| Subject | Italian | English |
| econ. | direct costing | proportional costing USA |
| econ. | direct costing | direct costing |
| econ. | direct costing | variable costing |
| econ. | direct costing | marginal costing |
| comp., MS | Direct Memory Access, accesso diretto alla memoria | direct memory access (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 | posta diretta, direct mail | direct mail (A mail message that is targeted toward specific users that meet the specific requirements of a marketing campaign) |
| comp., MS | WinSock Direct | 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) |