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  • customer support — Customer support is a service provided to help customers resolve any technical problems that they may have with a product or service.
  • data compression — the act of compressing.
  • 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.
  • decision support — Software used to aid management decision making, typically relying on a decision support database.
  • department store — A department store is a large shop which sells many different kinds of goods.
  • 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
  • depressurization — to remove the air pressure from (a pressurized compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft).
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • 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
  • diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
  • dispersal prison — a prison organized and equipped to accommodate a proportion of the most dangerous and highest security risk prisoners
  • dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
  • displaced person — a person driven or expelled from his or her homeland by war, famine, tyranny, etc. Abbreviation: DP, D.P.
  • disproportionate — not proportionate; out of proportion, as in size or number.
  • dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
  • do oneself proud — to do extremely well
  • do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
  • domestic partner — either member of an unmarried, cohabiting, and especially homosexual couple that seeks benefits usually available only to spouses.
  • domestic prelate — an honorary distinction conferred by the Holy See upon clergy, entitling them to some of the privileges of a bishop.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • droves of people — large numbers of people
  • dual personality — a disorder in which an individual possesses two dissociated personalities.
  • duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
  • dynamic response — The dynamic response of a machine, structure, or process is how it reacts over time to something that is done to it.
  • eastern european — relating to, situated in or coming from Eastern Europe
  • ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
  • echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
  • ectoparasiticide — Any pesticide designed to kill parasites that live on the exterior of a host.
  • electrodeposited — Deposited by electrodeposition.
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electroreceptors — Plural form of electroreceptor.
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
  • extemporaneously — In an extemporaneous manner; without prior preparation or planning.
  • false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
  • fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
  • ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • finless porpoise — a porpoise Neophocaena phocaenoides of the Indian and pacific Oceans that completely lacks a dorsal fin
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • fissure eruption — the emergence of lava from a fissure in the ground rather than from a volcanic cone or vent
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