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Talk Talk - Communication terms
Category: General technical and industrial
Date & country: 28/05/2010, UK
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Davis, Miles(Dewey, Jr) US jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. He was one of the most influential and innovative figures in jazz. He pioneered bebop with Charlie Parker in 1945, cool jazz in the 1950s, and jazz-rock fusion from the late 1960s. His albums include
Birth of the Cool
dam
Click images to enlargeStructure built across a river to hold back a body of water (called a reservoir) in order to prevent flooding, provide water for irrigation and storage, and provide hydroelectric power. The biggest dams are of the earth- and rock-fill type, also called embankment dams. Such dams are generall...
da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist; see Leonardo da Vinci
Davy, Humphry
English chemist. He discovered, by electrolysis, the metallic elements sodium and potassium in 1807, and calcium, boron, magnesium, strontium, and barium in 1808. In addition, he established that chlorine is an element and proposed that hydrogen is present in all acids. He invented the safety lamp fo...
data protection
Safeguarding of information about individuals stored in files and on computers, to protect privacy
dauphin
Title of the eldest son of the kings of France, derived from the personal name of a count, whose lands, known as the Dauphiné, traditionally passed to the heir to the throne from 1349 to 1830
Daphne
In Greek mythology, a river nymph who was changed by her mother, the earth goddess Gaia, into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's amorous pursuit. Determined to possess her, Apollo fashioned her branches and leaves into a crown and decorated his lyre and quiver with her foliage
Danzig
German name for the Polish port of Gdansk
Dalton, John
English chemist who proposed the theory of atoms, which he considered to be the smallest parts of matter. He produced the first list of relative atomic masses in `Absorption of Gases` in 1805 and put forward the law of partial pressures of gases (Dalton's law)
Dame
In the UK honours system, the title of a woman who has been awarded the Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, or Order of the British Empire. It is also the legal title of the wife or widow of a knight or baronet, placed before her name
Dallas
Commercial city in northeastern Texas, USA, on the Trinity River; seat of Dallas County; population (2000 est) 1,188,600. The second-largest city in Texas (Houston is the largest), Dallas is the hub of a rich cotton-farming and oil-producing region, and is one of the leading cultu...
Dalian
Port in Liaoning province, China, on the Liaodong Peninsula, facing the Yellow Sea; population (2000) 2,872,000. Industries include engineering (especially machine tools), oil-refining, shipbuilding, food-processing (soybeans), and the manufacture of chemicals, textiles, cement, railway locomotives and rolling stock, and fertilizers. It...
Dakota
Area divided into two separate states of the USA; see North Dakota and South Dakota
Daladier, Edouard
French Radical politician, prime minister in 1933, 1934, and 1938–40, when he signed the Munich Agreement in 1938 (ceding the Sudeten districts of Czechoslovakia to Germany). After declaring war on Germany in September 1939, his government failed to aid Poland and, at home, imprisoned pacificists and communists. After his government resigned i...
Dahomey
Former name (until 1975) of the People's Republic of Benin
Dahl, Roald
British writer, of Norwegian ancestry. He is celebrated for short stories with a twist, such as Tales of the Unexpected (1979), and for his children's books, including James and the Giant Peach (1961), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), The BFG (1982), and
Dagestan
Autonomous republic in the southwestern Russian Federation, in northern Caucasia; area 50,300 sq km/19,421 sq mi; population (1996) 2,098,000 (42% urban). The main cities are Makhachkala (capital) and Derbent. Situated mainly on the northeastern slopes of the main Caucasus Mountains, Dagestan is bounded on the east by the northweste...
Daedalus
(mythology) In Greek mythology, a talented Athenian artisan. He made a wooden cow to disguise Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, when she wished to mate with a bull, and then constructed a Labyrinth to house the creature of their union, the Minotaur. Having incurred the displeasure of Mino...
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Since 1961, a Union Territory of west India, between Gujarat and Maharashtra states; area 491 sq km/190 sq mi; population (2001 est) 220,500. The capital is Silvassa. Four-fifths of the population belong to the Adivasi ethnic group, which includes the Varli, Dhodia, and Kondkan peoples. The predominant religion is Hinduism, with Chr...
