| dashy | Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. Origin: From Dash. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dastard | One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. "You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility." (Shak) Origin: Prob. From Icel. Daestr exhausted. Breathless, p. P. Of daesa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. Dasask to become exhausted, and E. Daze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasymeter | <physics> An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density. Origin: Gr. Rough, thick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasypaedal | <zoology> Dasypaedic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasypaedes | <ornithology> Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched. Origin: NL, from Gr. Hairy, shaggy +, a child. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasypaedic | <zoology> Pertaining to the Dasypaedes; ptilopaedic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Dasyprocta | A genus of rodents of the guinea pig family, a reservoir host of Trypanosoma cruzi. Synonym: agouti. Origin: G. Dasyproktos, having hairy buttocks (05 Mar 2000) |
| dasyure | <zoology> A carnivorous marsupial quadruped of Australia, belonging to the genus Dasyurus. There are several species. Origin: Gr. Thick, shaggy + tail: cf. F. Dasyure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dasyurine | <zoology> Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| data | Multiple facts (usually but not necessarily empirical) used as a basis for inference, testing, models, etc. The word is plural and takes a plural verb. (05 Mar 2000) |
| data collection | Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data. (12 Dec 1998) |
| data display | The visual display of data in a man-machine system. An example is a cathode ray tube display in which certain data can be called for from the computer and presented on the screen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| data interpretation, statistical | Application of statistical procedures to analyze specific observed or assumed facts from a particular study. (12 Dec 1998) |
| data processing | Conversion of crude information into usable or storable form; statistical analysis of data by a computer program. (05 Mar 2000) |
| database | A structured file of information or a set of logically related data stored and retrieved using computer-based means. (12 Dec 1998) |