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Home Dictionary Name: rockingDeep Rock doctrine
Deep Rock doctrine [from Deep Rock, a debtor corporation found to have been used for fraudulent transfers to its parent corporation in the Supreme Court case Taylor v. Standard Gas and Electric Co. (Deep Rock), 306 U.S. 307(1939)] : a doctrine holding that the claim of a stockholder and esp. a stockholder with controlling interest who makes a loan to his or her own corporation will be subordinated to the claims of outside creditors if the corporation is deemed undercapitalized ...
Bed rock
The solid rock underlying superficial formations Also Fig...
Rocking
Having a swaying rolling or back and forth movement used for rocking...
Rocking chair
A chair mounted on rockers in which one may rock...
Rocking stone
A stone often of great size and weight resting upon another stone and so exactly poised that it can be rocked or slightly moved with but little force...
Rock shaft
A shaft that oscillates on its journals instead of revolving usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion as in the valve gear of some steam engines called also rocker rocking shaft and way shaft...
Crag
A steep rugged rock a rough broken cliff or point of a rock on a ledge...
Deuterogenic
Of secondary origin said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks...
Diabase
A basic dark colored holocrystalline igneous rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron often limited to rocks pretertiary in age It includes part of what was early called greenstone...
Gabbro
A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine later to the rock called euphotide and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene diallage and labradorite with sometimes chrysolite olivine gabbro...
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