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  • direct cinema — a rigorous form of cinéma vérité, especially as practiced by some American cinematographers in the late 1950s, in which only indigenous sound is used.
  • disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
  • discordianism — (recreation)   /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
  • discriminants — Plural form of discriminant.
  • discriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.
  • discriminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate.
  • discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
  • displacements — Plural form of displacement.
  • dna computing — (architecture)   The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems. Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
  • doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
  • document case — a flat, portable case, often of leather, for carrying papers, documents etc.
  • documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
  • documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
  • documentation — the use of documentary evidence.
  • documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domiciliating — Present participle of domiciliate.
  • domiciliation — to domicile.
  • dual monarchy — the kingdom of Austria-Hungary 1867–1918.
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • e-mail client — mail user agent
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
  • ecomanagement — any of various ways to lessen the harmful impact of human activity on the environment.
  • economization — The act or practice of using resources to the best effect.
  • economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
  • ectocommensal — Biology. (of an organism) living in a commensal relationship on the exterior of another organism.
  • ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
  • egomaniacally — In an egomaniacal manner.
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
  • embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • embryonically — In an embryonic way.
  • emergency tax — the tax a person pays on their income when it is not yet clear what tax band they should be assigned to
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
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