defibrillation
— Noun
– English
～ treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)
defibrillator
— Noun
– English
～ an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation
deficiency
— Noun
– English
～ lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
deficiency
— Noun
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～ the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
deficit
— Noun
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～ (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
deficit
— Noun
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～ an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period); "last year there was a serious budgetary deficit"
deficit
— Noun
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～ the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"
deficit
— Noun
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～ a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"
defilade
— Noun
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～ the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire
defile
— Noun
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～ a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
defilement
— Noun
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～ the state of being polluted
defiler
— Noun
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～ a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment
defining
— Noun
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～ any process serving to define the shape of something
definite article
— Noun
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～ a determiner (as `the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference
definiteness
— Noun
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～ the quality of being predictable with great confidence
definition
— Noun
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～ a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
definition
— Noun
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～ clarity of outline; "exercise had given his muscles superior definition"
deflagration
— Noun
– English
～ combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat
deflation
— Noun
– English
～ (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind; "a constant deflation of the desert landscape"