transaction — trans·ac·tion /tran zak shən, sak / n 1: something transacted; esp: an exchange or transfer of goods, services, or funds 2 a: an act, process, or instance of transacting b: an action or activity involving two parties or things that reciprocally… … Law dictionary
open interest — The total number of futures or options contracts of a given commodity that have not yet been offset by an opposite futures or option transaction nor fulfilled by delivery of the commodity or option exercise. Each open transaction has a buyer and… … Financial and business terms
Open XML Paper Specification — (OpenXPS) Filename extension .oxps, .xps Internet media type application/oxps, application/vnd.ms xpsdocument Developed by Micro … Wikipedia
Open Buy Back — Open Buy Back, OBB, is a discountable securities traded in the Nigerian Inter Bank financial market. An Open Buy Back is a money market instrument used to raise short term capital. It is a form of borrowing using Nigerian Government Securities as … Wikipedia
open court — n 1: a recorded judicial proceeding that is presided over by a judge and attended by the parties and their attorneys and that is convened for the purpose of conducting official business compare in camera 2: a session of a court that is open to… … Law dictionary
Transaction Processing over XML — (TPoX) is a computing benchmark for XML database systems. As a benchmark, TPoX is used for the performance testing of database management systems that are capable of storing, searching and retrieving XML data. The goal of TPoX is to allow… … Wikipedia
Open interest — (also known as open contracts or open commitments) refers to the total number of derivative contracts, like futures and options, that have not been settled in the immediately previous time period for a specific underlying security. A large open… … Wikipedia
Open business — represents a concept of doing business in a transparent way by intimately integrating an ecosystem of participants, collaborating in public space. Open business structures make contributors and non contributors visible such that the business… … Wikipedia
Open peer review — describes a scientific literature concept and process, central to which is the various transparency and disclosure of the identities of those reviewing scientific publications. The concept thus represents a departure from, and an alternative to,… … Wikipedia
Transaction time — (TT) is a concept used in temporal databases. It denotes the time period during which a database fact is/was stored in the database. In a database table transaction time is often represented by two extra table columns StartTT and EndTT . The time … Wikipedia
Open innovation intermediary — Open innovation intermediaries as described by Henry Chesbrough in his 2006 book Open Business Models are companies that help other companies implement various facets of open innovation .[1] The presence of these firms enables other companies to… … Wikipedia