| depactin | <protein> Actin depolymerising protein (17.6 kD) originally isolated from echinoderm eggs. Apparently unlike other actin binding proteins. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| depart | 1. To part; to divide; to separate. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. 2. A going away; departure; hence, death. To pass away; to perish 3. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; opposed to arrive; often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. 4. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. Origin: F. Depart, fr. Departir. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| department | 1. Act of departing; departure. "Sudden departments from one extreme to another." (Wotton) 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. "Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature." (Macaulay) 4. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics. 5. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire. 6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac. Origin: F. Departement, fr. Departir. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Department of Energy | Department within the executive branch of the U.S. Government (at the cabinet level) which has managed and overseen federally-sponsored energy research. It was formed in 1977 from the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Atomic Enegy Commission. Acronym: DOE (10 Nov 1998) |
| departmental | Pertaining to a department or division. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| departure | 1. Division; separation; putting away. "No other remedy . . . But absolute departure." (Milton) 2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. "Departure from this happy place." (Milton) 3. Removal from the present life; death; decease. "The time of my departure is at hand." (2 Tim. Iv. 6) "His timely departure . . . Barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries." (Sir P. Sidney) 4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. "Any departure from a national standard." (Prescott) 5. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. 6. <astronomy> The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course. <astronomy> To take a departure, to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook. Synonym: Death, demise, release. See Death. Origin: From Depart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| depasture | To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. "Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds." (Blackstone) "A right to cut wood upon or departure land." (Washburn) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| depauperate | <botany> Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Origin: L. Depauperatus, p. P. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dependence | The quality or condition of relying upon, being influenced by, or being subservient to a person or object reflecting a particular need. Origin: L. Dependeo, to hang from (05 Mar 2000) |
| dependency | <psychology> The tendency of an individual or individuals to rely on others for advice, guidance, or support. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dependent | Exhibiting dependence or dependency. (18 Nov 1997) |
| dependent beat | <cardiology, physiology> An extrasystole supposedly precipitated in some way by the preceding normal beat to which it is coupled, an extrasystole caused by artificial stimulation of the heart. Synonym: dependent beat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dependent drainage | Drainage from the lowest part and into a receptacle at a level lower than the structure being drained. Synonym: downward drainage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dependent oedema | A clinically detectable increase in extracellular fluid volume localised in a dependent area, as of a limb, characterised by swelling or pitting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dependent personality | A personality in which a person passively allows others to assume responsibility for making decisions affecting him/her, characterised by a lack of self-confidence and an inability to function independently. (05 Mar 2000) |