Glossary D
Digital refers to a signal that consists of discrete states. A binary signal has only two states, 0 and 1.
Deutsch: Bagger / Español: Dragador / Português: Draga / Français: Dragueur / Italiano: Dragatore
A Dredger is a highly specialized piece of industrial equipment, often described as a self-propelled vessel, used to remove and transport sediment, silt, or debris from the bed of a river, port, estuary, or other body of water. They are fundamental to maritime infrastructure, operating across the mining, construction, and environmental industries to maintain waterways, reclaim land, or extract valuable seabed materials.
Driftnet is characterized as a large gillnet ranging in length up to 40 miles, a driftnet is suspended vertically with floats and allowed to drift freely in the open ocean.
Dresser refers to a species of sideboard; a chest for the storage of cosmetics and clothing; long, low chest of drawers about 36 inches high by 6 feet or wider used for storing small pieces of clothing, like underwears.
Disposal means the final disposal of a substance to land fill, land application or underground injection, either on the facility site or at an off-site location.
Disperse dye is a substantially water-insoluble dye having substantivity for one or more hydrophobic fibres, e.g. cellulose acetate, and usually applied from fine aqueous dispersion.
Direct process end use defined as those end uses that are specific to the carrying out of manufacturing. They include process heating, process cooling and refrigeration, machine drive, electrochemical processes, and other process uses.