Dadd, Richard
English painter. In 1843 he murdered his father and was committed to an asylum, but continued to paint minutely detailed pictures of fantasies and fairy tales, such as The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke (1855–64; Tate Gallery, London)
Dada
Artistic and literary movement founded in 1915 in a spirit of rebellion and disillusionment during World War I and lasting until about 1922. Although the movement had a fairly short life and was concentrated in only a few centres (New York being the only non-European one), Dada was highly influential, allowing for new and more modern art moveme...
Dacca
Alternative name for Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh
Dachau
Site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, in Bavaria, Germany. The first such camp to be set up, it opened early in 1933 and functioned as a detention and forced labour camp until liberated in 1945
Dayton
City in southwestern Ohio, USA, on the junction of the Great Miami and Stillwater rivers, 75 km/47 mi north of Cincinnati; seat of Montgomery County; population (2000 est) 166,200. It is the centre of an agricultural region and the hub of a large metropolitan area; industries include the manufacture of motor vehicle parts, business ...
Day-Lewis, C(ecil)
Irish poet. With W H Auden and Stephen Spender, he was one of the influential left-wing poets of the 1930s. His later poetry moved from political concerns to a more traditional personal lyricism. He also wrote detective novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. He was British poet laureate 1968–72. His poetry, which includes From...
Dayan, Moshe
Israeli general and politician. As minister of defence 1967 and 1969–74, he was largely responsible for the victory over neighbouring Arab states in the 1967 Six-Day War, but he was criticized for Israel's alleged unpreparedness in the 1973 October War and resigned along with Prime Minister Golda Meir. He returned to office, as foreign...
Davis, Jefferson
US politician, president of the short-lived Confederate States of America 1861–65. He was a leader of the Southern Democrats in the US Senate from 1857, and a defender of `humane` slavery; in 1860 he issued a declaration in favour of secession from the USA. During the Civil War he assumed strong political leadership, but ofte...
Davis, Bette
(Ruth Elizabeth) US actor. She established a reputation as a forceful dramatic actor with Of Human Bondage (1934). Other films include Jezebel (1938, Academy Award), Now, Voyager (1942), and All About Eve (1950). Her s...
Davis, Angela Yvonne
US left-wing activist for African-American rights, prominent in the student movement of the 1960s. In 1970 she went into hiding after being accused of supplying guns used in the murder of a judge, who had been seized as a hostage in an attempt to secure the release of three black convicts. She was captured, tried, and acquitted. At the Univ...
Davies, Peter Maxwell
English composer and conductor. His music combines medieval and serial techniques with a heightened expressionism as in his opera Taverner (1970), based on the life and works of the 16th-century composer John Taverner. Other works include the chamber opera The Lighthouse (1980), the music-theatre piece ...
David, Jacques-Louis
French painter. One of the greatest of the neoclassicists, he sought to give his art a direct political significance. He was an active supporter of the republic during the French Revolution, and was imprisoned 1794–95. In his Death of Marat (1793; Musées Royaux, Brussels), he turned political murder into classical t...
David, Gerard
Netherlandish painter. He was active chiefly in Bruges from about 1484. His style follows that of Rogier van der Weyden, but he was also influenced by the taste in Antwerp for Italianate ornament. The Marriage at Cana (c. 1503; Louvre, Paris) is an example of his work. Born in Holland, in a village near Gou...
David II
King of Scotland from 1329, son of Robert (I) the Bruce. David was married at the age of four to Joanna, daughter of Edward II of England. In 1346 David invaded England, was captured at the battle of Neville's Cross, and imprisoned for 11 years
David I
King of Scotland from 1124. The youngest son of Malcolm III Canmore and St Margaret, he was brought up in the English court of Henry I, and in 1113 married Matilda, widow of the 1st earl of Northampton. He invaded England in 1138 in support of Queen Matilda, but was defeated at Northallerton in the Battle of the Standard, and again in 1141
David, St
Patron saint of Wales, Christian abbot and bishop. According to legend he was the son of a prince of Dyfed and uncle of King Arthur. He was responsible for the adoption of the leek as the national emblem of Wales, but his own emblem is a dove. Feast day 1 March. David founded a monastery at Menevia (now St Davids), which he made his bishop's se...
