See Also: Compound Annual Return(money)
Compound Annual Growth Rate(money)
Annual rate of return(money)
Annual rate of return(finance)
Annual Exclusion (or Annual Per Grantee Gift Tax Exclusion)(law)
Annual(medicine)
annual(encyclopedia)
Annual(money)
annual(dictionary)
mean annual increment(medicine)

neutron (iou) and Compound Annual Return (money)


neutron (iou)



neutron noun. E20.
[from NEUTRAL adjective + -ON.]
Physics. An electrically uncharged subatomic particle of slightly greater mass than the proton, which is a constituent (with the proton) of all atomic nuclei except that of the common isotope of hydrogen.
fast neutron, photoneutron, slow neutron, thermal neutron, etc.
Comb.: neutron activation the process of making a substance radioactive by irradiating it with neutrons; neutron bomb a kind of atomic bomb producing large numbers of neutrons but little blast, and consequently harmful to life but not destructive of property; neutron capture the absorption of a neutron by an atomic nucleus; neutron diffraction: of a beam of neutrons; neutron excess the excess of the number of neutrons in an atomic nucleus over the number of protons; neutron number the mass number of a nucleus minus its atomic number, taken as being the number of neutrons it contains; neutron radiography: employing a beam of neutrons; neutron star Astronomy an extremely small dense star composed predominantly of closely packed neutrons and thought to form by the collapse of a star under its own gravity (cf. PULSAR); neutron therapy Medicine radiation therapy employing a beam of neutrons.
neu'tronic adjective of, pertaining to, or employing neutrons M20.

Compound Annual Return (money)


Definition: [crh] See: Compound Annual Growth Rate