ExpertGlossary terms starting with I

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Inactive Storage Capacity The portion of capacity below which the reservoir is not normally drawn, and which is provided for sedimentation, recreation, fish and wildlife, aesthetic…
Inadmissible That which, under the rules of evidence, cannot be admitted or received as evidence.
inalimarev (IN-uh-LIM-uh-rev) A cancer vaccine made with a form of vaccinia virus that does not cause disease in humans.
Iname Individual Name.
Inappropriate Usage A person who violates acceptable computing use policies.
Inbound Traffic moving from one waterway into another where the destination is on the subject waterway.
inbound host The host computer that provides a newsfeed. [Exchange 5.5]
Inbound Link A hypertext link to a particular page from elsewhere, bringing traffic to that page. Inbound links are counted to produce a measure of the page popularity.
Inbound links (IBL) Links that point to your site from sites other than your own. Inbound links are an important asset that will improve your site's PageRank (PR).
inbound recipient filtering A recipient filter that reduces unsolicited e-mail by filtering inbound information based on the recipient, and applicable only to e-mail messages sent by…
inbred line The product of inbreeding, i.e. the intercrossing of individuals that have ancestors in common.
inbreeding Matings between individuals that have one or more ancestors in common, the extreme condition being self-fertilization, which occurs naturally in many…
inbreeding depression The reduction in vigour over generations of inbreeding. This affects species which are normally outbreeding and highly heterozygous. See: hybrid vigour.
INC Industry Numbering Committee, a standing committee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) that provides an open forum to address…
Incandescent These lights use an electrically heated filament to produce light in a vacuum or inert gas-filled bulb.
Incapacity Lack of legal ability to act; disability, incompetence; lack of adequate power.
Incarceration Imprisonment in a jail, prison or penitentiary.
Incentive stock option (ISO) Corporate executives may be granted incentive stock options (ISOs), also called qualifying stock options.
Incentive tour A trip offered as a prize, usually by a company to stimulate employee sales or productivity.
Incentive Zoning Provides for give and take compromise on zoning restrictions, allowing for more flexibility to provide environmental protection.
Inch-Degrees The product of inches of rainfall multiplied by the temperature in degrees above freezing (Fahrenheit Scale), used as a measure of the snowmelting…
Inches of Mercury (or in Hg) Unit of atmospheric pressure used in the United States. The name comes from the use of mercurial barometers which equate the height of a column…
Inches of Runoff The volume of water from runoff of a given depth over the entire drainage.
Incidence The number of new cases of a disease diagnosed each year.
Incidence Rate The ratio of the number of new cancers of a specific site/type occurring in a specified population during a year to the number of individuals who were at…
Incidence, Delay-Adjusted A term related to incidence. An algorithm is used to estimate the incidence if it were unaffected by reporting delays.
Incident A violation or imminent threat of violation of computer security policies, acceptable use policies, or standard computer security practices.
Incident command system The combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common organizational structure to effectively…
Incident Handling The mitigation of violations of security policies and recommended practices.
Incident management Executing a defensive response when a network’s security is threatened.
Incident Response Plan The documentation of a predetermined set of instructions or procedures to detect, respond to, and limit consequences of a malicious cyber attacks against…
Incident Solar Radiation The amount of solar radiation striking a surface per unit of time and area.
Incidental take permit A permit issued under Section 10 of the Federal Endangered Species Act to private parties undertaking otherwise lawful projects that might result in the…
incidental-radiation device A device that radiates radio frequency energy during the course of its operation although the device is not intentionally designed to generate radio…
Incinerator Any device used to burn solid or liquid residues or wastes as a method of disposal.
Incised stream A stream that has cut its channel into the bed of the valley through degradation.
Incision (in-SIH-zhun) A cut made in the body to perform surgery.
incisional biopsy (in-SIH-zhun-al BY-op-see) A surgical procedure in which a portion of a lump or suspicious area is removed for diagnosis.
INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) Organization that promotes the effective use of information and communication technology through standardization in a way that balances the interests of…
Inclination The inclination of an orbit is the (dihedral) angle between the plane containing the orbit and the plane containing the earths equator.
inclination of an orbit (of an Earth satellite) The angle determined by the plane containing the orbit and the plane of the Earth's equator. [NTIA] [RR]
Inclined grate A type of furnace in which fuel enters at the top part of a grate in a continuous ribbon, passes over the upper drying section where moisture is removed…
inclined orbit Any nonequatorial orbit of a satellite. Note: Inclined orbits may be circular or elliptical, synchronous or asynchronous, and direct or retrograde.
Inclined Staff Gage A staff gage that is placed on the slope of a stream bank and graduated so that the scale reads directly in vertical depth.
Inclinometer An instrument, usually consisting of a metal or plastic tube, inserted in a borehole and a sensitized monitor either lowered into the tube or fixed within…
inclusion A foreign object present within, for example, an optical fiber or a crystal.
inclusion body A protein that is overproduced in a recombinant bacterium and forms a crystalline structure inside the bacterial cell.
inclusion/exclusion rules Rules that determine what content should be included or excluded when specific sites are crawled. See also: crawl
Inclusionary zoning A system that requires a minimum percentage of lower and moderate income housing to be provided in new developments.
incoherent In optics, characterized by a degree of coherence significantly less than 0.88.
