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  • data integrity — (data)   The absence of unintended changes or errors in some data. Integrity implies that the data is an exact copy of some original version, e.g. that it has not been corrupted in the process of being written to, and read back from, a hard disk or during transmission via some communications channel. Integrity may further imply that the information represented by the data has been validated, i.e. verified to conform to certain constraints, e.g. a date's year, month and day parts are within the appropriate ranges and the date actually exists.
  • daycare centre — an establishment offering daycare to preschool children, enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem
  • debt repayment — the action of repaying debts, or a single payment made to wards paying off a debt
  • decoration day — Memorial Day
  • decoration-day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
  • deep-fat fryer — a device for cooking food by submerging it in hot fat
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • dehydrogenated — Simple past tense and past participle of dehydrogenate.
  • dehydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrogenate.
  • deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
  • deliverability — capable of delivery.
  • democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • dental surgery — a place where a dentist can be consulted
  • denumerability — the quality of being countable
  • departmentally — In a departmental manner; affecting departments.
  • depreciatingly — So as to disparage or belittle.
  • derivationally — In a derivational manner.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • describability — The quality of being describable.
  • detrimentality — causing detriment, as loss or injury; damaging; harmful.
  • dextrorotatory — turning or circling to the right, in a clockwise direction
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • diathermaneity — the quality of being diathermanous
  • differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • dimenhydrinate — a synthetic, crystalline, antihistamine powder, C 17 H 22 NO⋅C 7 H 6 ClN 4 O 2 , used in the treatment of allergic disorders and as a preventive for seasickness and airsickness.
  • direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
  • directionality — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • discernability — The state of being discernable.
  • discretionally — At one's discretion.
  • discriminately — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
  • disintegratory — Causing or relating to disintegration.
  • dispensatorily — in the manner of dispensation
  • don't you dare — If you say to someone 'don't you dare' do something, you are telling them not to do it and letting them know that you are angry.
  • dorcas society — a society of women of a church whose work it is to provide clothing for the poor.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • doubly serrate — biserrate
  • drag your feet — dawdle
  • drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
  • earsplittingly — In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
  • earthshakingly — In an earthshaking manner.
  • ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • electrocautery — Cautery using a needle or other instrument that is electrically heated.
  • electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
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