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Also known as Debathena and Athena 10.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Delete+%28email%29" title="Delete (email)">Delete (email)</a> — <span class="smalltext">When you delete email it is not immediately erased from the mail server or your local computer. Instead, it is marked for removal. Email marked for removal that has not been purged can be recovered. Deleted email stored on the mail server continues to count towards your quota until you purge it.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Description" title="Description">Description</a> — <span class="smalltext">Data Warehouse Explorer term: a lengthier explanation of the table or the field in a table. The table and field description contains information about the data in the table and field respectively.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DFS" title="DFS">DFS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Distributed File System. The file system used by the WIN.MIT.EDU machines (WinAthena).</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DGI" title="DGI">DGI</a> — <span class="smalltext">Diabetes Genetics Initiative (partnership between Broad Institute, Harvard, Novartis, and Lund University)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DH" title="DH">DH</a> — <span class="smalltext">Department Head</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DHCP" title="DHCP">DHCP</a> — <span class="smalltext">An Internet protocol for automating the configuration of computers that use TCP/IP.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DIC" title="DIC">DIC</a> — <span class="smalltext">Division of Industrial Cooperation (former name of the Industrial Liaison Program)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DID" title="DID">DID</a> — <span class="smalltext">Direct Inward Dial (DID) number. A DID is a telephone number that can be dialed from outside of MIT, is routed to MIT's telephone network by other carriers on whose network the number may be dialed, and is then connected to an MIT telephone by MIT's voice network. 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term to indicate an organizational unit at MIT</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DLCs" title="DLCs">DLCs</a> — <span class="smalltext">Departments, Laboratories and Centers - used to refer to all academic and research areas; may be used to include central units.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DMA" title="DMA">DMA</a> — <span class="smalltext">DuPont MIT Alliance</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DMCs" title="DMCs">DMCs</a> — <span class="smalltext">Distributed Mail Centers</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DME" title="DME">DME</a> — <span class="smalltext">Department of Mechanical Engineering</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DMSE" title="DMSE">DMSE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Department of Materials Science and Engineering</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DNS" title="DNS">DNS</a> — <span class="smalltext">An Internet service that translates domain names into IP 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href="/confluence/display/glossary/DOME" title="DOME">DOME</a> — <span class="smalltext">Distributed Object-based Modeling Environment (for designing on the web)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DormCon" title="DormCon">DormCon</a> — <span class="smalltext">Dormitory Council</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DormLine" title="DormLine">DormLine</a> — <span class="smalltext">Dormitory telephone exchange</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Double+E" title="Double E">Double E</a> — <span class="smalltext">Electrical Engineering</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Draper" title="Draper">Draper</a> — <span class="smalltext">Charles Stark Draper Lab, Inc.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Dropbox" title="Dropbox">Dropbox</a> — <span class="smalltext">Dropbox is a cloud-storage service.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DS" title="DS">DS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Departmental Services (Information Systems & Technology)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSA" title="DSA">DSA</a> — <span class="smalltext">Dean for Student Affairs (old name)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSL" title="DSL">DSL</a> — <span class="smalltext">Dean for Student Life</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSO" title="DSO">DSO</a> — <span class="smalltext">Disabilities Services Office</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSP" title="DSP">DSP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Division of Sponsored Programs (former name of the Office of Sponsored Programs)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSpace" title="DSpace">DSpace</a> — <span class="smalltext">An open-source institutional digital repository developed by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Co. to capture, store, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and research staff</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSPG" title="DSPG">DSPG</a> — <span class="smalltext">Digital Signal Processing Group (Prof. Alan Oppenheim's research group in the Research Laboratory of Electronics)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSP+Lab" title="DSP Lab">DSP Lab</a> — <span class="smalltext">Digital Signal Processing Laboratory</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSR" title="DSR">DSR</a> — <span class="smalltext">Division of Sponsored Research (former name for the Office of Sponsored Research)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DSRE" title="DSRE">DSRE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Division for Study and Research in Education (old)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DTE" title="DTE">DTE</a> — <span class="smalltext">Dance Theater Ensemble</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DU" title="DU">DU</a> — <span class="smalltext">Delta Upsilon</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DUE" title="DUE">DUE</a> — <span class="smalltext">The MIT Dean for Undergraduate Education and associated offices and business units</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DUNS" title="DUNS">DUNS</a> — <span class="smalltext">Data Universal Numbering System (MIT's DUNS number, 00-142-5594, must be included on applications for federal grants and cooperative agreements.)</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/Duo" title="Duo">Duo</a> — <span class="smalltext">A two-factor authentication system that leverages cellphones, landlines and smartphones as an "Approve" or "Deny" system to identify users.</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DUSP" title="DUSP">DUSP</a> — <span class="smalltext">Department of Urban Studies and Planning</span></li><li><a href="/confluence/display/glossary/DynaMIT" title="DynaMIT">DynaMIT</a> — <span class="smalltext">A real-time traffic management system used in the Intelligent Transportation Systems lab at MIT or a summer 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