Editing HorizonVirtual:The Waker Dictionary (section)

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==Data Access Port==
(noun) The gateway between a [[#System|system]] and a [[#Pathway|pathway]], a Data Access Port is the most regulated entry and exit point for a system. As an individual pathway can connect only two systems together, a given system may have many Data Access Ports ([[#Major_System|major systems]] may have hundreds).

==Datapad==
(noun) The tool of a [[#Programmer|programmer]] (similar to a [[#User_Space|User Space]] PDA); used to record the programmer's collection of [[#Rewrite|rewrites]].

==Destroyer==
(noun) One of the six [[#Heritage|heritages]] of [[#Waker|waker]], a destroyer excels at inflicting violence upon other [[#Program|programs]].

==Discorporate==
(verb) To discorporate: to die, to kill. ''Past tense:'' Discorporated.

==Discorporation==
(noun) The state of a [[#Program|program]] that most closely corresponds to death.

==Discus==
(noun) A combination of personal shield, edged melee and thrown weapon, the discus is a broad, saucer-shaped device attached to a wielder's forearm and "thrown" from that mounting when attacking with it at range. The discus responds to the wielder's intent and can return to its mounting under its own power.

==Dreamer==
(noun) One of the three types of [[#Program|program]], a dreamer is a more advanced form of [[#Sleeper|sleeper]], possessed of limited [[#Artificial_Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] that allows it to learn from its enviornment and the results of its actions, but although it can expand its routines and parameters to a certain extent, it can still only grow within fairly narrow boundaries. Some dreamers are complex enough that they have some of the trappings of sentience, but none are actually self-aware. Every [[#Waker|waker]] was once a dreamer, and examples of dreamers are given in the descriptions of the various waker [[#Class|classes]].