In the Ptolemaic system of planetary motion, a point to one side of the Earth with respect to which an epicycle would have uniform angular motion.
Applied to a clast whose dimensions are broadly similar on each of its long, intermediate, and short axes. See particle shape.
- deviance information criterion
- deviance residual
- deviant causal chain
- deviation
- deviation distortion
- deviation ratio
- deviatoric stress
- device
- device convergence
- device coordinates
- device driver
- device driver virus
- Deville, Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire
- devil’s staircase
- devitrification
- devolution
- Devolution, War of
- Devonian
- Devonshire, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of (1720–64)
- de Vries cycle
- De Vries, Hugo
- dew
- dewar
- Dewar benzene
- Dewar flask