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Definition: Dec

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. (astronomy) the angular distance to a point on a celestial object measured north or south from the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere.[Wordnet]
2. The last (12th) month of the year.[Wordnet].

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"DEC" is a common misspelling or typo for: deck, EEC, sec, DCE, Dev, DSC, DEF, CEC, FEC, decs, DECT, Deca.

Date "DEC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1482. (references)

Specialty Definition: Dec

Domain Definition
Computing DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a `dec' mnemonic. Antonym: inc. 2. n. Commonly used abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation, later deprecated by DEC itself in favor of "Digital" and now entirely obsolete following the buyout by Compaq. Before the killer micro revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines. The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see TMRC). Subsequently, the PDP-6, PDP-10, PDP-20, PDP-11 and VAX were all foci of large and important hackerdoms, and DEC machines long dominated the ARPANET and Internet machine population. DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era (roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace microcomputers and Unix early cost it heavily in profits and prestige after silicon got cheap. Nevertheless, the microprocessor design tradition owes a major debt to the PDP-11 instruction set, and every one of the major general-purpose microcomputer OSs so far (CP/M, MS-DOS, Unix, OS/2, Windows NT) was either genetically descended from a DEC OS, or incubated on DEC hardware, or both. Accordingly, DEC was for many years still regarded with a certain wry affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC machines. DEC reclaimed some of its old reputation among techies in the first half of the 1990s. The success of the Alpha, an innovatively-designed and very high-performance killer micro, helped a lot. So did DEC's newfound receptiveness to Unix and open systems in general. When Compaq acquired DEC at the end of 1998 there was some concern that these gains would be lost along with the DEC nameplate, but the merged company has so far turned out to be culturally dominated by the ex-DEC side. Source: Jargon File.
Aerospace 1: 1) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION 2) DECLINATION. (references)
  2: December. (references)
  3: Digital Equipment Corporation. (references)
  4: Declination. (references)
Aging Data Entry Clerk. (references)
Census (Digital Equipment Corporation) A minicomputer manufacturing corporation that provided computer support for the 1990 decennial census. (references)
Environment Data Equipment Corporation. (references)
Health Dual Entitlement Code. (references)
Public Administration New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. (references)
Technology 1: Decode. (references)
  2: Digital Extended Command. (references)
  3: Decrease. (references)
  4: Department of Environmental Conservation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: Dec

Expressions Definition
Ant and Dec Anthony McPartlin (born on November 18, 1975) and Declan Donnelly (born on September 25, 1975), more commonly known as Ant and Dec, are popular presenters of light entertainment television programmes in the United Kingdom. (references)
Dec 24 The day before Christmas. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Dec 25 A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
DEC BASIC DEC BASIC was an extended dialect of BASIC developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (a.k.a. DEC) for use on its OpenVMS operating system for the Alpha series of 64-bit minicomputers in the 1990s. (references)
DEC Multia The Multia, later re-branded the Universal Desktop Box, is a line of computer workstations produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation in the mid-1990s. The line is notable in that units were offered with either an Alpha AXP or Intel Pentium processor as the CPU, and most hardware other than the backplane and CPU were interchangeable. Both the Alpha AXP and Intel Pentium versions were intended to run Windows NT. (references)
DEC PRISM PRISM, for Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Machine, was a 32-bit RISC CPU design from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was the final outcome of a number of DEC-internal research projects from the 1982-85 time-frame, and was at the point of delivering silicon in 1988 when management cancelled the project. The next year work on the DEC Alpha started. (references)
DEC Systems Research Center The Systems Research Center (SRC) was a research laboratory created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1984, in Palo Alto, California. (references)
Francis E. Dec Francis E. Dec is, or was, a noted American from Hempstead, New York apparently of Slovenian descent. He is classified by some as a kook. (references)
OCT 31 = DEC 25 OCT 31 = DEC 25 is a mathematical riddle. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: Dec

