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Encyclopedia > Soft landing

Soft landing is a landing in which buoyancy is slightly decreased. In finance, it refers to a situation where a growth rate slows, but still remains positive. MyTravel Airways Airbus A320 landing Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal or aircraft returns to the ground. ... In physics, buoyancy is the upward force on an object produced by the surrounding fluid (i. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... See economic growth Growth rate (group theory) Population growth rate This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


As well as describing trends, it is commonly used when predicting future financial events - when the user believes that the current trend is unsustainable, and must slow down, but will not crash.


An example newspaper headline: "Soft landing forecast for house prices as rate hikes stem growth" - Business Report, South Africa 1 Feb 2007.


See also

  • Hard landing

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Landing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (913 words)
Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal or aircraft returns to the ground.
Aircraft usually land at an airport on a runway or helicopter landing pad.
To land on an aircraft carrier, a conventional aircraft (moving at, perhaps, 150 mph (240 km/h)) is equipped with tailhooks to engage one of up to four arresting cables stretched across the deck, stopping the aircraft within 320 feet (100 m) after engaging one of the cables.
Moon landing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1667 words)
The first moon landing by a human was that of American Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin.
Its successor, Luna 2, was the first spacecraft to land on the moon, while Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon on October 7, 1959.
Luna 9, launched by the USSR on February 3, 1966, performed the first "soft landing" on the moon; and Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon on April 3, 1966.
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