Drawdown may refer to:
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''Drawdown'' (book), 2017 book by Paul Hawken about climate change mitigation
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Drawdown (climate)
Climate drawdown refers to the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Drawdown is a milestone in reversing climate change and eventually reducing global ave ...
, the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere begin to decline
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Drawdown (economics) The drawdown is the measure of the decline from a historical peak in some variable (typically the cumulative profit or total open equity of a financial trading strategy).
Somewhat more formally, if X(t), \; t \ge 0 is a stochastic process with X(0 ...
, decline in the value of an investment, below its all-time high
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Drawdown (hydrology)
In water-related science and engineering, there are two similar but distinct definitions in use for the word drawdown:
* In subsurface hydrogeology, drawdown is the reduction in hydraulic head observed at a well in an aquifer, typically due to pu ...
, a lowering of a reservoir or a change in hydraulic head in an aquifer, typically due to pumping a well
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Drawdown card
Drawdown cards are used for testing paints and coating
A coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both. Coati ...
, used for testing paints and coatings through wet film preparation
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Drawdown chart Drawdown charts are rectangular pieces of non-fluorescent paper which are used to test a variety of coating properties. These properties include opacity, spreading rate, penetration, and flow & leveling behavior. This non-fluorescent material ha ...
, paper used to test various coating properties
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Income drawdown
Income drawdown is a method withdrawing benefits from a UK Registered Pension Scheme. In theory, it is available under any money purchase pension scheme. However, it is, in practice, rarely offered by occupational pensions and is therefore gener ...
, a method withdrawing benefits from a UK Registered Pension Scheme
See also
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Capital call
A capital call (also known as a draw down or a capital commitment) is a legal right of an investment firm or an insurance firm to demand a portion of the money promised to it by an investor. A capital call fund would be the money that had been com ...
, finance term, also known as a draw down
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Reduction (disambiguation)
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