decal

n 1: a design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design

to be transferred to the surface [syn: {decalcomania}]

2: the art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper

to a wood or glass or metal surface [syn: {decalcomania}]

decay

[Nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to

most array-valued expressions in {C}; they "decay into"

pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first

element. This term is not used in the official standard for

the language.

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