(film, television) A contract between a producer and a studio in which the studio agrees to buy a movie or show at a future date and for a fixed sum.

plural of negative pickup

(construction) An application wherein the waterproofing system and source of hydrostatic pressure are on opposite sides of the structure.

(electronics) Describing a circuit or component that changes its state only when an input signal becomes low.

Alternative form of negative-edge-triggered

a progressive income tax system in which people earning below a certain amount receive supplemental pay from the government instead of paying taxes to the government.

plural of negative income tax

(statistics) A discrete probability distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of independent and identically distributed Bernoulli trials before a specified (non-random) number of failures (denoted r) occurs.

plural of negative binomial distribution

(US, law) Synonym of Dormant Commerce Clause