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Discord
Discord is a communication platform combining group text chat, voice calls, and video, launched in May 2015 for gamers and reported by 2025 to have over 200 million monthly users.
Discord (My Little Pony)
Discord is the draconequus spirit of chaos in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, debuting in the 2011 season 2 premiere, voiced by John de Lancie as a Q-inspired trickster, reformed via Fluttershy, distinct from the chat app Discord.
Discordia
Discordia is the Roman goddess and personification of discord and strife, identified with the Greek Eris, known for the golden Apple of Discord that sparked the Trojan War.
Discordia Linea
Discordia Linea is an 800-km-wide linea (elongate tectonic feature) on Venus at 58.0S, 246.5E in quadrangle v60, named for the Roman war goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Discordian calendar
The Discordian calendar is the satirical liturgical calendar of Discordianism, dividing the year into five seasons of 73 days and counting years from 1166 BCE in YOLD.
Discordianism
Discordianism, also called Erisianism, is a religion, philosophy, and elaborate cosmic joke centered on Eris, the Greco-Roman goddess of discord, founded in California in the late 1950s.
Discos Peerless
Discos Peerless was a Mexican record label and manufacturer founded in Mexico City around 1929, Mexico's first major label, recording Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, and Celia Cruz.
Discosorida
Discosorida: extinct order of Paleozoic nautiloid cephalopods (Ordovician–Devonian), related to Oncocerida, with bullettes, fibralia siphuncle deposits, and genera such as Westonoceras and Paldoceras.
Discotic liquid crystal
A discotic liquid crystal is a liquid crystal formed by disc-shaped molecules with flat aromatic cores, first recognized in 1977, used in LCD compensation films and organic electronics.
Discount for lack of marketability
A discount for lack of marketability (DLOM) is a percentage deducted from an ownership interest's value to reflect illiquidity, typically 20% to 40% for private businesses.
Discount rate (central banking)
The discount rate is the interest rate a central bank charges banks for short-term collateralized loans through its standing lending facility, such as the Fed's discount window.
Discount store
A discount store is a self-service retail store selling broad general merchandise at low prices, spanning full-line discounters like Walmart and Target and hard discounters like Aldi.
Discount window
The discount window is the Federal Reserve's facility for making collateralized loans to depository institutions through the 12 Reserve Banks, serving as the banking system's backstop source of liquidity and lender of last resort.
Discounted cash flow
Discounted cash flow (DCF) is a valuation method that estimates the value of a business or asset as the present value of its expected future cash flows.
Discounted cumulative gain
Discounted cumulative gain (DCG) is a ranking evaluation metric that discounts graded relevance by rank position, introduced by Järvelin and Kekäläinen in 2002 and widely used in information retrieval.
Discouraged worker
A discouraged worker is someone who wants a job but has stopped searching because they believe no suitable work is available, so they are not counted as unemployed.
Discourse
Discourse is language used beyond the sentence, and discourse analysis is the interdisciplinary study of its structure and social function. Key markers: Zellig Harris's 1952 founding paper, approaches from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, and LLM-based discourse structure analysis.
Discourse analysis
Discourse analysis: study of language in use beyond the sentence, spanning conversation analysis, critical and Foucauldian approaches, corpus and multimodal methods, and NLP discourse processing; qualitative, context-focused, not a unitary field.
Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism (Discours sur le colonialisme) is a 1950 pamphlet by Aimé Césaire arguing that colonialism dehumanizes the colonizer, and calling Nazism colonial methods turned on Europe.
Discourse on Gambling (Boyi Lun)
Discourse on Gambling (博弈論) is an essay by Eastern Wu scholar Wei Yao, written at the command of Crown Prince Sun He, condemning gambling as useless in governing a state.
Discourse on Inequality
Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité, 1755, Second Discourse) argues moral inequality arises from property and amour propre, not nature.
Discourse on the Method
Discourse on the Method (Discours de la méthode), René Descartes's 1637 Leiden essay published anonymously in French with the Dioptrique, Météores, and Géométrie; it presents four method precepts, methodical doubt, and the cogito "I think, therefore I am."
Discourse Representation Theory
Discourse Representation Theory, introduced by Hans Kamp in 1981, is a formal semantics framework in which each sentence updates a mental representation of the discourse, handling anaphora and tense.
Discourses of Epictetus
The Discourses of Epictetus is a four-book collection of the Stoic philosopher's lectures, recorded by his student Arrian at Nicopolis around 108 AD and central to Stoic ethics.
Discourses of the States
The Discourses of the States (Guoyu, 国语) is a pre-Qin Chinese work recording speeches and words of rulers and ministers of eight states, from Zhou to Yue.
Discourses on Livy
Discourses on Livy (Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio), Machiavelli's 1531 commentary on Livy's first ten books, founding document of modern republicanism, arguing social conflict strengthens republics, paired with The Prince.
Discourses on Salt and Iron
Discourses on Salt and Iron (盐铁论) is a Han-dynasty work in sixty chapters compiled by Huan Kuan, the principal source for the Salt and Iron Conference on state monopolies.
Discover Card
Discover Card is an American credit card brand created by Sears and launched nationally in 1986 with no annual fee and cashback rewards, acquired by Capital One in 2025.
Discover Financial
Discover Financial Services was an American direct bank and payment company that issued the Discover credit card and was acquired by Capital One in May 2025.
Discover-1 trial
DISCOVER-1 (NCT03162796) is a phase 3 Lancet-published trial of guselkumab (Tremfya) in active psoriatic arthritis; 381 patients, about 30% TNFi-experienced; ACR20 at week 24 was 59% (Q4W) and 52% (Q8W) versus 22% placebo. Distinct from the DISCOVER HIV and stent trials.