David
King of the Hebrews 1004–965 BC. He became king of Judah on the death of King Saul at Mount Gilboa in 1004 BC, then king of Israel in 997 BC. He united the tribes against the Philistines, conquering their cities (such as Ekron), and extending his kingdom over Moab and other surrounding lands. He captured Jerusalem to make it the city of David,...
Daumier, Honoré Victorin
French artist. His sharply dramatic and satirical cartoons dissected Parisian society. He produced over 4,000 lithographs and, mainly after 1860, powerful, sardonic oil paintings that were little appreciated in his lifetime. Daumier drew for La Caricature, Charivari, and other periodicals. He created several fi...
data
Facts, figures, and symbols, especially as stored in computers. The term is often used to mean raw, unprocessed facts, as distinct from information, to which a meaning or interpretation has been applied. Continuous data is data that can take any of an infinite number of values between whole numbers and so may not be measured completely accurately. ...
Darwin
(Australia) Port and capital of Northern Territory, Australia; population (2001 est) 72,100. Darwin is situated at the centre of Australia's north coast, in the northwest of Arnhem Land on a peninsula bordering the Timor Sea. It is a service centre for the northern part of Northern Ter...
Darwin, Charles Robert
Click images to enlargeEnglish naturalist who developed the modern theory of evolution and proposed, with Welsh naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, the principle of natural selection. After research in South America and the Galapagos Islands as naturalist on HMS Beagle (1831–36), Darwin published <...
Dartmoor
Click images to enlargePlateau of southwest Devon, England; mostly a national park, 956 sq km/369 sq mi in area. Over half the region is around 300 m/1,000 ft above sea level, making it the highest and largest of the moorland areas in southwest England. The moor is noted for its wild aspect and the tors, rugge...
Dartford
Industrial town in Kent, southeast England, on the River Darent to the south of the Thames estuary, 27 km/17 mi southeast of London; population (2001) 56,800. Industries include milling, engineering, and the manufacture of cement, chemicals, paper, and pharmaceuticals (Glaxo-Wellcome). The Dartford Tunnel (1963) runs under the Thames to...
Darling
(river) River in southeast Australia, a tributary of the River Murray; length 2,736 km/1,700 mi. The Darling is formed about 40 km/25 mi northeast of Bourke, at the union of the Culgoa and Bogan rivers (which rise in central Queensland to the west of the Great Dividing range); ...
Darling, Grace Horsley
English heroine. She was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper on the Farne Islands, off Northumberland. On 7 September 1838 the Forfarshire was wrecked, and Grace Darling and her father rowed through a storm to the wreck, saving nine lives. She was awarded a medal for her bravery
Darjeeling
Town and health resort in West Bengal, northeast India; situated 2,150 m/7,000 ft above sea level, on the southern slopes of the Himalayas; population (2001) 107,500. The centre of a tea-producing district, it is connected by rail with Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), 595 km/370 mi to the south. Formerly the summer capital of the Br...
Darius I the Great
King of Persia 521–486 BC. A member of a younger branch of the Achaemenid dynasty, he won the throne from the usurper Gaumata (died 522 BC) and reorganized the government. In 512 BC he marched against the Scythians, a people north of the Black Sea, and subjugated Thrace and Macedonia
Dar es Salaam
Chief city and seaport of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean, and administrative capital, pending the transfer of government functions to Dodoma, which was designated the official capital in 1974; population (2002 est) 2,212,700. Industries include food processing, textiles, clothing, footwear, petroleum refining, glass, printing, timber, aluminium,...
Dardanelles
Turkish strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea; its shores are formed by the Gallipoli peninsula on the northwest and the mainland of Anatolia on the southeast. It is around 65 km/40 mi long and 1.6–6.4 km/1–4 mi wide. Called Hellespont in ancient times, it was the scene of the legend of Hero and Leander;...
Danube
Second longest of European rivers, rising on the eastern slopes of the Black Forest, and flowing 2,858 km/1,776 mi across Europe to enter the Black Sea in Romania by a swampy delta. The head of river navigation is Ulm, in Baden-Württemberg; Braila, Romania, is the limit for ocean-going ships. Cities on the Danube include Linz, ...
