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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.
Discoverer
Discoverer was the public cover name of a US satellite series launched from Vandenberg between 1959 and 1962, masking the classified CORONA film-return spy satellite program.
Discoveries of exoplanets
The discoveries of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, began with confirmed detections in 1992 and now total more than 6,400 confirmed worlds, found mainly by transit and radial-velocity methods.
Discovery (Daft Punk album)
Discovery (2001) is the second studio album by French electronic duo Daft Punk, also known as their robot-era debut. Released 12 March 2001 on Virgin, its 14 tracks of filtered disco, vocoder pop, and samples like Eddie Johns's "More Spell on You" reshaped dance music and later anchored the anime film Interstella 5555.
Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)
Discovery (1979) is ELO's eighth studio album, produced by Jeff Lynne at Musicland Studios, Munich. First ELO album without strings, first UK number-one, five hit singles including Don't Bring Me Down.
Discovery (law)
Discovery (law) is the pretrial phase of civil litigation in which parties obtain evidence via depositions, interrogatories, and document requests; in US federal courts it is governed by FRCP Rules 26 to 37, with proportionality as the central limit.
Discovery and commercialization of archaeal enzymes
The discovery and commercialization of archaeal enzymes covers how polymerases from vent archaea like Thermococcus litoralis and Pyrococcus furiosus became patented, higher-fidelity alternatives to Taq in PCR.