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Dec.

December.

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dec.

1.	(in prescriptions) pour off. [Origin: < L décantā]

deceased.

3.	decimeter.

4.	declension.

decrease.

6.	Music. decrescendo.

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dec
noun
1.	the last (12th) month of the year [syn: December]
2.	(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 [syn: declination]

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Dec written abbreviation

December

Arabic:	شَهْر كانون ثانٍ
Chinese (Simplified):	十二月（书面语缩写式）
Chinese (Traditional):	十二月(書面語縮寫式)
Czech:	prosinec
Danish:	dec.
Estonian:	dets (lühend sõnast detsember)
French:	décembre
Greek:	Δεκέμβριος (συντομογρ.)
Hungarian:	december, dec.
Indonesian:	Des

Italian:	dic.
Latvian:	decembris
Lithuanian:	gruodis
Polish:	grudz.
Russian:	декабрь
Slovak:	december
Slovenian:	december
Spanish:	diciembre
Swedish:	december
Turkish:	Aralık

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DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation

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dec programming
/dek/ decrement, decrease by one. Especially used by assembly language programmers, as many assembly languages have a "dec" mnemonic.
Opposite: inc.
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