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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).
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bio-, bi-, -bia, -bial, -bian, -bion, -biont, -bius, -biosis, -bium, -biotic, -biotical
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-ology, -logy, -ologist, -logist
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dark night
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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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.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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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.
Matter or substances that are not able to be revealed by its radiation: Dark matter comprises a large portion of the universe. It cannot be seen but can be perceived through its gravitational effects.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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