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(Latin: darkness, dark)
(Latin: dark, to make dark; black; brown, tawny)
(Greek: the color black; dark)
(Greek: night; a relationship to darkness, dark)
(Latin: dark, dusky; indistinct, uncertain; unintelligible; vague; ambiguous)
(Latin: not transparent nor translucent, not clear, unable to shine through; shaded, shady; dark; no luster; not clearly understood or expressed)
(Latin: cruel, fierce; dark-looking, gloomy)
(Latin: sky-blue color; dark blue, azure)
(Greek: the color blue, dark blue)
(Greek ainigma > Latin aenigma: dark saying, riddle, fable; from ainissesthai, "to speak darkly, to speak in riddles")
(Deep-sea animals have made attempts to light their cold and dark environments by carrying their own lights on their heads and on every other conceivable part of the bodies; including their eyes and tails and the insides of their mouths. The light they shed is living light.)
(Latin: cloud, fog; shade; dark or obscure, not easy to comprehend)
(Pluto, Roman god of wealth, ruled the dark underworld of myth; ninth planet from the sun)
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dark biology
Scientific research related to biological weapons.

The phrase "dark biology" was coined by the science writer and novelist Richard Preston in his self-described "trilogy on dark biology": The Hot Zone (1994), The Cobra Event (1997), and The Demon In the Freezer (2002).

dark night
This entry is located in the following unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 6)
electrode dark current
The current that flows in a photodetector when there is no optical radiation incident on the detector and operating voltages are applied.
This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 27)
Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark.
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dark energy
Any hypothetical form of energy which produces a force that opposes gravity and is thought to be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
This entry is located in the following unit: New Words (page 1)
dark matter
Comprising a large portion of the universe including matter that can not be seen but can be perceived through its gravitational effects.
This entry is located in the following unit: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 8)