to choices made by the viewer.
- intercalary heterochromatin
- Heterochromatin, other than centromeric heterochromatin, dispersed throughout eukaryotic chromosomes.
- intercalating agent
- A chemical that can insert itself between the stacked bases at the centre of the DNA double helix, possibly causing a frameshift mutation.
- INTERCHANGE (Electric utility)
- The agreement among interconnected utilities under which they buy, sell and exchange power among themselves. This can, for example, provide for economy energy and emergency power supplies.
- interchromosomal recombination
- Recombination resulting from independent assortment.
- Intercom Two-way paging
- The cordless phone doubles as a two-way intercom system. Found on speakerphone models, this feature allows for conversation between the handset and base station. Two-way paging allows the handset user and the base user to alert each other by pressing a…
- INTERCONNECTION (Electric utility)
- The linkage of transmission lines between two utilities, enabling power to be moved in either direction. Interconnections allow the utilities to help contain costs while enhancing system reliability.
- INTERESTED PARTY
- any person whom the commission finds and acknowledges as having a real and direct interest in any proceeding or action carried on, under, or as a result of the operation of, this division.
- INTEREXCHANGE (LONG DISTANCE) COMPANY (IXC)
- Any telephone company, as defined in Section 364.02(12), F.S. (excluding Payphone Providers), which provides telecommunications service between local calling areas as described in the approved tariffs of individual local exchange companies (LECs).
- interference
- A measure of the independence of crossover events from each other, calculated by subtracting the coefficient of coincidence from 1.
- interference competition
- A form of competition that involves a fight or other active interaction among organisms.
- interference fringes
- a wave-like pattern resulting from the successful combination of two beams of light which amplifies the light
- interferometer
- a system of two or more widely separated telescopes that achieves the resolving power of a much larger telescope
- interferometric fringes
- a wave-like pattern resulting from the successful combination of two beams of light which amplifies the light
- interferometry
- the technique of using two or more widely separated telescopes to achieve the resolving power of a much larger telescope
- intergalactic
- the space between the galaxies
- intergenic suppression
- A mutation at a second locus that apparently restores the wild-type phenotype to a mutation at a first locus.
- interkinesis
- The abbreviated interphase that occurs between meiosis I and II. No DNA replication occurs here.
- INTERMEDIATION
- The process of bringing savers, investors and borrowers together so that savers and investors can obtain a return on their money and borrowers can use the money to finance their purchases or projects through loans.
- intermedio
- In the Renaissance, a musical entertainment between the acts of a play.
- intermission length Hi-Lo
- An intermission-length gown features a hem falling between the knees and ankle; the Hi-Lo variation is a gown of intermission length on the front and floor length or longer in the back.
- INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
- An engine in which fuel is burned inside the engine. A car's gasoline engine or rotary engine is an example of a internal combustion engine. It differs from engines having an external furnace, such as a steam engine.
- International Space Station
- a global cooperative program between the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, and Europe, for the joint development, operation, and utilization of a permanently habitated space station in low-Earth orbit
- Internet
- Not to be confused with internet (with lowercase i). The word Internet refers to all the computer networks worldwide that are connected together. TCP/IP is the de facto standard protocol set for Internet.
- Internet backbone
- An extremely fast network that connects major cities. Most often it utilizes T3 circuits and provides the bandwidth of 45Mbps.
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
- A network control protocol running on top of the IP protocol. It is used by Internet hosts to maintain information related to multicast. All machines that want to use the multicast have to have the IGMP implemented.
- INTERNET INSURER
- An insurer that sells exclusively via the Internet.
- INTERNET LIABILITY INSURANCE
- Coverage designed to protect businesses from liabilities that arise from the conducting of business over the Internet, including copyright infringement, defamation, and violation of privacy.
- InterNIC
- The organization that handles domain name registrations. See http://www.internic.net/
- Internships
- Involves students working in their chosen career field during a semester or during the summer. An internship gives valuable work experience and allows the job seeker to produce employment based references. Employers are more likely to employ a job seeker…
- interphase
- The cell cycle stage between nuclear divisions, when chromosomes are extended and functionally active. The metabolically active non-dividing stage of the cell cycle.
- interplanetary
- the space between the planets
- interpretation
- The manner in which a performer carries out a composer's performance directions.
- interrupted mating
- A technique used to map bacterial genes by determining the sequence in which donor genes enter recipient cells. A gene mapping technique in which bacterial conjugation is disrupted after specified time intervals.
- INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE (Electric utility)
- Electricity supplied under agreements that allow the supplier to curtail or stop service at times.
- intersex
- An organism with external sexual characteristics that have attributes of both sexes.
- interstellar
- the space between the stars of a galaxy
- interstellar medium
- the gas and dust located between the stars
- interstitial region
- The chromosomal region between the centromere and the site of a rearrangement.
- INTERTIE
- A transmission line that links two or more regional electric power systems.
- interval
- The acoustical distance between two pitches, usually reckoned by the number of intervening scale degrees.
- Interviewing Skills
- It's vital that any job seeker works on improving his or her interviewing skills as, regardless of the strength of a resume, the interview is what will ultimately land the job. Always remember that: First impressions are vital The interviewer is likely to…
- intra-allelic complementation
- The restoration of activity or partial activity (complementation) to an enzyme made of identical subunits (polypeptides encoded by one gene) in a heterozygote of two different mutant alleles of that gene.
- INTRA-OFFICE CALL
- A telephone call originating and terminating within the same central office.
- INTRA-STATE TOLL MESSAGE
- Toll messages which originate and terminate within Florida.
- intrachromosomal recombination
- Recombination resulting from crossing over between two linked gene pairs.
- intragenic suppression
- A second mutation within a mutant gene that results in an apparent restoration of the original phenotype.
- Intranet
- A part of an organization's network that is private. Only authorized individuals have access to the intranet. Besides that an intranet is very similar to the Internet in a sense that it offers the same services and uses the same protocols.