| Subject | English | Icelandic |
| comp., MS | direct compensation | bein laun (The fixed and variable compensation awarded to an employee in exchange for services rendered) |
| math. | direct correlation | jákvæð fylgni |
| math. | direct correlation | beina fylgni |
| comp., MS | direct delivery | bein afhending (The delivery of goods directly from the vendor to the customer) |
| comp., MS | direct mail | markpóstur (A mail message that is targeted toward specific users that meet the specific requirements of a marketing campaign) |
| comp., MS | direct memory access | DMA (A technology that allows certain devices, such as hard disks and CD or DVD drives, to transfer information directly through the computer's memory without using the computer's processor. DMA improves the performance of the device and frees the computer's processor so it can perform other tasks) |
| comp., MS | direct method | bein aðferð (A method of deriving the net income provided by operating activities from the components of operating cash receipts and payments, instead of adjusting the net income for items) |
| math. | direct probability | bein líkindi |
| comp., MS | direct report | beinn undirmaður (An employee who in the organizational hierarchy is immediately below the manager in question and who can either be a manager or an individual contributor) |
| math. | direct sampling | beina sýnatöku |
| math. | direct standardisation | bein stöðlun |
| math. | direct standardization | bein stöðlun |
| comp., MS | Remote Direct Memory Access | beinn fjaraðgangur að minni (A networking feature that lets one computer directly place information into the memory of another computer) |
| comp., MS | WinSock direct A common programming interface to the lower-level system area network (SAN) implementations, developed by Microsoft. WSD sits underneath the standard WinSock application programming interface (API), but bypasses the kernel networking layers to talk directly to the SAN hardware. Because WSD sits underneath the existing WinSock API, IT departments can deploy applications in a SAN environment without modifying the applications | WSD (WinSock direct) |