Line where the sky seems to meet the earth

A building or group of attached or detached buildings containing dwelling or lodging units in which 50 percent or more of the units are lodging units, usually distinguished by a front desk, dining and other common facilities

Rules of conduct adopted by a board of directors of a condominium and designed to promote harmonious living among the owners and occupants

Definition: A dwelling; any building or part of a building intended as a residence for at least one person or family.


Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Real Estate, Legal, Management

Definition:
Properties intended as dwellings for persons age 62 or older, or housing occupied by at least one person of at least 55 years of age where 80 percent of the units are occupied by those age 55 or older.
Same as Housing for elderly persons or Housing for senior citizens.

Discussion: Dwellings as described above are exempt from the Familial status protection offered by the Federal Fair Housing Act.


Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Real Estate, Legal, Management

Describes the solar energy-driven process by which water moves and is distributed on the earth's surface; includes as major components precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, surface runoff, and groundwater flows.

The study of water, including its occurrence, distribution, movement, properties, and processes.

The area that immediately underlies a riverbed, varying in depth depending on geologic structure, composition, and the size of the river bottom. Organisms can be quite plentiful in this zone, at times even more abundant than those inhabiting the river bottom itself, with oxygen being the limiting factor.

Terms, Definitions, and Concepts: Biology, Ecology, Geology, Hydrology, Science, Water

To pledge specific real or personal property as security for an obligation, without surrendering possession of it

An explanation for natural or other phenomena, developed using abductive reasoning following observation (the scientific method). The hypothesis is tested through the use of designed experiments, and shown to be either valid or invalid. If the original research hypothesis is deemed invalid, a new hypothesis must be developed, often based on further ovservation as well as the results from the previous experiment(s).