For example, if your company spends $18,000 on the new vehicle, the company would be required to recognize $2,000 of âgain,â the difference between the insurance recovery and the cost of the replacement vehicle. That is a savings of $3,000 in taxable income.
Definition of RAREFACTION. 1. : the action or process of rarefying. 2. : the quality or state of being rarefied. 3. : a state or region of minimum pressure in a medium traversed by compressional waves (as sound waves). â rarÂ·eÂ·facÂ·tionÂ·al \-shnÉl, -shÉ-nÉl\ adjective. See rarefaction defined for kids. ADVERTISEMENT.
Rarefaction (ecology) In ecology, rarefaction is a technique to assess species richness from the results of sampling. Rarefaction allows the calculation of species richness for a given number of individual samples, based on the construction of so-called rarefaction curves. This curve is a plot of the number of species as a function of the number of samples.