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Dead-weight tester
A dead-weight tester, also called a piston gauge or pressure balance, is a primary pressure standard that generates known pressure by balancing calibrated masses on a piston of known area.
Dead! (song)
Dead! is a pop punk song by My Chemical Romance from the 2006 album The Black Parade. It was produced by Rob Cavallo and is known for its death-obsessed concept.
DeadAir Records
deadAir Records (deadAir) is an American independent, multidisciplinary record label in Philadelphia, founded in 2021 by Quinn Dupree, Jesse Taconelli, and Billie Bugara; its first release was Jane Remover's Frailty, and its roster includes quannnic, kmoe, and kuru.
Deadbeat (album)
Deadbeat (Tame Impala album, 2025) is Kevin Parker's fifth Tame Impala album, released October 17, 2025 on Columbia; a 55:59 house- and disco-leaning dance record, distinct from the dub techno producer Deadbeat and the band Deadbeat Beat.
Deadbeat (TV series)
Deadbeat is a Hulu supernatural comedy (2014–2016) created by Cody Heller and Brett Konner, starring Tyler Labine as medium Kevin Pacalioglu, who helps New York ghosts with unfinished business; 3 seasons, 36 episodes, canceled in 2016.
Deadbeat escapement
The deadbeat escapement is a recoilless escapement for pendulum clocks, usually credited to English clockmaker George Graham around 1715, which became the standard for precision regulator clocks.
Deadbeat Tour
Deadbeat Tour: Tame Impala's world concert tour supporting the 2025 album Deadbeat, launched October 2025 at Barclays Center, with in-the-round arena production, Djo and Ninajirachi as openers, and dates extended into 2027.
Deadbeats
Deadbeats is an independent record label and event brand founded in 2016 by Zeds Dead, based in Toronto and known for the We Are Deadbeats compilations.
Deadbolt
A deadbolt is a door lock bolt rotated by key or thumb-turn, rather than held by a spring latch, and the standard security lock for exterior doors.
Deadenylation
Deadenylation is the enzymatic shortening of the poly(A) tail of eukaryotic messenger RNAs, the first and rate-limiting step in mRNA decay, carried out mainly by the PAN2-PAN3 and CCR4-NOT complexes.
Deadfall (2012 film)
Deadfall (2012) is an American snowbound crime thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, starring Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, and Charlie Hunnam; released by Magnolia Pictures December 7, 2012, 94 minutes, R-rated, $64.4K US gross, 34% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Deadfreight
Deadfreight, also written dead freight, is the freight payable by a charterer who supplies less cargo than the voyage charterparty stipulates, compensating the shipowner for reserved space left unfilled.
Deadgirl
Deadgirl is a 2008 American indie horror film directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel, written by Trent Haaga, about teens who find an undead woman in an abandoned asylum; premiered at TIFF 2008, released by Dark Sky Films.
Deadhaus Sonata
Deadhaus Sonata is a gothic-horror co-op action role-playing game by Denis Dyack's Apocalypse Studios in which players fight as the undead; it entered Steam Early Access in 2026.
Deadhead
Deadhead: a devoted fan of the Grateful Dead and its touring, taping, and trading subculture; also an older English word for a non-paying passenger or spectator, attested from 1841.
Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Catch is a Discovery Channel reality documentary created by Thom Beers, premiering April 12, 2005, following Bering Sea crab fishermen; 22 seasons, Mike Rowe narrator, 65 Emmy nominations and 16 wins.
Deadliest Warrior
Deadliest Warrior: Spike TV non-scripted series (2009-2011) by Morningstar Entertainment, pitting warriors like Viking vs. samurai in instrument-tested, computer-simulated duels over three seasons.
Deadlift
Deadlift: barbell lift from the floor to standing, one of powerlifting's three competition lifts with squat and bench press. IPF rules require locked knees, shoulders back, and the "Down" command; variants include Romanian and trap bar deadlifts.
Deadline (EP)
Deadline (DEADLINE) is the third mini album (EP) by Blackpink (블랙핑크), released by YG Entertainment on February 27, 2026, containing "Jump" and title track "Go", its first full-group release since Born Pink (2022).
Deadline World Tour
Deadline World Tour, BLACKPINK's 2025-2026 stadium world tour (BLACKPINK WORLD TOUR ), opened at Goyang on July 5, 2025, closed at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium, premiered JUMP, and preceded the DEADLINE EP.
Deadloch
Deadloch is an Australian black comedy crime series created by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan for Prime Video, parodying Nordic noir. Season 1 (2023, Tasmania) and Season 2 (2026, Northern Territory) star Kate Box and Madeleine Sami as mismatched detectives.
Deadlock (disambiguation)
Deadlock is a standstill in which no party can progress, used in negotiation and politics, for a hung jury in law, and for blocked computer processes.
Deadlock (video game)
Deadlock is Valve's free-to-play MOBA-shooter hybrid in early development, invite-only on Steam (app 1422450), formerly the sci-fi shooter Neon Prime, with 38 heroes, no draft, and a 262,145-player concurrent peak surpassing Team Fortress 2.
Deadlock avoidance
Deadlock avoidance is a control strategy that keeps multi-robot systems, such as warehouse robot fleets, out of circular waits where robots block each other indefinitely.
Deadlock detection
Deadlock detection is the runtime activity of determining that transactions have entered a deadlock, usually by finding a cycle in a wait-for graph of waiting transactions.
Deadly Class
Deadly Class is an Image Comics action-thriller comic by Rick Remender and Wes Craig (Clase Letal in Spanish), begun January 2014 and ending at issue 56 in October 2022. Set in 1987, it follows Marcus Lopez at King's Dominion, a school for assassins, and was adapted as a one-season Syfy series in 2019.
Deadly Class (TV series)
Deadly Class is a 2019 Syfy television series adapted from Rick Remender and Wes Craig's Image Comics comic, following teen Marcus at the Kings Dominion assassin academy in 1987 San Francisco; one season, canceled.
Deadly Friend
Deadly Friend (1986), Wes Craven's Warner Bros. sci-fi horror based on Diana Henstell's novel Friend, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin: teen genius Paul revives dead neighbor Samantha with robot BB's brain; studio reshoots added gore, box office $8.9M.
Deadly Guns
Deadly Guns is the stage name of Michael Augustus, a Dutch hardcore DJ and producer from Beek who pioneered the uptempo style Thrashcore and runs Black Reaper Records.
Deadly Illusions
Deadly Illusions is a 2021 American psychological thriller written, directed, and produced by Anna Elizabeth James, starring Kristin Davis, Dermot Mulroney, and Greer Grammer; it hit #1 on Netflix worldwide for 8 days in March 2021.