(medicine) A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.

Seeming to melt away. / (chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution. / (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.

(telecommunications) The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.

The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc. / The act of delivering or conveying something. / Delivery in childbirth.

(printing, usually imperative) to delete

(printing) a sign signifying deletion

(countable) A cultivated plant, belonging to the genus Delphinium, with tall blue-colored spikes containing flowers. / (countable and uncountable) A shade of blue, named for the flowers.

(military) Smoke operations which are planned with much detail for implementation over large areas or relatively long time periods.

The interruption of an outdoor event because of rain, with the expectation that it would continue later.

Any electronic system used to convert analog signals to digital (or vice versa)