instability index of earnings — A measure of the deviation between actual profits of a company and trend profit. The higher the index, the greater the instability of a company s profitability … Accounting dictionary
instability — index doubt (indecision), fault (weakness), frailty, inconsistency, indecision, jeopardy, risk … Law dictionary
instability of mental powers — index lunacy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Index of Economic Freedom 2003-2006 — The Index of Economic Freedom 2003 2006 rankings show the historical development of Economic Freedom as gauged annually by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. [cite web url=http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries… … Wikipedia
mental instability — index insanity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Convective instability — For a more general discussion of the same phenomenon, see Convective available potential energy. This article incorporates public domain text created by the US government. In meteorology, convective instability or stability of an airmass refers… … Wikipedia
Modulational instability — In the field of nonlinear optics, modulational instability is a phenomenon whereby deviations from an optical waveform are reinforced by nonlinearity, leading to the generation of spectral sidebands and the eventual breakup of the waveform into a … Wikipedia
Atmospheric instability — is a condition where the atmosphere is generally considered to be unstable and as a result the weather is subject to a high degree of variability through distance and time [ [http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/Weather/Older/Stability of Air.html… … Wikipedia
Plateau-Rayleigh instability — The Plateau Rayleigh instability, often just called the Rayleigh instability , explains why and how a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets with the same volume but less surface area. It is related to the Rayleigh–Taylor… … Wikipedia
Lifted index — The lifted index (LI) is the temperature difference between an air parcel lifted adiabatically Tp(p) and the temperature of the environment Te(p) at a given pressure height in the troposphere (lowest layer where most weather occurs) of the… … Wikipedia