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bulk B0540300 (bŭlk)n.1. Size, mass, or volume, especially when very large.2. a. A distinct mass or portion of matter, especially a large one: the dark bulk of buildings against the sky.b. The body of a human, especially when large or muscular.3. The major portion or greater part: "The great bulk of necessary work can never be anything but painful" (Bertrand Russell).4. See fiber.5. Thickness of paper or cardboard in relation to weight.6. A ship's cargo.v. bulked, bulk·ing, bulks v.intr.1. To be or appear to be massive in terms of size, volume, or importance; loom: Safety considerations bulked large during development of the new spacecraft.2. To grow or increase in size or importance.3. To cohere or form a mass: Certain paper bulks well.v.tr.1. To cause to swell or expand.2. To cause to cohere or form a mass.adj. Being large in mass, quantity, or volume: a bulk buy; a bulk mailing.Phrasal Verb: bulk up To gain weight by gaining muscle: dietary supplements that helped the weightlifters bulk up.Idiom: in bulk1. Unpackaged; loose.2. In large numbers, amounts, or volume. [Middle English, perhaps partly alteration of bouk, belly, trunk of the body (from Old English būc) and partly from Old Norse bulki, cargo, heap; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]bulking (ˈbʌlkɪŋ) n1. (Civil Engineering) the expansion of excavated material to a volume greater than that of the excavation from which it came2. (Civil Engineering) an increase in the volume of dry sand when its moisture content is increasedIdiomsSeebulkbulking
bulking[′bəl·kiŋ] (materials) The difference in volume of a given mass of sand or other fine material in moist and dry conditions. bulkingThe increase in the bulk volume of a quantity of a material in a moist condition over the volume of the same quantity dry; also called moisture expansion.LegalSeeBulkBulking
BulkingA brokerage's practice of combining a large number of orders to buy or sell a security and executing them as one. Bulking may occur for odd lot orders, or for orders below the minimum the counterparty wishes to sell or buy. |