Expressions Domain Definition
DEC Alpha Art See Alpha processor. (references)
DEC Alpha Computing DEC Alpha A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz. (1998-03-17). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..
DEC Wars Computing DEC Wars A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused. [Jargon File]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..
DEC Wars Computing DEC Wars n. A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called Unix WARS (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/unixwars.html); the two are often confused. Source: Jargon File..
Ex dec Transportation Contraction for "Shipper's Export Declaration." (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Dec

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
DEC Dutch Netnummer van opgeroepen abonnee Electrical Engineering
DEC English Donnan Exclusion Chromatography N/A
DEC French Décembre Geography, Meteorology & Standards
DEC German Dezember Geography, Meteorology & Standards
DEC Italian Dicembre Geography, Meteorology & Standards
DEC Spanish Código de la central de destino Electrical Engineering
Dec. English Declination Physics
DEC,missiles French Décodeur Military & Defense
Dec. Italian Decisione N/A
DEC, misiles Spanish Descifrador Military & Defense
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Extended Definition: Dec

Dec

DEC, dec or Dec may refer to:


  • Deč, a village in Serbia
  • Francis E. Dec, a conspiracy theorist
  • Decatur Airport, Decatur, Illinois (ICAO airport code)
  • December, a month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar
  • Decent, average.
  • Declan Donnelly (Ant & Dec), a United Kingdom television presenter
  • Declination, a term from astronomy
  • Department of Environment and Conservation, Australia
  • Derwent Entertainment Centre, an entertainment centre in Hobart, Australia
  • Diethylcarbamazine, an anti-parasite drug
  • Digital Equipment Corporation, a computer and technology company
  • Diplome d’Études Collegiales, a college studies diploma issued in Quebec
  • Disasters Emergency Committee, coordinates 13 disaster relief charities in the United Kingdom
  • Doncaster Education City, a development in South Yorkshire
  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Oratorical Declamation, an event in competitive debate

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Dec". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: Dec

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Ant & Dec 43     Ant & Dec 43
DEC Alpha 36     Dec 3
Francis E. Dec 22     DEC 3000 AXP 16
DEC 3000 AXP 16     DEC Alpha 36
Sa Dec 11     DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11 7
DEC Professional 11     DEC Firefly 5
DEC Multia 10     DEC Multia 10
DEC Professional (computer) 9     DEC PRISM 9
DEC PRISM 9     DEC Professional 11
DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11 7     DEC Professional (computer) 9
Slap Bang with Ant & Dec 6     DEC SED (text editor) 5
DEC Systems Research Center 5     DEC Systems Research Center 5
DEC SED (text editor) 5     Francis E. Dec 22
DEC Firefly 5     Sa Dec 11
Dec 3     Slap Bang with Ant & Dec 6

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Translations: Dec

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bahasa Malaysia Dis (Dec). Additional references: Bahasa Malaysia, Malaysia, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Bahasa Malayu Dis (Dec). Additional references: Bahasa Malayu, Malaysia, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Capeverdian Dizembru (December, Dec, Decembers). Additional references: Capeverdian, France, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 十二月 (December, twelfth month, Dec), 十进位 (Dec), 小数位 (Dec). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 十二月 (December, twelfth month, Dec), 迪吉多電腦公司 (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse Dégéinbri (Dec, December, Decembers), Dicèmbre (December, Dec, Decembers), Dicembre (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi Dégéinbri (Dec, December, Decembers), Dicèmbre (December, Dec, Decembers), Dicembre (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican Dégéinbri (Dec, December, Decembers), Dicèmbre (December, Dec, Decembers), Dicembre (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso Dégéinbri (Dec, December, Decembers), Dicèmbre (December, Dec, Decembers), Dicembre (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu Dégéinbri (Dec, December, Decembers), Dicèmbre (December, Dec, Decembers), Dicembre (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Creole Désanm (December, Dec, Decembers). Additional references: Creole, Caribbean, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Dezember (December, Dec, Decembers), Dec (dec). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Français décembre (December, Dec, Decembers), décédé (died, deceased, late, dec, defunct), deceased (d, dec), déc (dec, Dez). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
French décembre (December, Dec, Decembers), décédé (died, deceased, late, dec, defunct), deceased (d, dec), déc (dec, Dez). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Fula Lewru desaambur (December, Dec, Decembers), Desaambur (December, Dec, Decembers). Additional references: Fula, West Africa, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
German Dezember (December, Dec, Decembers), Dec (dec). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Guadeloupe Creole Désanm (December, Dec, Decembers). Additional references: Guadeloupe Creole, Guadeloupe, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 선언 (declaration, proclamation, pronouncement, enunciation, manifesto). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 선언 (declaration, proclamation, pronouncement, enunciation, manifesto). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Dezember (December, Dec, Decembers), Dec (dec). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Dezember (December, Dec, Decembers), Dec (dec). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Hungarian December (December, Dec). Additional references: Hungarian, Hungary, Austria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian Dic (Dec), decelerazione di traslazione (shift Dec). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese デック (Dec), 天皇誕生日 (emperor's birthday holiday, Dec, The Emperor's Birthday). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Kisuaheli Desemba (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Kisuaheli, Tanzania, Burundi, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Kiswahili Desemba (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Kiswahili, Tanzania, Burundi, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 선언 (declaration, proclamation, pronouncement, enunciation, manifesto). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Latvian firma Digital Equipment Corporation (Dec, digital equipment corporation), firma DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation), DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Latvian, Latvia, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Latviska firma Digital Equipment Corporation (Dec, digital equipment corporation), firma DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation), DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Latviska, Latvia, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Lettisch firma Digital Equipment Corporation (Dec, digital equipment corporation), firma DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation), DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Lettisch, Latvia, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Lettish firma Digital Equipment Corporation (Dec, digital equipment corporation), firma DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation), DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Lettish, Latvia, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Magyar December (December, Dec). Additional references: Magyar, Hungary, Austria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Malay Dis (Dec). Additional references: Malay, Malaysia, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Malayu Dis (Dec). Additional references: Malayu, Malaysia, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Marseillais Desèmbre (December, Dec). Additional references: Marseillais, France, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Melaju Dis (Dec). Additional references: Melaju, Malaysia, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Melayu Dis (Dec). Additional references: Melayu, Malaysia, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish rozkład (schedule, decomposition, distribution, decay, rot). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch rozkład (schedule, decomposition, distribution, decay, rot). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski rozkład (schedule, decomposition, distribution, decay, rot). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian фирма DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration) firma DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki фирма DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration) firma DEC (Dec, digital equipment corporation). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Sakalava Asotry (December, Dec, Decembers). Additional references: Sakalava, Madagascar, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Savoyard Décinbro (December, Dec, Decembers). Additional references: Savoyard, France, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Serbian (transliteration) sanduk (chest, crate, hull, ark, bin), orman (locker, cabinet, chest, commode, cuddy), kutija (box, chest, receptacle, bin, binnacle), digital equipment corporation (Dec). Additional references: Serbian (transliteration), Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Shimaoré Desambru (December, Dec, Decembers). Additional references: Shimaoré, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish dic (Dec). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Standard Malay Dis (Dec). Additional references: Standard Malay, Malaysia, Brunei, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Swahili Desemba (December, Decembers, Dec). Additional references: Swahili, Tanzania, Burundi, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish Ara (intermediate, interlude, intermission, interval, space), Aralık (December, interval, aperture, gap, space). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, Dec. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Dec

Language Translations for “Dec” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag dathagec (dec). Additional references: Athag, Dec. (volunteer)
Double Dutch dagec (dec). Additional references: Double Dutch, Dec. (volunteer)
Leet |)&[ (dec). Additional references: Leet, Dec. (volunteer)
Oppish dopec (dec). Additional references: Oppish, Dec. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Ecday (Dec). Additional references: Pig Latin, Dec. (volunteer)
Terran B Dicemb (Dec). Additional references: Terran B, Dec. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi dubec (dec). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Dec. (volunteer)
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