Mathematics » Geometry » Coordinate Geometry The radix of a number system.

Finance 1. For a single transaction, the excess of the selling price of the article or service being sold over the costs of providing it. 2. For a period of trading, the surplus of net assets at the start of that period, adjusted where relevant for amounts of capital injected ar withdrawn by the proprietors. As profit is notoriously hard to define, it is not always possible to derive one single figure of profit for an organization from an accepted set of data.

Computers, Computer Science The selection of one or more paths in the flow of data or signals through a system or stage. Selection of a path is based upon some criterion that allows a decision to be reached. The instructions used to mechandize the selection are sometimes called branch instructions.

Finance A direct tax on income.