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Equitable Building (Manhattan)
The Equitable Building is a 38-story office skyscraper completed in 1915 at 120 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, then the world's largest office building and a catalyst for New York's 1916 Zoning Resolution.
Equitable Holdings
Equitable Holdings, Inc. is an American financial services holding company offering retirement, asset management, and protection products, tracing its origins to the Equitable Life Assurance Society founded in 1859.
Equitable Transport Policy
The Equitable Transport Policy (均输法) was a Northern Song fiscal reform adopted in 1065 on Wang Anshi's proposal, converting tribute rice into light goods stored in Hedong and Shaanxi.
Equitas Small Finance Bank
Equitas Small Finance Bank is an Indian small finance bank based in Chennai, which began as a microfinance lender in 2007 and received its banking license in 2016.
Equitation
Equitation is the horse-show discipline in which the rider, not the horse, is judged on position, aids, and accuracy. Also called horsemanship in western showing; held mainly in the US and Canada across hunter, saddle seat, western, and dressage seat divisions.
Equites
Equites (Roman knights, equus = horse) were Rome's wealthy equestrian order: originally citizen cavalry with state-supplied horses, later a property class of 400,000-sesterces citizens below senators, prominent in tax farming, juries, and imperial administration.
Equity (economics)
Equity in economics is the principle of fairness in taxation and policy, captured by horizontal equity, equal treatment of equals, and vertical equity, the fiscal burden rising with capacity to pay.
Equity (film)
Equity is a 2016 American financial thriller directed by Meera Menon, written by Amy Fox, and starring Anna Gunn as investment banker Naomi Bishop. The first female-driven Wall Street film, produced by Broad Street Pictures and released by Sony Pictures Classics after its 2016 Sundance premiere.
Equity (finance)
Equity (finance), also known as shareholders' or stockholders' equity, is an ownership interest in a firm, the residual value of assets after all liabilities are paid.
Equity (law)
Equity (law): body of English-origin legal principles and remedies, administered historically by the Court of Chancery, that supplements common law when money damages are inadequate, via injunctions, specific performance, trusts, and vacatur.
Equity Intelligence India
Equity Intelligence India Private Limited is a Kochi-based, SEBI-registered discretionary portfolio manager founded by Porinju Veliyath in 2002, known for long-term value investing in Indian small and midcap stocks.
Equity method
The equity method is an accounting technique for investments with significant influence, recording the investment at cost and adjusting it for the investor's share of the investee's profit or loss.
Equity premium puzzle
The equity premium puzzle, first stated by Rajnish Mehra and Edward Prescott in 1985, is that US stocks outearned short-term debt by about 6.18 percent yearly, far more than standard theory explains.
Equity research
Equity research is the production of analysis on publicly traded companies, with sell-side analysts at brokers and banks publishing ratings, price targets, and reports for investors.
Equity Resource
Equity Resource is the serial fund complex of Equity Resource Investments, a Cambridge, Massachusetts real estate private equity firm founded in 2002, investing in affordable housing.
Equity risk premium
The equity risk premium is the extra expected return investors require for holding stocks instead of risk-free government bonds, a key input to the capital asset pricing model.
Equity swap
An equity swap is an over-the-counter contract in which one party pays the return on a stock, index, or basket in exchange for a fixed or floating interest rate payment.
Equity theory
Equity theory, proposed by J. Stacy Adams in 1963, holds that employees judge fairness by comparing their input-to-outcome ratios with comparable others, and perceived inequity motivates correction.
Equivalence class
An equivalence class is the subset collecting all elements related to a given element by an equivalence relation; the classes form a partition of the set.
Equivalence of adiabatic quantum computation and the circuit model
The equivalence of adiabatic quantum computation and the circuit model is a 2004 theorem, proved by Aharonov and colleagues, that the two models are polynomially equivalent.
Equivalence of categories
Equivalence of categories is the standard category-theoretic notion of sameness between two categories: a pair of functors going in opposite directions, inverse up to natural isomorphism.
Equivalence partitioning
Equivalence partitioning, also called equivalence class partitioning, is a black-box software test design technique that divides a system's inputs into groups expected to be processed the same way.
Equivalence point
The equivalence point, also called the stoichiometric endpoint, is the stage of a titration at which the titrant has completely reacted with the analyte according to the reaction's stoichiometry.
Equivalence principle
The equivalence principle, or principle of equivalence, states that all bodies fall with the same acceleration and that locally gravity is indistinguishable from acceleration, forming the foundation of general relativity.
Equivalence ratio
The equivalence ratio (φ) is a dimensionless measure of a fuel–oxidizer mixture, the actual fuel-to-oxidizer ratio divided by the stoichiometric one. A value of 1 is stoichiometric, below 1 lean, above 1 rich.
Equivalence relation
An equivalence relation is a binary relation that is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive, so it behaves like equality; its equivalence classes form a partition of the set.
Equivalence scale
An equivalence scale converts household income into a needs-adjusted figure relative to a single adult, used to compare living standards, set poverty lines, and measure inequality.
Equivalence test
An equivalence test is a statistical hypothesis test concluding two treatments or measurements differ by no more than a prespecified equivalence margin, typically using two one-sided tests.
Equivalence trial
An equivalence trial is a clinical trial designed to show a new treatment works about as well as an existing one within a predefined acceptable margin.
Equivalent (chemistry)
The equivalent, also called the molar or gram-equivalent, is a chemistry unit of reactive capacity, the amount of a substance supplying or consuming one mole of a reaction unit.