Danton, Georges Jacques
French revolutionary. Originally a lawyer, during the early years of the Revolution he was one of the most influential people in Paris. He organized the uprising 10 August 1792 that overthrew Louis XVI and the monarchy, roused the country to expel the Prussian invaders, and in April 1793 formed the r...
Dante Alighieri
Italian poet. His masterpiece La divina commedia/The Divine Comedy (1307–21) is an epic account in three parts of his journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, during which he is guided part of the way by the poet Virgil; on a metaphorical level, the journey is also one of Dante's own spiritual development. ...
Dampier, William
English explorer and hydrographic surveyor who circumnavigated the world three times
dance
Click images to enlargeRhythmic movement of the body, usually performed in time to music. Its primary purpose may be religious, magical, martial, social, or artistic – the last two being characteristic of nontraditional societies. The pre-Christian era had a strong tradition of ritual dance, and ancient Greek dan...
Damocles
In classical legend, a courtier of the elder Dionysius, ruler of Syracuse, Sicily. When Damocles made too much of his sovereign's good fortune, Dionysius invited him to a feast where he symbolically hung a sword over Damocles' head by a single horse-hair to demonstrate the precariousness of the happiness of kings
Damascus
Capital of Syria, on the River Barada, 100 km/62 mi southeast of Beirut; population (2003 est) 1,545,600. It produces silk, wood products, textiles, brass, and copperware. Said to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, Damascus was an ancient city even in Old Testament times. History The Assyrians destroyed Damascus in abou...
Daman and Diu
Union Territory of west India; area 110 sq km/43 sq mi; capital Daman; population (2001 est) 158,000. Daman has an area of 72 sq km/28 sq mi. The port and capital, Daman, is on the west coast, 160 km/100 mi north of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), on the estuary of the Daman Ganga River flowing in the Gulf of Khambhat. The economy...
Dalmatia
Region in Croatia. The capital is Split. It lies along the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea and includes a number of islands. The interior is mountainous. Important products are wine, olives, and fish. Notable towns in addition to the capital are Zadar, Sibenik, and Dubrovnik. History Dalmatia becam...
Dalí, Salvador Felippe Jacinto
Spanish painter, designer, and writer. Originally drawn to many modern movements, in 1929 he joined the surrealists and became one of their most notorious members, renowned for his flamboyant eccentricity. Influenced by the psychoanalytic theories and dream studies of Sigmund Freud, he developed a repertoire of striking, dreamlike, hallucinatory im...
Dalai Lama
Click images to enlargeTibetan Buddhist monk, political ruler of Tibet 1940–59, when he went into exile in protest against Chinese annexation and oppression. He has continued to campaign for self-government, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1989 for his work as spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet. ...
Daimler, Gottlieb Wilhelm
German engineer who pioneered the car and the internal-combustion engine together with Wilhelm Maybach. In 1885 he produced a motor bicycle and in 1889 his first four-wheeled motor vehicle. He combined the vaporization of fuel with the high-speed four-stroke petrol engine. Daimler's work on the internal-combustion engine beg...
day
Time taken for the Earth to rotate once on its axis. That part of the Earth's surface at any one time facing the Sun experiences day. As the Earth rotates, these parts move to face away from the Sun, receiving no direct sunlight, and experience night. The solar day is the time that the Earth takes to rotate once relative to the Sun. It is divid...
date
Click images to enlargePalm tree, also known as the date palm. The female tree produces the brown oblong fruit, dates, in bunches weighing 9–11 kg/20–25 lb. Dates are an important source of food in the Middle East, being rich in sugar; they are dried for export. The tree also supplies timber and material...
datura
Any of a group of plants belonging to the nightshade family, such as the thorn apple, with handsome trumpet-shaped blooms. They have narcotic (pain-killing and sleep-inducing) properties. (Genus Datura, family Solanaceae.)
dahlia
Any of a group of perennial plants belonging to the daisy family, comprising 20 species and many cultivated forms. Dahlias are stocky plants with tuberous roots and showy flowers that come in a wide range of colours. They are native to Mexico and Central America. (Genus Dahlia, family Compositae.)
