Botany. 1  a tuft of silky hairs at the end of a seed. 2  the leafy crown of a tree; cluster of leaves at the end of a stem. 3  a terminal cluster of bracts, as in the pineapple.
The flexible pads are called base-isolators, whereas the structures protected by means of these devices are called base-isolated buildings. The main feature of the base isolation technology is that it introduces flexibility in the structure.
Deflators are a way to measure of broad price movements in the. economy. The deflator in the base year equals 100, and in the Green. Book the default base year is the budget request year - FY 2015 in. this edition (except for Chapter 7, where the base year used by the.