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noun
- That which damps or checks; as:
- (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
- (b) A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
- (c) Something that kills the mood
- (d) A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
- Quotations
- Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any at the modest little festivities. - W. Black
- Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt: but without yeast.
- 1827: The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes. — w:Peter Cunningham, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190. Quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2.
adjective
- (comparative of, damp)
| | | DC |
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abbreviation
- (geography) District of Columbia (US federal district)
initialism
- District Court
- (electrical) direct current
- (degree) Doctor of Chiropractic
- (finance) debit card
| | delta connection |
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noun
- (electical) a type of three-phase connection
| | demagnetize |
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verb (demagnetiz, ing)
- To make something nonmagnetic by removing its magnetic properties.
- To erase the contents of a magnetic storage device.
| | dielectric |
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noun
- (physics) an electrical insulator; an insulator or nonconductor
| | dimmer |
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noun - A rheostat that is used to vary the intensity of a domestic electric light
- A switch used to select between the low and high headlamp beam on a road vehicle. (usu. as "dimmer switch", primarily in North America; elsewhere "dipswitch" or "dipper switch")
adjective
- (comparative of, dim)
| | | dipole moment |
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noun
- the vector product of the charge on either pole of a dipole and the distance separating them
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verb
- To manage, control, steer.
- To aim at.
- They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
- He directed his question to the room in general.
adjective
- Straight, constant, without interruption.
| | direct current |
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noun (abbreviated as DC)
- an electric current in which the electrons flow in one direction
| | discharge |
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noun
- (symptom) (uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology
- the act of accomplishing (an obligation)
- the act of expelling or letting go
- (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge
- (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital
- (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service
- (hydrology) the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second)
verb (discharg, ing)
- to accomplish or complete, as an obligation
- to expel or let go
- (electricity) to release (an accumulated charge)
- (medicine) to release (an inpatient) from hospital
- (military) to release (a member of the armed forces) from service
- to operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling)
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- The act of displace, displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- "Unnecessary of funds." -A. Hamilton.
- "The of the sun by parallax." -Whewell.
- The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- (chemistry) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
- (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodge, dodging.
- (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
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noun
- a pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another, as in heating and air-conditioning ducts.
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noun (wikipedia, Dynamo)
- A dynamo-electric machine
- An energetic person
- That new Vice President of Marketing is a real ; sales have already gone up this quarter.
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