The discount factor accounts for the opportunity cost of diverting economic resources from other activities.
Almost anyone, student or otherwise, would find it easy to use, attractively printed, and pleasantly diverting.
The new canal follows the same path, diverting runoff around the museum, thereby protecting it and the archaeological zone.
It might also serve to diminish the pain sensation by diverting attention or by suppressing the pain sensations.
This is analogous to having 100 fields of the same size and diverting harvested water to different numbers of them.
The plant uses a three-stage heat exchanger (recycle - heating - cooling) and a diverting valve to reject the improperly treated product.
Certainly since the 1960s these time costs have expanded substantially, diverting more of household members' energies into these activities.
Concerns about patients misusing medication, experiencing impaired thinking ability, or diverting opioids for non-clinical use by others, were reported by 44.1%, 35.8% and 23.8%, respectively.
