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  1. disclaimer A patentee, whether of the whole or any sectional interest therein, may, on payment of the fee required by law, make disclaimer (give up all or part of…
  2. disclosure A disclosure document explains how a financial product or offering works. It also details the terms to which you must agree in order to buy it or use it…
  3. disclosure document The USPTO eliminated its Disclosure Document Program on February 1, 2007. For more information, see the Federal Register notice: http://www.uspto.
  4. Disclosure Document Program A program of the USPTO wherein, for a small fee, the USPTO will maintain a written document disclosing an invention and signed by the inventor in…
  5. disclosure statement A written document prepared by the chapter 11 debtor or other plan proponent that is designed to provide "adequate information" to creditors to enable…
  6. Disclosures Certain information that Federal and State laws require creditors to give to borrowers relative to the terms of the credit extended.
  7. Disclosures (Credit) Certain information that federal and state laws require creditors to give to borrowers relative to the terms of the credit extended.
  8. Disclosures (Deposit) Certain information that federal and state laws require depository financial institutions give to depositors relative to the terms of the deposit account.
  9. DISCO Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office
  10. DISCOM Division Support Command (US Army term).
  11. discone antenna See biconical antenna.
  12. disconnect In telephony, the disassociation or release of a switched circuit between two stations.
  13. disconnect command (DISC) In Link-Layer protocols, such as high-level data link control (HDLC), synchronous data link control (SDLC), and advanced data communication control…
  14. disconnect signal In a switched telephone network, a supervisory signal transmitted from one end of a user line or trunk to indicate at the other end that the established…
  15. disconnect switch In a power system, a switch used for closing, opening, or changing the connections in a circuit or system or for purposes of isolation.
  16. disconnect timing The timing of the period during which a hang-up signal is being received from the called end office and an off-hook signal is being received from the…
  17. disconnect-control office The switching entity that performs disconnect timing and that decides when the connection is to be cleared.
  18. Disconnection The termination of an interconnection between two or more IT systems. A disconnection may be planned (e.g., due to changed business needs) or unplanned (i.
  19. Discontinued Drug Product Products listed in Drugs@FDA as "discontinued" are approved products that have never been marketed, have been discontinued from marketing, are for…
  20. discontinuous variation Variation where individuals can be classified as belonging to one of a set of discrete, non-overlapping classes.
  21. discordant Members of a pair showing different, rather than similar, characteristics.
  22. Discount When bonds sell for less than their face value, they are said to be selling at a discount.
  23. Discount brokerage firm Discount brokerage firms charge lower commissions than full-service brokerage firms when they execute investors' buy and sell orders but may provide fewer…
  24. Discount Health Plan A “discount health plan” refers to a type of “buyers’ club” that specifically markets reduced-rate health care services.
  25. Discount Point Some lenders require you to prepay a portion of the interest due on your mortgage as a condition of approving the loan.
  26. Discount Points Amount paid to the lender by the borrower or seller to decrease or "buy down" the borrower's interest rate.
  27. Discount rate The discount rate is the interest rate the Federal Reserve charges on loans it makes to banks and other financial institutions.
  28. Discounting A method of financial and economic analysis used to determine present and future values of investments or expenses.
  29. discoverer A function of a crawler that determines which data sources are available for the crawler to retrieve information from.
  30. Discovery This is when the Court orders each party (each side) to give each other information about the facts before the trial, to avoid surprise.
  31. Discrepancy any reported result, casework, or proficiency test, which differs from the consensus result.
  32. discrete data Geographic features containing boundaries: point, line or area boundaries.
  33. discrete simulation In a discrete simulation, time passes at an irregular rate that is determined by the primary events of interest in the simulation.
  34. discretion Prior formal authorization, frequently referred to as "trading authority," that permits a broker to make transactions in a client's account without having…
  35. Discretionary Access Control The basis of this kind of security is that an individual user, or program operating on the users behalf is allowed to specify explicitly the types of…
  36. discretionary access control (DAC) 1. [A] means of restricting access to objects based on the identity and need-to-know of users and/or groups to which the object belongs.
  37. Discretionary account A discretionary account is a type of brokerage account in which clients authorize their brokers to buy and sell securities on their behalf without prior…
  38. Discretionary Judgment The authority given USCINCSPACE or his duly authorized representative to perform actions not covered by the ROE.
  39. discretionary spending Spending (budget authority and outlays)controlled in annual appropriations acts.
  40. DISCRIM Discrimination
  41. discriminator The part of an FM receiver that extracts the desired signal from an incoming FM wave by changing frequency variations into amplitude variations.
  42. discussion forums A place where AWS users can post technical questions and feedback to help accelerate their development efforts and to engage with the AWS community.
  43. discussion group Synonym forum.
  44. discussion list Synonym forum.
  45. discussion server A computer that stores discussion text and information about the location of the file being discussed.
  46. discussion thread In a discussion board or Web discussions, a series of messages or comments in which replies to a message or comment are nested directly under it, instead…
  47. Discussions A feature for adding threaded remarks about a document.
  48. Discwipe Utility that overwrites existing data. Various utilities exist with varying degrees of efficiency - some wipe only named files or unallocated space of…
  49. Disdrometer Equipment that measures and records the size distribution of raindrops.
  50. Disease A disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors…
  51. Disease managem ent A broad approach to appropriate coordination of the entire disease treatment process that often involves shifting away from more expensive inpatient and…
  52. disease progression Cancer that continues to grow or spread.
