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Aberdeen Standard Silver ETF Trust – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/19 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Friday, 11/8/19, at 4:30pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/19   ·   Accession #:  1450922-19-13   ·   File #:  1-34412

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

11/08/19  Aberdeen Standard Silver ETF Tr   10-Q        9/30/19   34:3.3M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    377K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     19K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     19K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
 5: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
17: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     68K 
31: R2          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     33K 
25: R3          Statements of Assets and Liabilities                HTML     29K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
12: R4          Schedules of Investments                            HTML     41K 
18: R5          Statements of Operations                            HTML     42K 
32: R6          Statements of Changes in Net Assets                 HTML     38K 
26: R7          Financial Highlights                                HTML     37K 
11: R8          Financial Highlights (Parenthetical)                HTML     14K 
19: R9          Organization                                        HTML     19K 
21: R10         Significant Accounting Policies                     HTML    231K 
15: R11         Related Parties                                     HTML     15K 
27: R12         Concentration Of Risk                               HTML     16K 
33: R13         Indemnification                                     HTML     15K 
22: R14         Significant Accounting Policies (Policy)            HTML    245K 
16: R15         Significant Accounting Policies (Tables)            HTML    187K 
28: R16         Organization (Details)                              HTML     14K 
34: R17         Significant Accounting Policies (Narrative)         HTML     39K 
                (Details)                                                        
24: R18         Significant Accounting Policies (Categorization Of  HTML     16K 
                The Trust's Assets) (Details)                                    
14: R19         Significant Accounting Policies (Schedule Of        HTML     35K 
                Investment In Silver) (Details)                                  
29: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     49K 
20: XML         XBRL Instance -- c922-20190930x10q_htm               XML    862K 
13: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     28K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- c922-20190930_cal               XML     39K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- c922-20190930_def                XML     39K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- c922-20190930_lab                     XML    283K 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- c922-20190930_pre              XML    209K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- c922-20190930                         XSD     65K 
23: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               83±   116K 
30: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001450922-19-000013-xbrl      Zip     63K

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