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- diagonalization — (in linear algebra) the process of diagonalizing
- dichotomisation — Alternative spelling of dichotomization.
- dichotomization — The act of dichotomizing or the thing dichotomized; classification.
- differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
- dilatory motion — a formal proposal to be discussed and voted on in a debate whose effect is to interrupt the business under discussion at the time
- direct question — interrogative sentence
- direct taxation — Direct taxation is a system in which a government raises money by means of direct taxes.
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- disassimilation — The decomposition of complex substances, within an organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with the release of energy; a normal nutritional process that is the reverse of assimilation.
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
- discoordination — Impaired coordination.
- dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
- disintoxication — detoxification (def 4).
- disorganisation — Alternative spelling of disorganization.
- disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
- dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- do the dirty on — to behave meanly or unkindly towards
- docking station — device: charger
- doomsday weapon — any weapon of extreme lethal or destructive power; superweapon
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
- drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- early admission — a plan for admission to colleges in the US, in which students apply to colleges earlier in the year than is customary and receive their results earlier too
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
- extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
- exteriorisation — Mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised.
- exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
- externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
- eye examination — an eye test
- familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fatal exception — (programming, operating system) A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
- field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
- fifth dimension — a theoretical dimension beyond or in addition to a fourth dimension.