Sentence examples for notional unit from inspiring English sources

Ecu, abbreviation of European currency unit, a notional unit of exchange, conceived in 1979, based on a "basket," or weighted combination, of the currencies of nations that belonged to the European Economic Community EECC; ultimately replaced by the European Union).

The cell lengths of the P4/ mbm cell are given by √2 ap × √2 ap × 2 ap (where ap is the notional perovskite unit cell length).

Risk ratios comparing a notional geographic unit lying on the 97.5th centile with that of an area lying on the 2.5th centile were also used to quantify the geographic variation.

An alternative, more meaningful, approach to quantifying the variance terms at the higher geographical levels in the model is to calculate a risk ratio which compares a notional geographic unit lying on the 97.5th centile, say, with that of an area on the 2.5th centile.

To put these values into context, a within-country standard deviation of 0.07 (the country with the lowest degree of inequality between regions) is roughly equivalent to the standardised mortality ratio of a notional geographic unit lying on the 95th centile being 26% higher than that of a region on the 5th centile.

All five methods (Table 1) were based on selection, or likelihood of selection, of planning units as notional conservation areas to complement established reserves.

Commonly these are R 0, the notional length of a bond of unit valence, and b, the softness parameter (see section 7.3).

Moving this notional Li+ ion systematically through all points in the unit cell generates a valence map in which any point on the map having a value of 1.0 vu represents a possible location for Li+.

WALL STREET JOURNAL Morgan Stanley Makes Trades in Shrinking Derivatives Unit  |  Morgan Stanley bought credit positions with a notional value of more than $50 billion over the last three years, despite plans to shrink its derivatives business.

At the end of 2002, AIG's Financial Products unit had $14.9 billion in risk related to credit derivatives and a notional amount in its credit-derivative portfolio of $126 billion.

A.I.G. also said that it had finished an "active wind-down" of its financial products division, the unit whose derivatives contracts tied to subprime mortgages — a portfolio with a notional value of more than $1.6 trillion at one point — led to the company's near-downfall.