Finance Time between cash disbursement and cash collection.

Computers, Computer Science The interval between corresponding edges of two consecutive pulses.

An action designed to repeat itself after a certain number of frames, allowing the frames to be looped together eg: a walk cycle for an animated character.

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Computers, Computer Science A method of delaying execution of a program to allow an operation that would normally require a complete cycle for completion. A cycle stealing data channel will allow the storage of a data word without changing the processor logic. After the word is stored, the program can continue as though it never stopped. A cycle steal is different from an interrupt in that it does not change the contents of an instruction register.

Business » Enterprise & Development 1. A sociological concept that describes changes in families across time. Emphasis is placed on the effects of marriage, divorce, births, and deaths on families and the changes in income and consumption through various family stages. 2. Families account for a very large percentage of all consumer expenditures. Much of this spending is systematic and stems from natural needs that change as a family unit goes through its natural stages of life. These range from the young single and the newly married stages to the full nest as the children are born and grow, to the empty nest and the final solitary survivor stage. Each transition prompts changes in values and behaviour.