malus

malusnoun詞源 1/ˈmeɪ.ləs/

• 1

  businessThe loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

  • When bank fired the loan originator, they recovered the last two years of her bonuses under the malus clause in her contract.
  • The existence of boni and mali for the different risks can be interpreted through the sign of estimated covariances.
• 2

  rareA penalty or negative thing.

  • The driver game has a game screen with less number of properties and representations (see Fig. 3(a)). […] If the user completes a level within the allocated time, then the user gets a bonus and will be advanced to another level[,] and if user is unable to complete a level, then a malus is provided and the user gets retained in the same level.

malusnoun詞源 2

• 1

  A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

  • It leads to a certain extent to an evergreen type Docynia which is distributed in the Himalayas and western China and whose magnificence of bloom I learned to know on my travels in Yunnan; it is distinct from genuine maluses.
  • Malus ‘Dartmouth’ is a variety of M. pumila, the wild crab-apple, and is only one of the several maluses which offer a wider choice than the commonly planted ‘John Downie,’ lemoinei and eleyi.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• malu