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Decay (album)
Decay is Godflesh's tenth and penultimate studio album, released September 25, 2026 on Relapse Records; six songs, 41 minutes, from the same sessions as Purge, with softened vocals after Broadrick's hernia surgery.
Decay chain
A decay chain, also called a radioactive series, is the sequence of successive radioactive decays an unstable nucleus and its daughters undergo until a stable nucleus forms.
Decay heat removal
Decay heat removal is the reactor safety function that carries away heat from radioactive decay in nuclear fuel after shutdown, from power operation through refuelling.
Decca Navigator
The Decca Navigator System was a British hyperbolic radio-navigation system, the primary coastal positioning system for world shipping from the late 1940s until GPS displaced it in the 1990s.
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label founded 28 February 1929 by Edward Lewis, now a Universal Music Group label group (Decca Classics, Decca Broadway, Mercury KX). Known for ffrr recording innovation, the Decca tree microphone, and artists from Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald to Pavarotti and the Rolling Stones.
Deccan campaigns of Malik Kafur
The Deccan campaigns of Malik Kafur were expeditions led by general Malik Kafur for Sultan Alauddin Khalji of Delhi against four southern Indian kingdoms, roughly 1306 to 1311.
Deccan carpets
Deccan carpets are knotted-pile carpets produced in the Deccan plateau of south-central India, chiefly under the Deccan sultanates from roughly the sixteenth century onward, serving local courts and export markets.
Deccan Chargers
Deccan Chargers, Hyderabad's original IPL cricket franchise (2008–2012), owned by Deccan Chronicle Holdings; won the 2009 IPL title in South Africa under Adam Gilchrist, then was terminated by the BCCI in 2012 and replaced by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Deccan Chargers in 2009
Deccan Chargers' 2009 IPL season: the Hyderabad franchise, last in 2008 with two wins, won the title under Adam Gilchrist in South Africa, beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 6 runs in the Johannesburg final on May 24, 2009.
Deccan famine of 1630-1632
The Deccan famine of 1630-1632 (दुर्गादेवी दुर्भिक्ष) was a drought and famine in Mughal India, deepened by war between the Mughals and the Deccan sultanates.
Deccan famine of 1630–32
The Deccan famine of 1630–32 (दक्खन का अकाल) was a drought and famine in Gujarat, Malwa, and the Deccan that killed several million people, worsened by Mughal warfare.
Deccan painting
Deccan painting, also called Deccani painting, is a form of Indian miniature painting made for the Deccan sultanates, chiefly from the late 16th to the mid-17th century.
Deccan Plateau
The Deccan Plateau is the large volcanic tableland of peninsular India, also called the Deccan Traps region, from Sanskrit Dakshina (the South). Flood basalts cover nearly half the peninsula; eastward-sloping terrain drains via the Godavari into black regur cotton soils.
Deccan Riots
The Deccan Riots (दख्खन दंगे) were peasant uprisings against Marwari and Gujar moneylenders in the Bombay Deccan, beginning on 12 May 1875 at Supa in Poona district.
Deccan sultanates
The Deccan sultanates (Ahmadnagar, Bijapur, Golkonda, Berar, Bidar) were five Muslim-ruled states formed from the Bahmani Sultanate's 1480s breakup, defeated Vijayanagara at Talikota in 1565, and fell to Mughal annexation by 1686-87.
Deccan Traps
The Deccan Traps is a large flood basalt province in west-central India, mainly in Maharashtra, formed by massive eruptions about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary.
Deccani Urdu poetry
Deccani Urdu poetry (دکنی شاعری), also called Dakhni poetry, is the earliest sustained literary tradition in Urdu, written in the Deccan of southern India from the 1400s to the 1700s.
Deccani–Afaqi conflict
The Deccani–Afaqi conflict was the rivalry between local Deccani nobles and immigrant Afaqi nobles that ran through the Bahmani Sultanate and weakened its successor states before Mughal annexation.
Decebalus
Decebalus was the last king of Dacia, ruling from about 87 to 106 CE, who fought Domitian and Trajan and died by suicide when Rome captured his capital.
Deceleration
Deceleration is a reduction in speed: acceleration directed opposite to an object's velocity. The word was coined in 1894 in railroading, and the verb decelerate followed in 1899.
Deceleration parameter
The deceleration parameter is a dimensionless number, written q, that measures whether the universe's expansion slows or speeds up; its present negative value confirms accelerating expansion.
Decellularization
Decellularization is a tissue engineering method that removes cells and their genetic material from tissue or intact organs, leaving the extracellular matrix as a scaffold that can be reseeded with cells.
Decellularized extracellular matrix
Decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) is the network of structural and bioactive proteins left after cells are removed from tissue, used as a scaffold in tissue engineering.
Decellularized whole-organ scaffolds
Decellularized whole-organ scaffolds are extracellular matrix frameworks produced by stripping all cells from a donor organ, typically by perfusion, preserving its architecture so it can be reseeded to engineer replacement organs.
December
December is the twelfth and final month of the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days. Its name comes from Latin decem, "ten", from the early Roman year.
December 1
December 1 is the 335th day of the Gregorian year (336th in leap years). It is World AIDS Day, founded in 1988, and the anniversary of Rosa Parks's 1955 arrest, Ford's 1913 moving assembly line, and the 1959 Antarctica Treaty.
December 10
December 10, the 344th day of the Gregorian year (345th in leap years). Also called Nobeldagen and Human Rights Day: Alfred Nobel died on this date in 1896, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, and the UDHR was adopted in 1948.
December 10 (group)
December 10 (D10), a seven-member British-Irish boy band formed by Simon Cowell on Netflix's Simon Cowell: The Next Act (premiered 10 December 2025); members Cruz, Danny, Hendrik, John, Josh, Nicolas, Seán; debut EP On Your Side hit UK No. 5.
December 11
December 11, the 345th day of the year, is International Mountain Day and UNICEF's founding anniversary (1946); it marks the 1941 German and Italian declarations of war on the U.S., Edward VIII's 1936 abdication, and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
December 12
December 12, the 346th day of the year, hosts Jamhuri Day (Kenya's 1963 independence), the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, International Day of Neutrality, and marks Pennsylvania's 1787 Constitution ratification, Marconi's 1901 transatlantic radio signal, and the 2015 Paris climate accord.