Income Includes but is not limited to the following items: earned income such as compensation for services, fees, commissions, salaries, wages and similar items…
Income annuity An income annuity, sometimes called an immediate annuity, pays an annual income, usually in monthly installments.
income approach to value A method used by real estate appraisers to predict a property's anticipated future income.
Income fund Alternatively called a bond fund. Income funds are a type of mutual fund that holds debt instruments such as government bonds and corporate debentures.
Income in respect of a decedent Any income your beneficiary receives after your death that would have gone to you if you were still alive is described as income in respect of a decedent.
Income Level If your 2013 income is below $45,950 for an individual or $94,200 for a family of four, your out-of-pocket payment for health services may be lower.
Income Loss Pays a portion of your wages when injuries sustained in an auto accident keep you from working.
Income payments on assets Payments that result from the ownership of assets. It includes interest payments, dividend payments, reinvested earnings on foreign direct investment in…
Income payments to the rest of the world Consists of compensation paid to foreign residents, income payments on assets to the rest of the world (which includes interest and dividends paid to the…
Income Property Real estate developed or purchased to produce income, such as a rental unit.
Income receipts from the rest of the world Consists of compensation paid to U.S. residents by foreigners, income receipts on assets from the rest of the world (which includes interest and dividends…
Income receipts on assets For private businesses it consists of interest and dividend receipts from the rest of the world and reinvested earnings on U.S. direct investment abroad.
Income statement An income statement, also called a profit and loss statement, shows the revenues from business operations, expenses of operating the business, and the…
Income stock Stock that pays income in the form of regular dividends over an extended period is often described as income stock.
Income tax credit See "tax credit."
income taxes Taxes on income, both earned (salaries, wages, tips, commissions) and unearned (interest, dividends).
income-to-debt ratio > See: debt-to-income ratio.
Incoming (INC) This means an attack is coming.
incoming access The ability of a user to terminate data calls via an ISDN. [T1.615-1992]
incoming call identification (ICI) A switching system feature that allows an attendant to identify visually the type of service or trunk group associated with a call directed to the…
Incomparable left
incompatibility 1. Genetically or physiologically determined prevention of intermating. 2. A physiological interaction resulting in graft rejection or failure. 3.
incompatibility group Plasmids must belong to different incompatibility groups to co-exist within the same cell.
Incompetent One who lacks ability, legal qualification or fitness to manage his/her own affairs.
incomplete digest See: partial digest.
Incomplete dominance A condition where a heterozygous offspring has a phenotype that is distinctly different from, and intermediate to, the parental phenotypes.
incomplete Freund's adjuvant (in-kum-PLEET froyndz A-juh-vunt) A drug used in vaccine therapy to stimulate the immune system.
incomplete penetrance Where the phenotype does not allow perfect prediction of the genotype as a result of interference in gene expression by the environment.
inconsistent state A state that an object should not be in. A class needs to be carefully designed in order to ensure that none of its instances can get into an inconsistent…
incontestability -- see Section 15 Declaration of Incontestability
incontinence (in-KAHN-tih-nens) Inability to control the flow of urine from the bladder (urinary incontinence) or the escape of stool from the rectum (fecal…
Incorporation When a business incorporates, it receives a state or federal charter to operate as a corporation.
Incorporation by Reference To supplement the the disclosure of a patent application by making a specific statement in the application that other material is to be considered to be…
incorrect block A block successfully delivered to the intended destination user, but having one or more incorrect bits, additions, or deletions, in the delivered block.
INCR Increase
Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) Coverage for expenses a property owner must incur, above and beyond the cost to repair the physical damage the structure actually sustained from a…
increment To increase the value of something by 1 (or by some other number, if so specified).
increment chain A series of incremental backups of the same path.
increment operator An operator (++) that adds one to its operand. It has two forms: pre-increment (++x) and post-increment (x++).
incremental compaction Data compaction accomplished by specifying only the initial value and all subsequent changes.
Incremental energy costs The cost of producing and transporting the next available unit of electrical energy.
Incremental Funding The provision (or recording) of budgetary resources for a program or project based on obligations estimated to be incurred within a fiscal year when such…
Incremental indexing Incremental indexing enables an efficient combination of freshness and scalability in a search node.
Incremental loss of life A measurement for assessing damage after a dam fails. The difference between the projected loss of life had the dam not been built and the projected loss…
incremental phase modulation (IPM) In spread-spectrum systems, phase modulation in which one binary code sequence is shifted with respect to another, usually to conduct a synchronizing…
Incremental Price The additional price of an alternative fuel vehicle over a similar conventional vehicle.
incubated Grown in the laboratory under controlled conditions. For example, white blood cells can be grown in special conditions so that they attack specific cancer…
incubation 1. The hatching of eggs by means of heat, either natural or artificial. 2. Period between infection and appearance of symptoms induced by a pathogen. 3.
Incubation period The interval of time between infection by a microorganism and the onset of the illness or the first symptoms of the illness.
incubator An apparatus in which environmental conditions (light, photoperiod, temperature, humidity, etc.