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  • closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
  • closed ecosystem — a self-replenishing ecosystem in which life can be maintained without external factors or outside aid.
  • closed-captioned — (of a video recording) having subtitles which appear on screen only if the cassette is played through a special decoder
  • collagen disease — any of a group of diseases, as systemic lupus erythematosus, polyarteritis, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis, involving inflammation or degeneration of connective tissue and accompanied by deposition of fibrinous material.
  • conditional sale — a sale in which the title of a property remains with the seller until some condition is met, as the payment of the full purchase price.
  • confidentialness — The state or quality of being confidential.
  • confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
  • consenting adult — a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private
  • consumer durable — Consumer durables are goods which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
  • conventionalised — to make conventional.
  • coromandel coast — the SE coast of India, along the Bay of Bengal, extending from Point Calimere to the mouth of the Krishna River
  • crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • crystal detector — a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal
  • curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
  • cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • de-stalinization — the elimination of the influence of Stalin
  • dead sea scrolls — a collection of manuscripts in Hebrew and Aramaic discovered in caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They are widely held to have been written between about 100 bc and 68 ad and provide important biblical evidence
  • dead-man's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • dead-smooth file — the smoothest grade of file commonly used
  • decentralisation — Alternative spelling of decentralization.
  • decision problem — (theory)   A problem with a yes/no answer. Determining whether some potential solution to a question is actually a solution or not. E.g. "Is 43669" a prime number?". This is in contrast to a "search problem" which must find a solution from scratch, e.g. "What is the millionth prime number?". See decidability.
  • declassification — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • demilitarisation — The removal of a military force, usually at the end of hostilities or as part of a treaty.
  • demineralisation — Alternative spelling of demineralization.
  • demoiselle crane — a gray crane, Anthropoides virgo, of northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, having long, white plumes behind each eye.
  • demolition squad — a group of demolishers
  • demonstrableness — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • demutualizations — Plural form of demutualization.
  • dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
  • depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
  • depression glass — cheap glassware mass-produced during the Depression of the 1930s, usually molded in patterns in pale colors, and collectible since the early 1970s
  • depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
  • descending colon — the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure.
  • destabilizations — Plural form of destabilization.
  • destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
  • developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
  • developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • diagonal process — a form of argument in which a new member of a set is constructed from a list of its known members by making the nth term of the new member differ from the nth term of the nth member. The new member is thus different from every member of the list
  • dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • direct-mail shot — the posting of unsolicited sales literature to potential customers' homes or business addresses
  • disclosing agent — a vegetable dye, administered as a liquid or in tablet form (disclosing tablet), that stains plaque, making it readily apparent on the teeth
  • disconsolateness — (uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
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