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Dassault Falcon 7X

The Dassault Falcon 7X is a three-engine, ultra-long-range business jet built by French maker Dassault Aviation, the first business jet with digital fly-by-wire controls, delivered from 2007 to 2023.

Dassault Falcon 900

The Dassault Falcon 900, known in RAF service as the Dassault Envoy IV, is a French three-engine long-range business jet built by Dassault Aviation since 1986, culminating in the Falcon 900LX.

Dassault Mercure

The Dassault Mercure was a French short-haul twinjet airliner for roughly 150 passengers, conceived as a Boeing 737 competitor and flown only by Air Inter from 1974 to 1995.

Dassault Mirage 2000

The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French single-engine, delta-wing multirole fighter developed by Dassault Aviation, first flown in 1978, with about 600 built and half exported.

Dassault Mirage 2000N/2000D

The Dassault Mirage 2000N and 2000D are two-seat strike variants of the Mirage 2000 built for the French Air Force, the N nuclear and the D conventional.

Dassault Mirage 4000

The Dassault Mirage 4000, also marketed as the Super Mirage 4000, was a French twin-engine prototype fighter first flown in 1979 that no air force ever ordered.

Dassault Mirage 5

The Dassault Mirage 5, or Mirage V, is a French delta-wing fighter-bomber first flown in 1967, a simplified, radar-less derivative of the Mirage III E.

Dassault Mirage F1

The Dassault Mirage F1 is a French supersonic fighter and attack aircraft built by Dassault Aviation, the French Air Force's principal interceptor from 1974 to 2014.

Dassault Mirage III

The Dassault Mirage III is a French delta-wing fighter-bomber, first flown in 1956, that became the first western European aircraft to reach Mach 2 in level flight.

Dassault Mirage IV

The Dassault Mirage IV was a French twin-engine supersonic strategic bomber, the first delivery system of France's independent nuclear deterrent, serving with the Armée de l'Air from 1964 to 2005.

Dassault Mystère IV

The Dassault Mystère IV, derived from the Mystère II, was a French single-seat fighter-bomber. It achieved a transonic milestone in 1953 and was exported to Israel and India.

Dassault nEUROn

The Dassault nEUROn is a European stealth jet-powered combat drone technology demonstrator led by Dassault Aviation, uniting six countries' aerospace industries, first flown at Istres, France, in 2012.

Dassault Rafale

The Dassault Rafale, also called the Dassault-Breguet Rafale, is a French twin-engine multirole fighter built by Dassault Aviation, able to fly air superiority, ground attack, and nuclear deterrence missions.

Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, also known as Dassault Systèmes SE, is a French software company founded in 1981 by engineers from Dassault Aviation, known for its CATIA and SOLIDWORKS design software.

Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard

The Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard, also Super Etendard, is a French carrier-based strike aircraft serving from 1978 to 2016, famous for Argentine Exocet attacks that sank two British ships in the 1982 Falklands War.

Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet

The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet is a twin-engine subsonic jet trainer and light attack aircraft jointly developed by France and West Germany, first flown in 1973, with about 500 built.

Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 is a United Kingdom act reforming data protection law and regulating digital verification, Smart Data schemes, and automated decisions.

Data access object

The data access object (DAO) pattern is a software design pattern in which an object provides an abstract interface for reading and writing a data source.

Data age and temporal mixture effects

Data age and temporal mixture effects describe how the age of a language model's pretraining data affects its performance, degrading about 2.8 points per year of misalignment.

Data analyst

Data analyst: professional who collects, cleans, models and communicates data to support decisions; also called junior or departmental analyst. UK Level 4 standard, four government role levels, £28,000 to £65,000 pay, SQL and visualisation core skills.

Data and Reality

Data and Reality (1978) by William Kent, subtitled Basic Assumptions in Data Processing Reconsidered, is a classic data modeling book arguing data structures are imperfect maps of reality; reissued in 2012 with Steve Hoberman.

Data annotation

Data annotation is the process of attaching human labels to images, text, audio, or video so machine learning models can be trained and tested against it.

Data anonymization

Data anonymization is the processing of personal data so individuals can no longer be identified, even with other reasonably available information; it is the strictest form of de-identification.

Data architect

Data architect: senior IT role defining an organization's data policies, models, and technologies; distinct from data engineer; spans EDW, data lake, and cloud/AI architectures; US average pay about $135,377 (2024).

Data architecture

Data architecture: the design discipline defining how organizations collect, store, transform, and govern data. Also spans data warehouse, lake, lakehouse, mesh, and fabric patterns; evolves from EDW to active-metadata and AI-native designs.

Data at rest

Data at rest is stationary data on persistent storage like databases, file shares, backups, and cloud buckets, one of three data states alongside data in transit and data in use.

Data breach

A data breach is an event in which protected data is accessed or disclosed by someone not authorized, ranging from a lost laptop to ransomware campaigns.

Data breach notification law

A data breach notification law is a statute requiring organizations to notify individuals, and often regulators, when a breach compromises personal data, first enacted in California in 2003.

Data buffer

A data buffer, also called packet buffering or buffer memory, is a region of memory holding data temporarily while it moves, bridging speed and timing differences.

Data catalog

Data catalog: a searchable inventory of an organization's data assets, built from metadata such as ownership, lineage, glossary, and classifications, that supports discovery and governance; it stores metadata, not the data itself. In lakehouses, the term also names the technical metastore (Hive Metastore, Glue, Unity Catalog, Polaris).