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Princeton's WordNet

  1. December, Decnoun

    the last (12th) month of the year

  2. declination, celestial latitude, decnoun

    (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere

ChatGPT

  1. dec

    Dec is an abbreviation that can refer to: 1) December - the 12th and final month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 2) Decimal - a number system based on ten. 3) Decade - a period of 10 years. 4) Deci - a metric prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of tenth. 5) Declination - a term used in astronomy representing the distance of a celestial body north or south of the celestial equator. 6) Decision - a choice made between two or more alternatives. The exact meaning typically depends on the context in which the abbreviation is used.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. DEC

    n. Commonly used abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation, later deprecated by DEC itself in favor of “Digital” and now entirely obsolete following the buyout by Compaq. Before the killer micro revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines. The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see TMRC). Subsequently, the PDP-6, PDP-10, PDP-20, PDP-11 and VAX were all foci of large and important hackerdoms, and DEC machines long dominated the ARPANET and Internet machine population. DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era (roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace microcomputers and Unix early cost it heavily in profits and prestige after silicon got cheap. Nevertheless, the microprocessor design tradition owes a major debt to the PDP-11 instruction set, and every one of the major general-purpose microcomputer OSs so far (CP/M, MS-DOS, Unix, OS/2, Windows NT) was either genetically descended from a DEC OS, or incubated on DEC hardware, or both. Accordingly, DEC was for many years still regarded with a certain wry affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC machines.

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  1. DEC

    What does DEC stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DEC acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DEC

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dec is ranked #25295 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Dec surname appeared 979 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Dec.

    96.1% or 941 total occurrences were White.
    1.2% or 12 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.1% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.5% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

Anagrams for DEC »

  1. CDE

  2. CED

  3. ECD

  4. EDC

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DEC in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DEC in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of DEC in a Sentence

  1. Irene Chavez:

    A staff member did appear briefly in the emergency department on Dec. 25th wearing an air-powered costume, any exposure, if it occurred, would have been completely innocent, and quite accidental, as the individual had no Covid symptoms and only sought to lift the spirits of those around them during what is a very stressful time.

  2. Guillaume Faury:

    It would really be a pity that after so many years of preparation there is no deal at the end. I think it would be much better for the EU and the UK to have an orderly Brexit, this being said, if there is no deal we will have to live with it. There will be a more difficult transition on Dec. 31 and we are preparing ourselves for some logistical issues, but we don’t think this is going to be unmanageable.

  3. Patrick Hartigan in a statement:

    On the evening of closest approach on Dec( ember) 21 they will look like a double planet, separated by only 1/5th the diameter of the full Moon, for most telescope viewers, each planet and several of their largest moons will be visible in the same field of view that evening.

  4. Gavin Newsom:

    ( California) has worked hard to prepare for a surge - but we ca n’t sustain the record high cases we’re seeing, current projections show CA will run out of current ICU beds before Christmas Eve.The governor told reporters discussions were underway among state health officials over the potential stay-at-home order. Christmas Eve.The governor expects to issue a decision in the next day or two.Last week Christmas Eve.The governor ordered a daily curfew barring social gatherings and other non-essential activities across most of the state between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily.Newsom, who has largely banned indoor dining in the state, has apologized after photos surfaced of the first-term Democrat eating dinner with 11 other people, including a prominent lobbyist, at a French restaurant near Napa. None wore masks.More than 4.2 million new COVID-19 infections and 36,000 COVID-19 related deaths were reported across the United States in November, according to a Reuters tally. Hospitalizations are at a pandemic high and deaths the most in six months.Slideshow( 4 images) Nearly 93,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, up 11 % from last week and double the number reported a month ago, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county public health reports.Americans who have endured eight months of restrictions, lockdown and business closures in the face of the pandemic are pinning their hopes on vaccines developed by drug companies Pfizer Inc and Moderna that are awaiting U.S. government approval for emergency use.VACCINES BY CHRISTMAS?U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said Pfizer’s medication could be authorized and shipped within days of a Dec. 10 meeting of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration.Moderna’s vaccine could follow a week later, Health Secretary Alex Azar said, after the company announced on Monday it would apply for emergency authorization both in the U.S. and Europe.

  5. Lynden Pioneer Museum:

    The museum will be returning these guns to their owners because as of Dec. 4, we would be in violation of the law if we had loaned firearms that had not undergone the background check procedure.

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