actual ness (aktualnes)

The state or quality of being actual; actuality. [Rare.] actuarial (ak-tu-ā'ri-al), a. Of or pertaining to an actuary or to actuaries, or to the busine of an actuary: as, actuarial calculations; an ac tuarial society. actuarially (ak-tu-ā'ri-al-i), adv. After the manner of an actuary; in an actuarial way. The trade-unions of England are, actuarially speaking, bankrupt. N. A. CXLIII. 233. actuary (aktu-ā-ri), n.; pl. actuaries (-riz). [ tion. In England - (a) A clerk who registers the acts and constitutions of the lower house of Convocation. (b) An officer appointed to keep a savings-bank's accounts. 2. A person skilled in the application of the doctrine of chances to financial affairs, more especially in regard to the insurance of lives. The term is generally applied to an officer of a life-insurance company whose main duties are to make the computations nece ary to determine the valuation of contingent liabilities, computation of premiums, compilation of tables, etc.