dec
IPA: dˈɛk
Root Word: Dec
noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Declan.
- Digital Equipment Corporation, a defunct American computer and technology company.
- Abbreviation of December. [The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.]
- Initialism of diethylcarbamazine. [A synthetic anthelmintic drug.]
- Initialism of diethyl carbonate. [(organic chemistry) an ester of carbonic acid and ethanol with the formula OC(OCH₂CH₃)₂]
- (dermatology) Initialism of desquamated epithelial cell.
- (programming) Abbreviation of decrement. [(countable) A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions.]
- Abbreviation of declaration. [A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, intention, belief, etc.]
- Abbreviation of decoration. [The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.]
verb
- (knitting) Abbreviation of decrease. [(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.]
adjective
- (cricket) declared
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Examples of "dec" in Sentences
- The confusion between dec and dms.
- Thanks for the notice about the Dec.
- There has been additions to it in Dec.
- The on sale date for the issue is Dec 30.
- A shortening and alteration of dec laration .
- Dec then became a lawyer, an attorney at law.
- By Dec. 11, we are cramming for the big exam.
- As such, the DEC wants it removed for this reason.
- I caught the colloquy about the lead on Dec. 12 above.
- If doe numbers need reducing and you have a tag in dec/jan, I say take em.
- The election committee also decided to reschedule elections' polls for Dec 02, 2012 on account of Ashura.
- When game look upward thru the branches in dec it will see brown branches and either light blue or grey sky.
- SanDiegoInjury: @walterolson @Chris_Davis says the OK law would be better if it also required a dec from the Dr that he wasn't negligent.
- I went to an overstocked pond in dec/jan one a sunny day and pulled out 7 or 8 half pounders in about an hour and a half on a rat-l-trap but other than that havent had too much success bass fishin in the winter
- You will find the hornady sst and sockwaves to be just about the same, because hornady makes the sockwaves for TC. I killed a 143 whitetail in dec. this year with the bonded sockwave 250gr. a pass thu shot in the rib cage.
- I had a look into stty to see if I could work out what was going on. stty controls your terminal line settings, and it has a slightly alarming array of options (see the man page for full details). stty - a shows the current settings. stty dec is shorthand for setting several options at once: echoe: Echo erase characters as backspace-space-backspace.