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Discretion
- noun - freedom to act or judge on one's own
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"
- refined taste; tact
- the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
- the trait of judging wisely and objectively; "a man of discernment"
Disjection
- - Destruction; dispersion.
Disruption
- noun - a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
- an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
- the act of causing disorder
Dissection
- noun - a minute and critical analysis
- cutting so as to separate into pieces
- detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work)
Distention
- noun - the act of expanding by pressure from within
- the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions
Distortion
- noun - a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"
- a change for the worse
- a shape resulting from distortion
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
Diurnation
- - Continuance during the day.
Divagation
- noun - a message that departs from the main subject
- 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"
Divination
- noun - a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
- successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
- the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means