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  • dermatoglyphics — the lines forming a skin pattern, esp on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet
  • dermatographism — a condition in which touching or lightly scratching the skin causes raised, reddish marks.
  • design recovery — (process)   A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
  • designated area — specified
  • desynchronizing — Present participle of desynchronize.
  • difference ring — a ring whose elements are cosets with respect to a given ideal.
  • differentiating — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • digestive tract — alimentary canal
  • digital carrier — (hardware, communications)   A medium which can carry digital signals; broadly equivalent to the physical layer of the OSI seven layer model of networks. Carriers can be described as baseband or broadband. A baseband carrier can include direct current (DC), whereas broadband carriers are modulated by various methods into frequency bands which do not include DC. Sometimes a modem (modulator/demodulator) or codec (coder/decoder) combines several channels on one transmission path. The combining of channels is called multiplexing, and their separation is called demultiplexing, independent of whether a modem or codec bank is used. Modems can be associated with frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and codecs with time division multiplexing (TDM) though this grouping of concepts is somewhat arbitrary. If the medium of a carrier is copper telephone wire, the circuit may be called T1, T3, etc. as these designations originally described such. T1 carriers used a restored polar line coding scheme which allowed a baseband signal to be transported as broadband and restored to baseband at the receiver. T1 is not used in this sense today, and indeed it is often confused with the DS1 signal carried.
  • direct coupling — conductive coupling between electronic circuits, as opposed to inductive or capacitative coupling
  • direct dialling — a service which allows telephone users to make international calls without operator assistance
  • direct lighting — lighting in which most of the light is cast directly from the fixture or source to the illumined area.
  • direction angle — an angle made by a given vector and a coordinate axis.
  • disconcertingly — disturbing to one's composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting.
  • disembarrassing — Present participle of disembarrass.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • dishearteningly — In a disheartening manner.
  • disintegrations — the act or process of disintegrating.
  • distress signal — a signal used, or designed to be used, by persons in peril, for the purpose of summoning aid, indicating their position, etc., as a radio code sign, aerial flare, flag hoist, or the like. Compare distress call (def 1).
  • dna fingerprint — the use of a DNA probe for the identification of an individual, as for the matching of genes from a forensic sample with those of a criminal suspect.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • drilling jacket — A drilling jacket is a small steel platform used for drilling wells in shallow and calm water.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • duplex printing — a feature of some printers allowing them automatically to do double-sided printing
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • eating disorder — any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.
  • echocardiograms — Plural form of echocardiogram.
  • echocardiograph — an instrument employing reflected ultrasonic waves to examine the structures and functioning of the heart.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • egyptian jasper — a type of jasper, generally with zones of colour, found in desert regions of Egypt
  • electric charge — Electric charge is an amount of electricity that is held in or carried by something.
  • electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
  • electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
  • electromagnetic — Of or relating to the interrelation of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electronic game — any of various small handheld computerized games, usually battery-operated, having a small screen on which graphics are displayed and buttons to operate the game
  • electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • emerging market — a financial or consumer market in a newly developing country or former communist country
  • emperor penguin — large Antarctic penguin
  • endocrine gland — anatomy: hormone-secreting gland
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • engagement ring — ring worn by bride-to-be
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
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