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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"
Defecator
- noun - a person who defecates
Defection
- noun - the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"
Deflation
- noun - (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"
- a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices
- the act of letting the air out of something
Deflector
- noun - a device intended to turn aside the flow of something (water or air or smoke etc)
Deflexion
- noun - a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
- the amount by which a propagating wave is bent
- the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
- the property of being bent or deflected
Defluxion
- - A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.
Dejection
- noun - a state of melancholy depression
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Delapsion
- - A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.