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DWI

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A designation prefix for undiscovered chemical elements lying two periods under a known element in the periodic table. (For example, rhenium was called dwi-manganese before its discovery in 1925.)

Other meanings

2. noun

Initialism of driving while impaired.

3. noun

Initialism of driving while intoxicated.

4. noun

Initialism of diffusion-weighted imaging.

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