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Approximate, the word 'approximate', does not occur in every item of the charities only shows that the persons responsible for paying moneys for the charities had a discretion to vary the amount mentioned slightly. That have been because the charities were not very clearly defined and because the acts constituting them were not rigidly fixed , M.R. Goda Rao Sahib v. State of Madras, AIR 1966 SC 653: (1966) 1 SCR 643. [T.N. Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951 (51 of 1951), s. 32]...
asset
asset [back-formation from assets, singular, sufficient property to pay debts and legacies, from Anglo-French asetz, from Old French asez enough] 1 : the entire property of a person, business organization, or estate that is subject to the payment of debts used in pl. compare equity 2 : an item of property owned admitted asset : an asset allowed by law to be included in determining the financial condition of an insurance company compare nonadmitted asset in this entry appointive asset : an asset in an estate that is to be distributed under a power of appointment capital asset : a tangible or intangible long-term asset esp. that is not regularly bought or sold as part of the owner's business ;specif : any asset classified as a capital asset by law (as section 1221 of the Internal Revenue Code) cur·rent asset : a short-term asset (as inventory, an account receivable, or a note) that can be quickly converted into cash equitable asset : an asset esp. in an estate that is sub...
Caryophyllales
an order of plants which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae...
Caryophyllidae
a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or free central placentation and trinucleate pollen binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants it contains 14 families including Caryophyllaceae carnations and pinks Aizoaceae Amaranthaceae Batidaceae Chenopodiaceae Cactaceae order Opuntiales Nyctaginaceae Phytolaccaceae it corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales it is sometimes classified as a superorder...
Centrospermae
used in former classification systems approximately synonymous with order Caryophyllales...
Chenopodiales
an order which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae...
circa
Approximately about commonly abbreviated ca used especially before dates and numerical measures as he was born circa 1650 ca 50 feet high...
compact disc
a disk shaped optical data storage medium approximately 4 34 in in diameter which stores binary data as microscopic nonreflective holes or pits in an otherwise reflective surface and is recorded and played back by rotation in an electronic device containing a laser It is often referred to by its abbreviation CD It is a type of optical data storage medium Compact disks are used for recordings of music as well as of data for computer applications...
comparability
a similarity allowing comparison an approximate equivalence...
constantan
a copper nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples...
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