DIL1
abbreviation Electronics
Dual in-line (package). See DIP.
DIL2
noun informal
A person’s daughter-in-law: my son and DIL are both primary school teachers...
- I have a boy and three girls and my DIL will be treated exactly the same as my daughters.
- I really respect and like my DIL and think she is excellent mother.
- Appreciate the fact that your DIL has parents/family of her own and will most likely be a bit closer to them, especially her mum.
Origin
1960s: abbreviation.
- continuously
- continuousness
- continuous spectrum
- continuous stationery
- continuous wave
- continuum
- continuum hypothesis
- contort
- contortion
- contortionist
- contour
- contour feather
- contour line
- contour map
- contour ploughing
- Contra
- contra-
- contraband
- contrabandist
- contraband of war
- contrabass
- contrabassoon
- contraception
- contraceptive
- contract