For Allocation we have terms and definitions in 13 topics. The topics are Accounting, Fish, Geography, Grantmaking, Hard Drive Recovery, IPO, International Economics, Natural Gas, Organ Donors, Organ Transplant, RAID Drive Recovery, Storage Media and Supply Chain.

Allocation (Accounting)

is the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plane.g.allocating costs is the assignment of costs to departments or products over various time periodsproductsoperationsor investments. See ALLOCATE.

Allocation (Fish)

Division of the fish resource among harvesters and needs for reproduction

Allocation (Geography)

Distribution or sharing out of resouces.

Allocation (Grantmaking)

Grant funding set aside for a specific purpose, such as a line item in the grant budget. See also:Budget

Allocation (Hard Drive Recovery)

The method DOS uses to assign a specific area of the hard drive to a given file. (See also cluster.)

Allocation (IPO)

This is the amount of stock in an initial public offering (IPO) granted by the underwriter to an investor. For most IPOs, the allocation is significantly less than the indication of interest. The allocations are meted out based on commission volume, trading history and type of investor.

Allocation (International Economics)

An assignment of economic resources to uses. Thus, in general equilibrium, an assignment of factors to industries producing goods and services, together with the assignment of resulting final goods and services to consumers, within a country or throughout the world economy.

Allocation (Natural Gas)

The process of determining ownership rights to the gas delivered to a meter.

Allocation (Organ Donors)

The system of ensuring that organs and tissues are distributed fairly to patients who are in need.

Allocation (Organ Transplant)

Distribution of organs and tissues to patients according to a set plan.

Allocation (RAID Drive Recovery)

The method DOS uses to assign a specific area of the hard drive to a given file. (See also cluster.)

Allocation (Storage Media)

The process of assigning particular areas of the disk to particular data or instructions. See also Allocation unit.

Allocation (Supply Chain)

1) A distribution of costs using calculations that may be unrelated to physical observations or direct or repeatable cause-and-effect relationships. Because of the arbitrary nature of allocations, costs based on cost causal assignment are viewed as more relevant for management decision-making. 2) Allocation of available inventory to customer and production orders.
All Water: Term used when the transportation is completely by water.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI): A non-profit organization chartered to develop, maintain, and promulgate voluntary US national standards in a number of areas, especially with regards to setting EDI standards. ANSI is the US representative to the International Standards Organization (ISO).
American Society for Quality (ASQ): Founded in 1946, a not-for-profit educational organization consisting of 144,000 members who are interested in quality improvement.
American Society of Transportation & Logistics: A professional organization in the field of logistics.
American Trucking Associations: A motor carrier industry association composed of sub-conferences representing various motor carrier industry sectors.
American Waterway Operators: A domestic water carrier industry association representing barge operators on inland waterways.
Amtrak: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, a federally created corporation that operates most of the United States' intercity passenger rail service.
ANSI: See American National Standards Institute
Anti-Dumping Duty: An additional import duty imposed in instances where imported goods are priced at less than the ìnormalî price charged in the exporterís domestic market and cause material injury to domestic industry in the importing country
Any-Quantity (AQ) rate: A rate that applies to any size shipment tendered to a carrier; no discount rate is available for large shipments.
API: American Petroleum Institute; also Application Programming Interface
APU: APUs automatically shut down the main locomotive engine idle while maintaining all vital main engine systems at greatly reduced fuel consumption

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