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  • dartmouth basic — (language)   The original BASIC language, designed by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963. Dartmouth BASIC first ran on a GE 235 [date?] and on an IBM 704 on 1964-05-01. It was designed for quick and easy programming by students and beginners using Dartmouth's experimental time-sharing system. Unlike most later BASIC dialects, Dartmouth BASIC was compiled.
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • deputy minister — (in Canada) the senior civil servant in a government department
  • deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
  • deuteranomalous — having deuteranomaly; relating to deuteranomaly
  • deuteronomistic — one of the writers of material used in the early books of the Old Testament.
  • dichotomous key — a key used to identify a plant or animal in which each stage presents descriptions of two distinguishing characters, with a direction to another stage in the key, until the species is identified
  • dichotomousness — the quality of being dichotomous
  • dimethylsulfide — Alternative spelling of dimethyl sulfide.
  • disambiguations — Plural form of disambiguation.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • discount market — a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.
  • disillusionment — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
  • distinguishment — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • domain calculus — (database)   A form of relational calculus in which scalar variables take values drawn from a given domain. Examples of the domain calculus are ILL, FQL, DEDUCE and the well known Query By Example (QBE). INGRES is a relational DBMS whose DML is based on the relational calculus.
  • domain squatter — (web)   An unscrupulous person who registers a domain name in the hope of selling it to the rightful, expected owner at a profit. E.g. http://foldoc.com/.
  • doubting thomas — a person who refuses to believe without proof; skeptic. John 20:24–29.
  • draughtsmanship — (British) alternative spelling of draftsmanship.
  • dual admissions — a system whereby students attaining less good marks than what is required are offered a place provided they successfully complete another course first to improve some aspect of their work
  • 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.
  • dutchman's-pipe — a climbing vine, Aristolochia durior, of the birthwort family, having large, heart-shaped leaves and brownish-purple flowers of a curved form suggesting a tobacco pipe.
  • e pluribus unum — one out of many: the motto of the USA
  • east massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
  • echinodermatous — belonging or pertaining to the echinoderms.
  • eclipse plumage — the dull plumage developed in some brightly colored birds after the breeding season.
  • economy measure — any method of reducing expenditure and hence saving money
  • edriophthalmous — (of certain crustaceans) having stalkless eyes
  • emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
  • enantiomorphous — Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic.
  • entre-deux-mers — any wine produced in the area of the Gironde between the rivers Dordogne and Garonne in S France
  • entrepreneurism — Synonym of entrepreneurialism.
  • equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
  • euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
  • excrementitious — Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • female suffrage — woman suffrage.
  • fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
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