damper
Any device that deadens or lessens vibrations or oscillations; for example, one used to check vibrations in the strings of a piano. The term is also used for the movable plate in the flue of a stove or furnace for controlling the draught
daguerreotype
In photography, a single-image process using mercury vapour and an iodine-sensitized silvered plate; it was invented by Louis Daguerre in 1838
daisy
Any of numerous species of perennial plants belonging to the daisy family, especially the field daisy of Europe and North America (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) and the English common daisy (Bellis perennis), with a single white or pink flower rising from a rosette of leaves. (Family Compositae.)
daffodil
Click images to enlargeAny of several Old World species of bulbous plants belonging to the amaryllis family, characterized by their trumpet-shaped yellow flowers which appear in spring. The common daffodil of northern Europe (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) has large yellow flowers and grows from a large...
damson
Cultivated variety of plum tree, distinguished by its small oval edible fruits, which are dark purple or blue-black in colour. (Prunus domestica var. institia.)
dandelion
Common plant throughout Europe and Asia, belonging to the same family as the daisy. The stalk rises from a rosette of leaves that are deeply indented like a lion's teeth, hence the name (from French dent de lion). The flower heads are bright yellow, and the fruit is covered wit...
damask
Textile of woven linen, cotton, wool, or silk, with a reversible figured pattern. It was first made in the city of Damascus, Syria
David, Elizabeth
English cookery writer. Her A Book of Mediterranean Food (1950) and French Country Cooking (1951) helped to spark an interest in foreign cuisine in Britain, and also inspired a growing school of informed, highly literate writing on food and wine
Dalglish, Kenny
Scottish footballer and football manager. A prolific goal scorer for Glasgow Celtic and then Liverpool, he was the first player to score 100 goals in both the English and Scottish first divisions. He won nine trophies as a player with Celtic and twelve with Liverpool including three European Cups. Overall, Dalglish made a record 102 international a...
darts
Indoor game played on a circular board. Darts (like small arrow shafts) about 13 cm/5 in long are thrown at segmented targets and score points according to their landing place. The game may have derived from target practice with broken arrow shafts in days when archery was a compulsory military exercise. The Pilgrim Fathers are believed to have...
Davis, Steve
English snooker player who won every major honour in the game after turning professional in 1978. He was world champion six times and the number one ranked player from 1981 to 1989. Career highlights World Championship 1981, 1983–84, 1987–89 Masters 1982, 1988, 1997 Grand Prix 1985, 1988, 1989 UK Championship 1980–81, 1984–87 Br...
Dafydd ap Gwilym
Welsh poet. His work exhibits a complex but graceful style, concern with nature and love rather than with heroic martial deeds, and has references to classical and Italian poetry
danegeld
In English history, a tax imposed from 991 onwards by Anglo-Saxon kings to pay tribute to the Vikings. After the Norman Conquest (1066), the tax was revived and was levied until 1162; the Normans used it to finance military operations. Danegeld was first exacted in the reign of Ethelred (II) the Unready (978–1016). This payment was dis...
Danelaw
11th-century name for the area of northern and eastern England settled by the Vikings in the 9th century. It occupied about half of England, from the River Tees to the River Thames. Within its bounds, Danish law, customs, and language prevailed, rather than West Saxon or Mercian law. Its linguist...
Daniel
Jewish folk hero and prophet at the court of Nebuchadnezzar; also the name of a book of the Old Testament, probably compiled in the 2nd century BC. It includes stories about Daniel and his companions Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, set during the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews. One of the best-known stories is that of Daniel in the den o...
damages
In law, compensation for a tort (such as personal injuries caused by negligence) or breach of contract. In the case of breach of contract the complainant can claim all the financial loss he or she has suffered. Damages for personal injuries include compensation for loss of earnings, as well as for the injury itself. The court might reduce the damag...
Darwinism, social
In US history, an influential but contentious social theory, based on the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, which claimed to offer a scientific justification for late 19th-century laissez-faire capitalism (the principle of unrestricted freedom in commerce). Popularized by academics and by entrepreneurs such as A...
