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demon English-Italian

demonio m

demon1 British & World English

an evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell

demon2 British & World English

a police officer

demon3 British & World English

variant spelling of daemon.

demon English-French

démon m

démon French-English

demon, devil

demon English-German

Dämon

demon English-Spanish

demonio

demon in daemon (also demon)2 British & World English

a background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required

racing demon British & World English

a competitive version of the card game patience played simultaneously by a number of players

like a demon in demon1 British & World English

in a very forceful, fierce, or skilful way

Maxwell's demon British & World English

a hypothetical being imagined as controlling a hole in a partition dividing a gas-filled container into two parts, and allowing only fast-moving molecules to pass in one direction, and slow-moving molecules in the other. This would result in one side of the container becoming warmer and the other colder, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics

démon de midi French-English

middle-age lust

de mon/leur (propre) chef in chef French-English

on my/their own initiative