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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DMA Direct Memory Access. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Geological | The DMA was established in 1972, when mapping, charting, and geodesy functions of the Defense Community were combined into this joint Department of Defense agency. The mission of the Agency is to: produce and distribute to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unified and specified commands, military departments, and other department of defense users, timely and uniquely tailored mapping, charting, and geodetic products, services, and training; provide nautical charts and marine navigational data to worldwide merchant marine and private vessel operators; and maintain liaison with civil agencies and other national and international scientific and other organizations engaged in mapping, charting, and geodetic activities. The above activities were handled by the DMA Combat Support Center until the Center was disbanded in 1995 and responsibilities were transferred to the National Imagery Mapping Agency (NIMA) (Defense Mapping Agency). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DMA."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DMA | English | Document Management Alliance | N/A |
DMA | French | Commonwealth de la Dominique | Geography, Law |
DMA | German | Direkter Speicherzugriff | Computing |
DMA | Italian | Accesso diretto alla memoria | Computing |
DMA | Portuguese | Acesso Directo à Memória | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DMA |
| Specialty definitions using "DMA": Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions ♦ Direct Memory Access ♦ Filtabyte, First Party DMA ♦ Intel 80186 ♦ NIMA ♦ SC/MP, SCMP, SCSI adaptor ♦ Ultra DMA ♦ virtual cache ♦ XT bus architecture. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DMA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (direct memory access). |
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Economic History | South Africa | These companies, in a trend that is likely to continue over the next few years, view the DMA as a major center in their global sourcing operations. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DMA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "DMA" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DMA": first Party DMA ♦ ultra DMA. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DMA": grandma. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DMA": adman, admass, admasses, aidman, badman, bandmaster, bandmasters, beadman, bedmaker, bedmakers, bedmate, bedmates, birdman, boardman, bondmaid, bondmaids, bondman, broodmare, broodmares, coastguardman, freedman, goodman, grandmas, grandmaster, grandmasters, groundmass, groundmasses, handmade, handmaid, handmaiden, handmaidens, handmaids, headman, headmaster, headmasters, headmastership, headmasterships, herdman, husbandman, landman, landmark, landmarks, landmass, landmasses, leadman, loadmaster, loadmasters, madman, reedman, roadmap, roadmaps. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dam, mad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-m" | |
-1 letter: ad, am, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-m" | |
+1 letter: amid, dame, damn, damp, dams, dram, duma, made, mads, maid, maud, mead. | |
+2 letters: adeem, adman, admen, admit, admix, aimed, almud, amend, amide, amido, amids, armed, daman, damar, dames, damns, damps, datum, derma, dogma, dolma, domal, douma, drama, drams, dream, dumas, dumka, dunam, edema, famed, gamed, lamed, maced, madam, madly, madre, maids, maned, mated, mauds, maund, mawed, mayed, mazed, meads, medal, media, menad, modal, monad, mudra, named, nomad, tamed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4D 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. -- .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001101 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D M A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004D 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)384735 |
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