Without reference to anything. / Without any apparent reason or purpose.

A calculation of the overall cost of capital used by an enterprise, made by totalling the cost of each source of capital used multiplied by its proportional share of the total capital used. Abbreviation: WACC.

(law) A formal statement of the rights of a specified group of people.

present participle of act out

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of act out

simple past tense and past participle of act out

Alternative spelling of acted-out

Any simple step in a multi-step chemical engineering process; examples include distillation, evaporation, mixing, filtration, crystallization etc.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, out. / (idiomatic) To perform a scene from a play, a charade or an exercise. / (idiomatic) To perform a fantasy in reality.

(astronomy) The region of the Universe in alignment with the galactic plane of the Milky Way where few galaxies were initially seen due to dust interfering with the view of ground-based telescopes.