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Definition of dii in English English dictionary
- Defence Information Infrastructure
- Defense Information Infrastructure
- Division of Information Infrastructure; former name of OIT (Office of Information Technology)
- Dynamic Invocation Interface, interface to execute dynamic invocations in opposition to static invocations (clent side)
- DII defines the client's side of the interface that allows dynamic creation and invocation of requests to objects The DII is another way to invoke a server's operations without using the stub (See definition for stub )
- DownloadInfoIndication
- See: Defense Information Infrastructure
- Dii Majores
- By extension, any illustrious or eminent group of people, not necessarily twelve in number; most frequently applied to writers of literature
the twelve Di Majores of Latin letters.
- Dii Majores
- The twelve great gods of Roman mythology, namely Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, Vulcan, and Apollo
- dii ex machina
- plural form of deus ex machina
For when a book is of absorbing interest without a single startling incident, without a murder, without even an elopement (except a very minor one mentioned in the first chapter), and deprived of the adventitious aids of railway accidents, shipwrecks, or other dii ex machina, we may be sure that there is much nature and much thought in it. Were there not it must infallibly be dull, and The Egoist is never dull.
- dii ex machinis
- plural form of deus ex machina
In John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), the ludicrously contrived last-minute rescue of Maceath works as a deliberate deflation of opera’s various dii ex machinis.