In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
ACTUALS
Noun
actuals
plural of actual
(accounting, project management) Documented historical results; things that have happened rather than things that are planned.
(business) Physical commodities or financial instruments which are traded in futures contracts.
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Source: Wiktionary
ACTUAL
Ac"tu*al (#; 135), a. Etym: [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.]
1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.
2. Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real;
– opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.
3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See under Cautery.
– Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."
Syn.
– Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real.
Ac"tu*al, n. (Finance)
Definition: Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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