stipule

(noun)

small green appendage usually found at the base of the petiole

Related Terms

Examples of stipule in the following topics:

  • Leaf Structure and Arrangment

    • Leaves also have stipules, small green appendages usually found at the base of the petiole.
    • Petioles, stipules, veins, and a midrib are all essential structures of a leaf.

  • Advantages and Disadvantages of VC Financing

    • A stipulation of many VC deals includes appointing a venture capitalist as a member of the company's board.
    • VC deals also come with stipulations and restrictions in composition of the start-up's management team, employee salary and other factors.

  • The Taylor Rule

    • The rule stipulates how much a central bank should change the nominal interest rate (real rate plus inflation) in response to changes in inflation, output, or other economic conditions.
    • In particular, the rule stipulates that for each one-percent increase in inflation, the central bank should raise the nominal interest rate by more than one percentage point.

  • Macroeconomic Factors Influencing the Interest Rate

    • In economics, a Taylor rule is a monetary-policy rule that stipulates how much the Central Bank should change the nominal interest rate in response to changes in inflation, output, or other economic conditions.
    • In particular, the rule stipulates that for each 1% increase in inflation, the Central Bank should raise the nominal interest rate by more than one percentage point.

  • Treaty of Paris

    • French territories on the continent of America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannick Majesty and those of his Most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the River Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain to the sea; and for this purpose, the Most Christian King cedes in full right, and guaranties to his Britannick Majesty the river and port of the Mobile, and everything which he possesses, or ought to possess, on the left side of the river Mississippi, except the town of New Orleans and the island in which it is situated, which shall remain to France, provided that the navigation of the river Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea, and expressly that part which is between the said island of New Orleans and the right bank of that river, as well as the passage both in and out of its mouth: It is farther stipulated, that the vessels belonging to the subjects of either nation shall not be stopped, visited, or subjected to the payment of any duty whatsoever.
    • The stipulations inserted in the IVth article, in favour of the inhabitants of Canada shall also take place with regard to the inhabitants of the countries ceded by this article.

  • The Act of Defining: Conceptual Engineering

    • We are talking here about what is sometimes known as a "stipulative" definition.
    • Rather, a stipulative definition is merely a statement of what the decision maker intends to mean when using the word in question.

  • The Identity Matrix

    • Note that the definition of $[I]$ stipulates that the multiplication must commute—that is, it must yield the same answer no matter in which order multiplication is done.
    • This stipulation is important because, for most matrices, multiplication does not commute.

  • The First Continental Congress

    • When the first Congress adjourned, it stipulated another Congress would meet if King George III did not acquiesce to the demands set forth in the Declaration of Resolves.

  • The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  • Termination

    • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform of United States is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.
    • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform of United States is a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit.