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Main meanings of D in English

: d1D2D3

D1

Pronunciation /diː/

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nounplural noun Ds, plural noun D's

(also d)

  • 1The fourth letter of the alphabet.

    • ‘Each half resembles a uppercase letter D, so the two parts of the cyclotron are known as dees.’
    1. 1.1Denoting the fourth in a set of items, categories, sizes, etc.
    2. 1.2The fourth-highest category of academic mark.
    3. 1.3dChess Denoting the fourth file from the left, as viewed from White's side of the board.
    4. 1.4Denoting the second-lowest-earning socio-economic category for marketing purposes, including semi-skilled and unskilled personnel.

  • 2

    (also D)
    A shape like that of a capital D.

    • ‘the D-shaped handle’
    1. 2.1A loop or ring in the shape of a capital D.
      • ‘a saddle with stainless steel dees’
    2. 2.2(in some team sports) the marked semicircular area in front of or surrounding the goal at each end of the pitch or court.
      • ‘she completed the scoring in the final five minutes, running into the D and shooting into the bottom right corner’
    3. 2.3DA semicircle marked on a billiard table in the baulk area, with its diameter part of the baulk line, within which a player must place the cue ball when breaking off or restarting from hand.

  • 3usually DMusic
    The second note of the diatonic scale of C major.

    1. 3.1A key based on a scale with D as its keynote.

  • 4The Roman numeral for 500.

    Origin

    Understood as half of CIƆ, an earlier form of M (= 1,000).

Main meanings of D in English

: d1D2D3

D2

Pronunciation /diː/

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abbreviation

  • 1(in the US) Democrat or Democratic.

    • ‘Delaware: breakdown of outgoing Senate: 13 D, 8 R’

  • 2Depth (in the sense of the dimension of an object from front to back)

    • ‘H 35 cm × W 50 cm × D 20 cm’

  • 3Chemistry
    Dextrorotatory.

    • ‘D-glucose’

  • 4(with a numeral) dimension(s) or dimensional.

    • ‘a 3-D model’

  • 5(in tables of sports results) drawn.

  • 6(on an automatic gear shift) drive.

  • 7Germany (international vehicle registration).

    Origin

    From German Deutschland.

  • 1Physics
    Electric flux density.

  • 2Chemistry
    The hydrogen isotope deuterium.

Main meanings of d in English

: d1D2D3

d3

Pronunciation /diː/

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abbreviation

  • 1(in genealogies) daughter.

    • ‘Henry m. Georgina 1957, 1s 2d’

  • 2Day(s)

    • ‘orbital period (Mars): 687.0 d’

  • 3in combination (in units of measurement) deci-.

  • 4(in travel timetables) departs.

    • ‘Plymouth d 0721’

  • 5d.Died (used to indicate a date of death)

    • ‘Barents, Willem (d.1597)’

  • 6British Penny or pence (of pre-decimal currency)

    • ‘£20 10s 6d’

    Origin

    From Latin denarius ‘penny’.

  • 7Chemistry
    Denoting electrons and orbitals possessing two units of angular momentum.

    • ‘d-electrons’

    Origin

    Dfrom diffuse, originally applied to lines in atomic spectra.

Mathematics

  • 1Diameter.

    • ‘the circumference of a circle is expressed by the formula πd’

  • 2Denoting a small increment in a given variable.

    • ‘dy/dx’