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Decathlon
- noun - an athletic contest consisting of ten different events
Deception
- noun - a misleading falsehood
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- the act of deceiving
Decession
- - Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion.
Decillion
- - According to the English notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the French and American notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [See the Note under Numeration.]
Decoction
- noun - (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling
Decoy-Man
- - A man employed in decoying wild fowl.
Decursion
- - A flowing; also, a hostile incursion.
Deduction
- noun - a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- an amount or percentage deducted
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); "he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"
Deep Down
- adverb - in reality; "she is very kind at heart"