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  • compartmentalised — Simple past tense and past participle of compartmentalise.
  • compensated grade — a grade that has been reduced along a curve to offset the additional resistance due to the curve.
  • consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
  • contradictoriness — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
  • contradistinction — a distinction made by contrasting different qualities
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • contradistinguish — to differentiate by means of contrasting or opposing qualities
  • contraindications — Plural form of contraindication.
  • coordinate clause — one of two or more clauses in a sentence having the same status and introduced by coordinating conjunctions
  • coordinate system — a system of coordinates that uses numbers to represent a point, line, or the like.
  • cut a person dead — to ignore a person completely
  • dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
  • darwinian fitness — fitness (def 3).
  • darwinian-fitness — health.
  • data service unit — (communications)   (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
  • data transmission — the act of sending data electronically over a communications network
  • de facto standard — A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, but which nevertheless has a large market share. The archetypal example of a de facto standard is the IBM PC which, despite is many glaring technical deficiencies, has gained such a large share of the personal computer market that it is now popular simply because it is popular and therefore enjoys fierce competition in pricing and software development.
  • decriminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of decriminalization.
  • defamiliarisation — (arts) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
  • defence secretary — the member of a government who is responsible for the country's armed forces
  • dehistoricization — The process or result of dehistoricizing.
  • deindustrializing — Present participle of deindustrialize.
  • delay instruction — delayed control-transfer
  • dematerialisation — The act or process of dematerializing.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • depersonalisation — Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
  • depersonalization — the act or an instance of depersonalizing
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • designated driver — The designated driver in a group of people travelling together is the one who has agreed to drive, or who is insured to drive.
  • designated hitter — In baseball, a designated hitter is a player who bats in place of the pitcher.
  • despotic monarchy — absolute monarchy.
  • destination store — A destination store draws customers by selling unusual items, or having a friendly atmosphere, special pricing, and other desirable characteristics.
  • desynchronisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.
  • desynchronization — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • deterministically — the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
  • digital signature — an encrypted digital code appended to an electronic document to verify that it was created by a known source and has not been altered.
  • disaster planning — disaster recovery
  • discreditableness — Quality of being discreditable.
  • disintermediation — the act of removing funds from savings banks and placing them into short-term investments on which the interest-rate yields are higher.
  • display standards — display standard
  • disproportionally — not in proportion; disproportionate.
  • disproportionates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disproportionate.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissipation trail — a clear rift left behind an aircraft flying through a thin cloud layer.
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • distance learning — education in which students receive instruction over the Internet, from a video, etc., instead of going to school.
  • distillers' grain — a by-product of the distillation process for making whisky, used as an animal foodstuff
  • district attorney — an officer who acts as attorney for the people or government within a specified district.
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