Glossary D
Driftnet is characterized as a large gillnet ranging in length up to 40 miles, a driftnet is suspended vertically with floats and allowed to drift freely in the open ocean.
Dresser refers to a species of sideboard; a chest for the storage of cosmetics and clothing; long, low chest of drawers about 36 inches high by 6 feet or wider used for storing small pieces of clothing, like underwears.
Disposal means the final disposal of a substance to land fill, land application or underground injection, either on the facility site or at an off-site location.
Disperse dye is a substantially water-insoluble dye having substantivity for one or more hydrophobic fibres, e.g. cellulose acetate, and usually applied from fine aqueous dispersion.
Direct process end use defined as those end uses that are specific to the carrying out of manufacturing. They include process heating, process cooling and refrigeration, machine drive, electrochemical processes, and other process uses.
The Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) refers to a technology for bringing high-bandwidth information to homes and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines.