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dash

(1) See Amazon Dash and dashboard.

(2) (Dash) (Digital cASH) A privacy-capable cryptocurrency that was derived from the Bitcoin protocol. Run by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and launched in 2014 as Xcoin, Dash is faster than Bitcoin and takes less than two seconds for a Dash transaction to complete. Transaction fees are minuscule compared to Bitcoin.

Dash was briefly branded as Darkcoin because of its earlier use on the Dark Web. However, users have to invoke Dash's PrivateSend function to be entirely anonymous, and only a small fraction of Dash users employ this feature.

The Dash platform is a mix of blockchain, cloud storage and Web protocols. Providing human readable names and its own wallet (DashPay), merchants around the world increasingly accept Dash as payment. See DAO, cryptocurrency and privacy coin.
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dash

A flight made at a very high, or near maximum permissible, speed without taking into consideration high fuel consumption. A dash may be made in enemy territory at very low heights, ignoring high fuel consumption temporarily.
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Dash

 

a punctuation mark in the form of a straight horizontal line (—). In the European writing systems, it has a space at either side.

In Russian punctuation, the dash indicates a pause between words or parts of a sentence. It is also used to emphasize intonations in written dialogue that are caused by the emotionality of utterances, and is used between a subject and predicate to replace a copula. In addition, the dash separates direct speech and introductory words from the rest of the sentence and separates coordinating conjunctions to emphasize contrast. The dash must be distinguished from the hyphen.

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