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  • digital audiotape — a cassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of audio. Abbreviation: DAT.
  • digital signature — an encrypted digital code appended to an electronic document to verify that it was created by a known source and has not been altered.
  • dihydroergotamine — an ergot alkaloid, C 33 H 37 N 5 O 5 , used in the treatment of various types of migraine headache.
  • dihydromorphinone — a narcotic compound, C 17 H 19 O 3 N, prepared from morphine and used chiefly as an analgesic.
  • dimethylformamide — a colourless liquid widely used as a solvent and sometimes as a catalyst. Formula: (CH3)2NCHO
  • dimethylhydrazine — a flammable, highly toxic, and colorless liquid, C 2 H 8 N 2 , used as a component in jet and rocket fuels.
  • dimethylsulfoxide — DMSO.
  • dining room suite — a set of furniture used in a dining room
  • diphenylacetylene — tolan.
  • directory service — (database, networking)   A structured repository of information on people and resources within an organisation, facilitating management and communication. On a LAN or WAN the directory service identifies all aspects of the network including users, software, hardware, and the various rights and policies assigned to each. As a result applications can access information without knowing where a particular resource is physically located, and users interact oblivious to the network topology and protocols. To allow heterogeneous networks to share directory information the ITU proposed a common structure called X.500. However, its complexity and lack of seamless Internet support led to the development of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which has continued to evolve under the aegis of the IETF. Despite its name LDAP is too closely linked to X.500 to be "lightweight".
  • disability clause — a clause in a life-insurance policy providing for waiver of premium and sometimes payment of monthly income if the policyholder becomes totally and permanently disabled.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • disposable income — the part of a person's income remaining after deducting personal income taxes.
  • distributed force — A distributed force is a force that acts on a large part of a surface, not just on one place.
  • distribution line — A distribution line is a line or system for distributing power from a transmission system to a consumer that operates at less than 69,000 volts.
  • domestic commerce — an interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale between different countries (foreign commerce) or between different parts of the same country (domestic commerce) trade; business.
  • domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
  • double track line — a railway line with double track
  • dow jones average — The Dow Jones Average is a daily measurement of stock-exchange prices, based on the average price of a selected number of securities.
  • down the plughole — If you say that something has gone down the plughole, you mean that it has failed or has been lost or wasted.
  • downwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • dramatis personae — (used with a plural verb) the characters in a play.
  • drop one's bundle — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  • duality principle — the principle that a mathematical duality exists under certain conditions.
  • dutch elm disease — a disease of elms characterized by wilting, yellowing, and falling of the leaves and caused by a fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi, transmitted by bark beetles.
  • dynamic insurance — Dynamic insurance is a type of insurance coverage where the policyholder can choose to increase benefits and premiums by a fixed percentage each year to offset the effects of inflation.
  • early renaissance — a style of art developed principally in Florence, Italy, during the 15th century and characterized chiefly by the development of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and geometrically based compositions.
  • east pacific rise — a long north-south elevation of the sea floor in the E Pacific Ocean extending southward from SW Mexico to the Antarctic Ocean.
  • east renfrewshire — a council area of W central Scotland, comprising part of the historical county of Renfrewshire; part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural and residential. Administrative centre: Giffnock. Pop: 89 680 (2003 est). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
  • economic blockade — an embargo on trade with a country, esp one which prohibits receipt of exports from that country, with the intention of disrupting the country's economy
  • edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • egg on one's face — embarrassment due to an obvious blunder
  • electoral college — officials: vote for president
  • electrified fence — a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter animals or people from crossing a boundary
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • electronic office — integrated computer systems designed to handle office work
  • emergency service — a department within a bigger organization that deals with emergencies
  • emotional baggage — burden of personal experience
  • emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
  • employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
  • english shellcode — (security)   A kind of malware that is embedded in ordinary English sentences. English shellcode attempts to avoid detection by antivirus software by making the code resemble, e.g. e-mail text or Wikipedia entries. It was first revealed by researchers at Johns Hopkins.
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • equation of state — any equation that expresses the relationship between the temperature, pressure, and volume of a substance
  • ethylmethylketone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
  • exclusionary rule — a legal rule that evidence obtained illegally, as from a search without a warrant, may not be introduced at trial
  • exhibition centre — a large building in which major trade fairs are held
  • facsimile machine — a machine which transmits and receives documents in facsimile transmission
  • fair market price — the price of something at which both a seller and a buyer are willing to strike a deal.
  • fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
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