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Dirty WarnounMWEan offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victimsverified
Disability ChecknounMWEa monthly payment made to someone who has become disabled and is unable to workverified
Disability PaymentnounMWEa monthly payment made to someone who has become disabled and is unable to workverified
Disassortative MatingnounMWEmating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random matingverified
Disaster recovery plannounMWEManagement policy and procedures used to guide an enterprise response to a major loss of enterprise capability or damage to its facilities. The DRP is the second plan needed by the enterprise risk managers and is used when the enterprise must recover (at its original facilities) from a loss of capability over a period of hours or days. See Continuity of Operations Plan and Contingency Plan.verified
Disc BrakenounMWEhydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake padsverified
Disc DrivenounMWEcomputer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on itverified
Disc PacknounMWE(computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage deviceverified
Discharge LampnounMWEa lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gasverified
Discount RatenounMWEthe rate of interest set by the Federal Reserve that member banks are charged when they borrow money through the Federal Reserve Systemverified
Discovered ChecknounMWEa check on the opponent's king that is delivered by moving a piece out of the line of attack by a queen or rook or bishopverified
Discretionary access controlnounMWEA means of restricting access to objects (e.g., files, data entities) based on the identity and need-to-know of subjects (e.g., users, processes) and/or groups to which the object belongs. The controls are discretionary in the sense that a subject with a certain access permission is capable of passing that permission (perhaps indirectly) on to any other subject (unless restrained by mandatory access control).verified
Discretionary TrustnounMWEa trust that gives the trustee discretion to pay the beneficiary as much of the trust income as the trustee believes appropriateverified
Discussion SectionnounMWEa small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separatelyverified
Disembodied SpiritnounMWEany incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beingsverified
Dish AerialnounMWEdirectional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiationverified
Dish AntennanounMWEdirectional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiationverified
Dish SoapnounMWEthe soap used to wash dishes, typically by hand, and often placed near the sink in a kitchenverified
Dishcloth GourdnounMWEany of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruitsverified
Dishonorable DischargenounMWEa discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder)verified
Dishwashing LiquidnounMWEthe soap used to wash dishes, typically by hand, and often placed near the sink in a kitchenverified
Dishwashing SoapnounMWEthe soap used to wash dishes, typically by hand, and often placed near the sink in a kitchenverified
Disjunctive ConjunctionnounMWEthe conjunctive relation of units that expresses the disjunction of their meaningsverified
Disk BrakenounMWEhydraulic brake in which friction is applied to both sides of a spinning disk by the brake padsverified
Disk CachenounMWEa cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower diskverified
Disk ControllernounMWE(computer science) a circuit or chip that translates commands into a form that can control a hard disk driveverified
Disk DrivenounMWEcomputer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on itverified
Disk FilenounMWE(computer science) a computer file stored on a magnetic disk and identified by a unique labelverified
Disk ImagingnounMWEGenerating a bit-for-bit copy of the original media, including free space and slack space.verified
Disk OverheadnounMWE(computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timingverified
Disk PacknounMWE(computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage deviceverified
Disk shadowingnounMWEA back-up process that involves writing images to two physical disks or servers simultaneously.verified
Disorderly BehaviornounMWEany act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitledverified
Disorderly ConductnounMWEany act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitledverified
Disorganized SchizophrenianounMWEa form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behaviorverified
Disorganized Type SchizophrenianounMWEa form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behaviorverified
Disparate ImpactnounMWEFor Predictor Y and Sensitive Impact S. Definition 6.2 Disparate Impact (DI) = P[Yˆ = 1 | S != 1]/P[Yˆ = 1 | S = 1]verified
Disparate TreatmentnounMWEIntentional discrimination, including (i) decisions explicitly based on protected characteristics; and (ii) intentional discrimination via proxy variables (e.g literacy tests for voting eligibility).verified
Dispatch BoxnounMWEcase consisting of an oblong container (usually having a lock) for carrying dispatches or other valuablesverified
Dispatch CasenounMWEcase consisting of an oblong container (usually having a lock) for carrying dispatches or other valuablesverified