  53. disease resistance The genetically determined ability to prevent the reproduction of a pathogen, thereby remaining healthy.
  54. Disease-associated genes Alleles carrying particular DNA sequences associated with the presence of disease.
  55. disease-free A plant or animal certified through specific tests as being free of specified pathogens .
  56. disease-free survival (dih-ZEEZ... ser-VY-vul) The length of time after treatment for a specific disease during which a patient survives with no sign of the disease.
  57. disease-indexing Disease-indexed organisms have been assayed for the presence of known diseases according to standard testing procedures.
  58. disease-specific survival rate (dih-ZEEZ-speh-SIH-fik ser-VY-vul ...) The percentage of people in a study or treatment group who have not died from a specific disease in a defined…
  59. Disembodied Voice A voice or noise that lacks an explainable source.
  60. disengagement attempt An attempt to terminate a telecommunications system access. Note: Disengagement attempts may be initiated by a user or the telecommunications system.
  61. disengagement denial After a disengagement attempt, a failure to terminate the telecommunications system access.
  62. disengagement failure Failure of a disengagement attempt to return a communication system to the idle state, for a given user, within a specified maximum disengagement time.
  63. disengagement originator The user or functional unit that initiates a disengagement attempt. Note 1: A disengagement originator may be the originating user, the destination user…
  64. disengagement phase In an information transfer transaction, the phase during which successful disengagement occurs.
  65. disengagement request A control or overhead signal issued by a disengagement originator for the purpose of initiating a disengagement attempt.
  66. disengagement time The average value of elapsed time between the start of a disengagement attempt for a particular source or destination user and the successful…
  67. disengagement-denial probability The ratio of disengagement attempts that result in disengagement denial to the total disengagement attempts counted during a measurement period.
  68. disgorger Device for removing hooks deeply embedded in the throat of fish.
  69. Dish engine The dish engine is a concentrating solar power (CSP) technology that produces electricity, typically in the range of 3 to 25 kilowatts, by using a…
  70. Dish engine system See Dish engine
  71. Dish engine technologies See Dish engine
  72. disinfection Attempted elimination by chemical means of internal micro-organisms (particularly pathogens) from a culture or sample; rarely attained. See: sterilize (1).
  73. disinfestation The elimination or inhibition of the activity of surface-adhering micro-organisms and removal of insects.
  74. Disinflation Disinflation is a slowdown in the rate of price increases that historically occurs during a recession, when the supply of goods is greater than the demand…
  75. disjoint namespace A domain namespace in which at least some of the computers do not use the Active Directory domain name as their primary Domain Name System (DNS) suffix.
  76. disjunction Separation of homologous chromosomes during anaphase I of meiosis, or of sister chromatids during anaphase of mitosis and anaphase II of meiosis.
  77. disk The visible surface of the sun (or any heavenly body) projected against the sky.
  78. Disk (Disc) Refers to both floppy disks and hard disks, which are both a form of magnetic storage medium used to digitally store data.
  79. disk and execution monitor (daemon) See daemon.
  80. disk block number (DBN) A number that identifies a block of data on a disk.
  81. disk drive A hardware device used to store data. They come in many forms, such as compact disks, floppy disks and hard disks.
  82. disk ID number A number assigned by the NetApp appliance to each disk when it probes the disks at boot-up, for example, 8.1.
  83. Disk Mirroring When files are stored on a computer system's hard disk, a 'mirror' copy is made on an additional hard disk or a separate part of the same disk to…
  84. disk pack An assembly of magnetic disks that can be removed as a whole from a disk drive together with a container from which the assembly must be separated when…
  85. disk scrubbing The process by which the system reads each disk in a RAID group and attempts to fix media errors by rewriting the data to another disk area.
  86. disk shelf A storage unit that contains disk drives.
  87. diskette An inexpensive, low-capacity storage medium, usually measuring 3.5 inches in diameter, often referred to as a floppy disk.
  88. Dismiss The ruling by a referee/judge that all or a portion (one or more of the causes of action) of a lawsuit or motion is terminated (thrown out) at that point…
  89. Dismissal Process by which a court will terminate a case. With Prejudice - cannot refile. Without Prejudice - can refile at a later date.
  90. DISN Defense Information System Network (DISA term).
  91. disomic (adj.) See disomy.
  92. disomy The presence of a pair of a specific homologous chromosomes. This is the norm for diploids.
  93. disorder (dis-OR-der) In medicine, a disturbance of normal functioning of the mind or body. Disorders may be caused by genetic factors, disease, or trauma.
  94. disorientation (dis-OR-ee-en-TAY-shun) A mental state marked by confusion about time, place, or who one is.
  95. disparity In pulse-code modulation (PCM), the digital sum, i.e., the algebraic sum, of a set of signal elements.
  96. dispatch To send something to its correct destination. Often used metaphorically to indicate a transfer of programmatic control to a destination selected…
  97. Dispatchability The ability to dispatch power.
  98. Dispatchable power (dispatchability) The ability of a power-producing facility to provide required amounts of power (at or below the facility's nameplate rating) on demand of the grid…
  99. Dispatching To schedule and control the generation and delivery of electric power.
  100. dispense The transfer of a measured volume of a solution.