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- delta hepatitis — a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus (delta virus) that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.
- demolition bomb — a bomb containing a relatively large charge, used especially to destroy structures.
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
- demolition zone — an area consisting of buildings marked for demolition
- demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
- denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- density current — a turbid, dense current of sediments in suspension moving along the slope and bottom of a lake or ocean.
- deposit account — A deposit account is a type of bank account where the money in it earns interest.
- derequisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of derequisition.
- dermatomyositis — a chronic medical condition characterized by inflammation of muscles (myositis), accompanied by a skin rash
- desensitisation — The act or process of desensitising, of dulling or reducing sensation.
- desensitization — the act or process of desensitizing.
- destructibility — The condition of being destructible.
- determinability — the quality of being determinable
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- digital carrier — (hardware, communications) A medium which can carry digital signals; broadly equivalent to the physical layer of the OSI seven layer model of networks. Carriers can be described as baseband or broadband. A baseband carrier can include direct current (DC), whereas broadband carriers are modulated by various methods into frequency bands which do not include DC. Sometimes a modem (modulator/demodulator) or codec (coder/decoder) combines several channels on one transmission path. The combining of channels is called multiplexing, and their separation is called demultiplexing, independent of whether a modem or codec bank is used. Modems can be associated with frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and codecs with time division multiplexing (TDM) though this grouping of concepts is somewhat arbitrary. If the medium of a carrier is copper telephone wire, the circuit may be called T1, T3, etc. as these designations originally described such. T1 carriers used a restored polar line coding scheme which allowed a baseband signal to be transported as broadband and restored to baseband at the receiver. T1 is not used in this sense today, and indeed it is often confused with the DS1 signal carried.
- digital citizen — a person who develops the skills and knowledge to effectively use the Internet and other digital technology, especially in order to participate responsibly in social and civic activities: We're teaching students how to become good digital citizens.
- digital mapping — a method of preparing maps in which the data is stored in a computer for ease of access and updating
- direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
- disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
- discontinuities — Plural form of discontinuity.
- dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
- dispositionally — In a dispositional manner.
- disquisitionary — of or relating to a disquisition
- disreputability — The state of being disreputable.
- dissimilarities — Plural form of dissimilarity.
- distractibility — inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.
- dithiocarbamate — any salt or ester of dithiocarbamic acid, commonly used as fungicides
- dithionous acid — an unstable dibasic acid known only in solution and in the form of dithionite salts. It is a powerful reducing agent. Formula: H2S2O4
- dithyrambically — In dithyrambic fashion.
- divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
- dolomite marble — coarse-grained dolomite.
- domain maturity — (systems analysis) The level of stability and depth of understanding that has been achieved in an area for which applications are developed.
- domitae naturae — (of animals) tamed or domesticated (distinguished from ferae naturae).
- dorito syndrome — (humour) Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome."
- dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
- dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
- double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
- double or quits — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- duplicitousness — The state or condition of being duplicitous.
- dye sensitizing — the producing of panchromatic or orthochromatic film by treating it with an emulsion containing dyes that absorb light of all or certain colors.
- eddington limit — the theoretical upper limit of luminosity that a star of a given mass can reach; occurs when the outward force of the radiation just balances the inward gravitational force
- editio princeps — first edition.
- edition binding — a decorative binding for books, often of leather or simulated leather.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- eight-bit clean — (software) A term which describes a system that deals correctly with extended character sets which (unlike ASCII) use all eight bits of a byte. Many programs and communications systems assume that all characters have codes in the range 0 to 127. This leaves the top bit of each byte free for use as a parity bit or some kind of flag bit. These assumptions break down when the program is used in some non-english-speaking countries with larger alphabets. If a binary file is transmitted via a communications link which is not eight-bit clean, it will be corrupted. To combat this you can encode it with uuencode which uses only ASCII characters. There are some links however which are not even "seven-bit clean" and cause problems even for uuencoded data.
- electric guitar — electrically-amplified guitar
- electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.