VERA

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Vera

A female given name from Russian.

Usage notes

• Popular in the Anglo-Saxon world in the 1910s and the 1920s, particularly in England.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Vera

A surname of Spanish origin.

Anagrams

• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare

Etymology 1

From Vera Lynn.

Noun

vera (plural veras)

(Cockney rhyming slang) skin (rolling paper for cigarettes)

Etymology 2

Noun

vera (uncountable)

(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the risk-free interest rate, or equivalently the rate of change of rho with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.

Synonyms

• rhova

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Anagrams

• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare

Source: Wiktionary



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