Definition
A saucer is a type of small dishware. While in the Middle Ages a saucer was used for serving condiments and sauces, currently the term is used to denote a small plate or shallow bowl that supports a cup – usually one used to serve coffee or tea. The center of the saucer often contains a depression sized to fit a matching cup; this depression is sometimes raised, and antique saucers may omit it altogether. The saucer is useful for protecting surfaces from possible damage due to the heat of a cup, and to catch overflow, splashes, and drips from the cup, thus protecting both table linen and the user sitting in a free-standing chair who holds both cup and saucer. The saucer also provides a convenient place for a damp spoon, as might be used to stir the drink in the cup in order to mix sweeteners or creamers into tea or coffee.
Saucer
What is ‘Saucer’
A technical charting formation that indicates that a stock’s price has reached its low and that the downward trend has come to a close.
Explaining ‘Saucer’
Saucer formations will exhibit very low volume figures at the point when the stock’s price was the lowest.
Further Reading
- A novel, rule-based technical pattern identification mechanism: Identifying and evaluating saucers and resistant levels in the US stock market – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- 'A transatlantic buzz': flying saucers, extraterrestrials and America in postwar Germany – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- Gibberellic Acid and Potassium Nitrate Promote Seed Germination and Growth of Grey-leaved Saucer-berry ( – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- Heritable pleiotropy of glabrous and saucer shape gene loci from peach and their breeding value. – www.cabdirect.org [PDF]
- Saucer peaches, cultivation for a niche market. – www.cabdirect.org [PDF]
- The economics of organization structure changes: A US perspective on demutualization – onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF]
- Flying saucers are real! The US Navy, unidentified flying objects, and the national security state – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- UFOs, ETs, and the Millennial Imagination – www.oxfordhandbooks.com [PDF]
- Sky and Stardust: The Flying Saucer in American Popular Culture, 1947–1957 – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
