Statistical Terms Glossary

See statement of changes in financial position.

See hot money.

Narrow ditch made by cultivation implements between rows of crops.

A method similar to corrugation irrigation used in permeable soils. It consists in feeding narrow furrows very close to one another with small discharges so as to wet more easily all the soil situated between two rows of crops (often orchards). Furrows parallel to the rows may be laid mechanically with a drill plough.

An agreement to take or make delivery of a specific commodity or instrument on a particular date. See also financial futures contract.

A put or call option on a futures contract.

See forward rate agreement.

Agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of commodity
see financial futures; interest rate futures; stock index future; swap future

A futures contract is an agreement between two parties to exchange a real asset for a financial asset, or to exchange, on a specified date at predetermined rate, two financial assets.
Traded financial futures, including those for interest rates, currencies, commodities, equities, or other indices, are recorded in the financial account in a similar manner to options

Futures contracts are forward contracts traded on organised exchanges

Market where futures contracts are bought and sold.

See financial futures.

A box of wire mesh, filled with stones. Gabions may be laid in courses like large bricks to form bank revetment, etc.

Species belonging to the order Perciformes including several related families.

The sensitivity of an option's delta to small unit changes in the price of the underlying.

Gamma radiation is a type of radiation comprising true rays of energy, in contrast to alpha and beta radiation’s. Its properties are similar to those of X—rays and other electromagnetic waves. It comprises the most penetrating waves of radiant nuclear energy but can be blocked by dense materials such as lead

An overhead crane comprising a horizontal gantry mounted on legs, which are either fixed, run in fixed tracks or on rubber tyres with relatively limited maneuverability. The load can be moved horizontally, vertically and sideways. Such cranes normally straddle a road/rail and/or ship/shore interchange.

Amount of financing needed for which provision has not yet been made.

Analysis of interest rates in order to manage interest rate margins to improve liquidity. The French sensibly used the English word.

Garden-based learning can be defined simply as an instructional strategy that utilizes a garden as a teaching tool. The pedagogy is based on experiential education, which is applied in the living laboratory of the garden. It overlooks the relationship of these experiences to educational reform and to the transformation of contemporary basic education from a sedentary, sterile experience to one that is more engaging of the whole child.

Gas/diesel oil includes heavy gas oils. Gas oils are obtained from the lowest fraction from atmospheric distillation of crude oil, while heavy gas oils are obtained by vacuum redistillation of the residual from atmospheric distillation.

Biogas is derived principally from the anaerobic fermentation of biomass and solid wastes and combusted to produce heat and/or power. Included in this category are landfill gas and sludge gas (sewage gas and gas from animal slurries) and other biogas. Liquid biomass, which includes bio-additives such as ethanol, is also included in this category.

Gas coke is a by-product of hard coal used for the production of town gas in gas works. Gas coke is used for heating purposes.

Gas flaring is a combustion device to burn associated, unwanted or excess gases and liquids released during normal or unplanned over-pressuring operation in many industrial processes, such as oil-gas extraction, refineries, chemical plants, coal industry and landfill.