Dasam Granth
Collection of the writings of the tenth Sikh guru (teacher), Gobind Singh, and of poems by a number of other writers. It is written in a script called Gurmukhi, the written form of Punjabi popularized by Guru Angad. It contains a retelling of the Krishna legends, devotional verse, and amusing anecdotes
Davis, Stuart
US abstract painter. Much of his work shows the influence of both jazz tempos and cubism in its use of hard-edged geometric shapes in primary colours and collage. In the 1920s he produced paintings of commercial packaging, such as Lucky Strike (1921; Museum of Modern Art, New York), that foreshadowed pop art
data compression
In computing, techniques for reducing the amount of storage needed for a given amount of data. They include word tokenization (in which frequently used words are stored as shorter codes), variable bit lengths (in which common characters are represented by fewer bits than less common ones), and run-length encoding (in which a repeated value is s...
Dam, Carl Peter Henrik
Danish biochemist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1943 for his discovery of vitamin K. He shared the prize with US biochemist Edward Doisy, who received the award for determining the chemical nature of vitamin K
Dacia
Ancient region covering much of modern Romania. The various Dacian tribes were united around 60 BC, and for many years posed a threat to the Roman empire; they were finally conquered by the Roman emperor Trajan AD 101–07, and the region became a province of the same name. It was abandoned by the emperor Aurelian to the invading Goths about...
Davis, Sammy, Jr
US entertainer. His starring role in the Broadway show Mr Wonderful (1956), his television work, and his roles in films with Frank Sinatra – among them, Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964) – made him a celebrity. He also appeared in the film version of the...
dawn raid
In business, sudden and unexpected buying of a significant proportion of a company's shares, usually as a prelude to a takeover bid. The aim is to prevent the target company from having time to organize opposition to the takeover
Data Protection Act 1984
UK act of Parliament designed to protect individuals who have information about them held on computer. The act obliged organizations holding personal data to register with the Data Protection Registrar and agree to abide by the principles of data protection outlined in the act. These principles include: obtaining and processing data fairly;...
Dane
People of Danish culture from Denmark and northern Germany. There are approximately 5 million speakers of Danish (including some in the USA), a Germanic language belonging to the Indo-European family. The Danes are known for their seafaring culture, which dates back to the Viking age of expansion between the 8th and 10th centuries
data communications
Sending and receiving data via any communications medium, such as a telephone line. The term usually implies that the data consist of digital signals rather than analogue signals. In the ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) system, all data – including voices and video images – are transmitted digitally. See also telecommunications
DAT
Abbreviation for digital audio tape
DAC
Abbreviation for digital-to-analogue converter
data capture
The collection of information for computer processing and analysis. Examples of automated data capture include using a sensor that continuously monitors physical conditions such as temperature, or scanning bar codes to produce detailed receipts at a shop checkout (point-of-sale terminal). Manual data capture methods include reading electric...
data logging
In computing, the process, usually automatic, of capturing and recording a sequence of values for later processing and analysis by computer. For example, the level in a water-storage tank might be automatically logged every hour over a seven-day period, so that a computer can produce an analysis of water use. The monitoring is carried out t...
data preparation
Preparing data for computer input by transferring it to a machine-readable medium or reformatting existing data for subsequent export into data analysis software. Various methods of direct data capture, such as bar codes, optical mark recognition (OMR), and optical character recognition (OCR), have been developed to reduce or eliminate lengthy ...
data security
In computing, precautions taken to prevent the loss or misuse of data, whether accidental or deliberate. These include measures that ensure that only authorized personnel can gain entry to a computer system or file, and regular procedures for storing and `backing up` data, which enable files to be retrieved or recreated in the event of lo...
Daman
Town and mainland part of the Union Territory of Daman and Diu, western India; population (2001 est) 35,400
dark matter
Hypothetical matter that, according to certain modern theories of cosmology, is thought to make up over 90% of the mass of the universe but so far remains undetected. Measurements of the mass of galaxies using modern theories showed large discrepancies in the expected values, which led scientists to the conclusion that a theoretical substance t...
dash
Punctuation mark (–) that can be used singly or in pairs (as a type of parenthesis, to mark off a clearly subordinate part of a sentence). A single dash is used to represent a sudden break or interruption in dialogue or an abrupt change of subject
