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Deep Wound
Deep Wound was a 1982-1984 western Massachusetts hardcore punk band with J Mascis (drums), Lou Barlow, Scott Helland, and Charlie Nakajima; its fast 1983 Radiobeat 7-inch prefigured grindcore before Dinosaur Jr.
Deep-fried butter
Deep-fried butter is a state fair food of frozen butter balls or sticks coated in dough and deep fried, created by Abel Gonzales Jr. at the 2009 State Fair of Texas, where it won Most Creative at the Big Tex Choice Awards.
Deep-fried Mars bar
Deep-fried Mars bar: a battered, deep-fried Mars chocolate bar from Scottish chip shops, credited to the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven (1992), a tourist symbol and stereotype of the Scottish diet.
Deep-level defects
Deep-level defects are crystal imperfections in semiconductors whose electronic states sit deep in the band gap, trapping carriers and limiting lifetime in devices like LEDs and HEMTs.
Deep-level transient spectroscopy
Deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) is a semiconductor characterization technique, introduced by D.V. Lang in 1974, that measures the energy levels and concentrations of deep-level defects from capacitance transients.
Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) is a NOAA tsunami monitoring system pairing seafloor pressure recorders with moored surface buoys, expanded to 39 US stations in 2008.
Deep-sea cnidarian distributions
Deep-sea cnidarian distributions describe where corals, hydroids, anemones, and siphonophores live in the bathyal, abyssal, and hadal zones of the ocean floor and deep water column.
Deep-sea gigantism
Deep-sea gigantism (abyssal gigantism): deep-ocean animals growing larger than shallow-water relatives, seen in giant isopods, giant and colossal squids, and supergiant amphipods; attributed to cold, scarce food, low predation, and oxygen, though not universal across taxa.
Deep-sea scaphopod faunas
Deep-sea scaphopod faunas are the tusk shell assemblages of soft seabeds below roughly 500 m, found worldwide and recorded as deep as 7,000 m in the Sunda Trench.
Deep-space optical communications
Deep-space optical communications is the use of near-infrared laser links, instead of radio, to send data between deep-space spacecraft and Earth, promising 10 to 100 times the data return for similar mass and power.
Deep-submergence vehicle
A deep-submergence vehicle (DSV), also called a human-occupied vehicle when crewed, is a submersible launched from a support ship to work at great ocean depths.
Deep-water coral
Deep-water coral (deep-sea, cold-water coral): azooxanthellate corals below about 50 m lacking symbiotic algae, feeding on particles in currents; over 3,000 species, reef builders like Lophelia pertusa, threatened mainly by bottom trawling.
DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey was a spectroscopic survey of roughly 60,000 galaxies at redshift z ~ 1, observed with the DEIMOS spectrograph on the Keck II telescope.
Deepa Malik (दीपा मलिक)
Deepa Malik (दीपा मलिक), born 1970, Indian para athlete; first Indian woman to win a Paralympic medal (silver, shot put F53, Rio 2016); Khel Ratna, Padma Shri, Arjuna awardee; PCI president.
Deepa Mehta (दीपा मेहता)
Deepa Mehta (दीपा मेहता), born 1950 in Amritsar, is an Indian-born Canadian director known for the Elements Trilogy (Fire, Earth, Water), Oscar-nominated Water, Midnight's Children, and Funny Boy.
Deepa Sahi
Deepa Sahi (born 1962, Dehradun) is an Indian actress, producer, and director, known for Maya Memsaab (1993), Tamas, and producing Mangal Pandey: The Rising and Manjhi; wife of director Ketan Mehta.
Deepa Sannidhi (ದೀಪಾ ಸನ್ನಿಧಿ)
Deepa Sannidhi (ದೀಪಾ ಸನ್ನಿಧಿ), born Rahasya in 1990 in Chikkamagaluru, is an Indian actress known for Kannada films Saarathi, Paramathma, Sakkare, and Tamil Enakkul Oruvan; she stopped acting after 2017's Chakravarthy.
Deepak Anchala
Deepak Anchala is a software entrepreneur and author of Idea to Exit, best known as co-founder and CEO of Slintel, a buyer-intent data company acquired by 6sense in 2021.
Deepak Bagla
Deepak Bagla is an Indian investment promotion executive who served as Managing Director and CEO of Invest India, the national investment agency, from 2015 to 2023.
Deepak Baij
Deepak Baij, born 1981, is an Indian Congress politician who represented Bastar in the Lok Sabha from 2019 to 2024 and now leads the party's Chhattisgarh unit.
Deepak Bastia
Deepak Bastia is a molecular biologist who studies how DNA replication starts and stops, holding the Donnelly Endowed Chair at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Deepak Birua
Deepak Birua is an Indian politician and JMM member, serving as the MLA from Chaibasa since 2009. He holds key government portfolios in Transport and Revenue and Land Reforms.
Deepak Chahar (दीपक चाहर)
Deepak Chahar (दीपक चाहर), born 1992 in Agra, is an Indian right-arm swing bowler and IPL powerplay specialist for Mumbai Indians, holder of the best T20I figures by a full ICC member (6/7 vs Bangladesh, 2019).
Deepak Chopra (दीपक चोपड़ा)
Deepak Chopra (दीपक चोपड़ा), Indian-born American physician and author of Quantum Healing (1989), coined "quantum healing," founded the Chopra Center and Foundation, wrote 90+ books, and is widely criticized for pseudoscientific use of quantum physics.
Deepak Dhavalikar
Deepak Dhavalikar, also referred to as Pandurang Dhavalikar, is an Indian politician who leads the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party in Goa and served as a Goa cabinet minister until 2016.
Deepak Dobriyal (दीपक डोबरियाल)
Deepak Dobriyal (दीपक डोबरियाल), born 1975 in Pauri Garhwal, is an Indian film and theatre actor known for Pappi in Tanu Weds Manu, Shyam Prakash in Hindi Medium, and Inspector Ram Charan Pandey in Sector 36.
Deepak Gaur
Deepak Gaur is an Indian venture capital investor based in Gurgaon who has spent his career at Elevation Capital, formerly SAIF Partners India, since 2006.
Deepak Hooda
Deepak Hooda (born 1995, Rohtak), Indian batting all-rounder and off-spinner; fourth Indian with a T20I century (104 off 57 vs Ireland, 2022); IPL teams Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Lucknow Super Giants, Chennai Super Kings.
Deepak Pandya
Deepak N. Pandya (1932-2020), Indian-American neuroanatomist and physician at Bedford VA and Boston University, mapped primate cortical connections, defined core-belt auditory cortex, and was father of astronaut Sunita Williams.
Deepak Parashar (दीपक पराशर)
Deepak Parashar (दीपक पराशर), born 1952 in Pune, is an Indian actor and the first Mr India (1976), known for Insaaf Ka Tarazu (1980), Nikaah (1982), and Sharaabi (1984), later a TV actor and CINTAA treasurer; distinct from a same-named assistant director.