Average Book Length: Guess How Many Words Are In A Novel. According to Amazonâs great Text Stats feature, the median length for all books is about 64,000 words. The figure was found through looking at a number of booksâ text stats, until Brave New Worldâs 64,531 word count landed in the exact center of all booksâ50% of books have fewer words and 50% of books have more words.
To gird or surround with a surcingle, as a horse. To secure by means of a surcingle, as a blanket or the saddle. n. A girth for a horse; especially, a girth separate from the saddle and passing around the body of the horse, retaining in place a blanket, a sheet, or the like, by passing over it. n. The girdle with which a garment, especially a cassock, is fastened.
In structured finance, a tranche is one of a number of related securities offered as part of the same transaction. The word tranche is French for slice, section, series, or portion, and is cognate to English trench ('ditch'). In the financial sense of the word, each bond is a different slice of the deal's risk.