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Delain

Delain is a Dutch symphonic metal band formed in 2002 in Zwolle by ex-Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt; female-fronted, seven studio albums including Dark Waters (2023), since 2026 a guest-vocalist collective.

Delainey Hayles

Delainey Hayles (born 1999) is a British actress who plays Claudia in seasons 2 and 3 of AMC's Interview with the Vampire, replacing Bailey Bass, and appears in The Vampire Lestat (2026) and Flanagan's Carrie.

Delair

Delair (Delair SAS) is a French developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems, founded in Toulouse in 2011 and known for long-endurance fixed-wing mapping drones.

Delaite Island

Delaite Island (Delaire Ile, Isla Delaite) is an island in Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, west of Nansen Island at 64°34'S 62°12'W, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for sponsor Julien Delaite.

Delamanid

Delamanid (Deltyba), Otsuka's nitroimidazole antibiotic for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; EMA-authorized 2014, WHO Group C medicine, QT-prolonging, now in the 6-month BDLLfxC regimen.

Delamination

Delamination is the failure of the bond between a material's layers, causing them to separate along a plane parallel to its surface in concrete, composites, and thin films.

Delamination tectonics

Delamination tectonics is the geodynamic process in which dense mantle lithosphere peels away from the overlying crust and sinks into the asthenosphere, introduced by Peter Bird in 1979.

Delamination wear

Delamination wear is a wear mechanism in which thin, flake-like particles detach from sliding metal surfaces through cracks forming below the surface, proposed by Nam P. Suh at MIT in 1973.

Delan Devakumar

Delan Devakumar is a British public health physician and Professor of Global Child Health at UCL, known for work on racism, migration, and child health.

Delancey Street

Delancey Street is a major east-west commercial thoroughfare on Manhattan's Lower East Side, running from the Bowery to the Williamsburg Bridge approach and carrying traffic between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.

DeLand, Florida

DeLand is a city in Volusia County, Florida, and its county seat. Founded in 1876 by Henry Addison DeLand, it is home to Stetson University, Florida's first private university.

Delandistrogene moxeparvovec

Delandistrogene moxeparvovec (Elevidys, delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl) is Sarepta's one-time AAVrh74 gene therapy delivering micro-dystrophin for Duchenne muscular dystrophy; first US-approved DMD gene therapy (2023), later given a boxed liver-failure warning and ambulatory-only indication (2025).

Delaney & Bonnie

Delaney & Bonnie: American husband-and-wife soul-rock duo of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, blending blue-eyed soul, blues, country, and gospel; best known for On Tour with Eric Clapton (1970) and the song Superstar.

Delaney Rowe

Delaney Rowe (born 1995) is an American comedian, actress, and writer known on TikTok as @delaneysayshello for satirizing movie tropes like the insufferable indie female lead; USC theater graduate, UTA-signed, star of You Deserve Each Other and Off-Broadway's Machine Learning.

Delanie Walker

Delanie Walker (Hubert Delanie Walker, born 1984) is a former NFL tight end, 2006 sixth-round pick by the 49ers, three-time Pro Bowler with the Titans (2013-19), 504 catches, 5,888 yards, retired 2022.

Delano family

Delano family, American lineage from Philippe de Lannoy (de la Noye), a 1621 Fortune Pilgrim; rose via New Bedford whaling and the Canton China trade; Sara Delano was FDR's mother.

Delano Smith

Delano Smith is an American house and techno DJ and producer from Detroit, one of the city's first house DJs and a defining figure of the Detroit Beatdown sound.

Delapril

Delapril (地拉普利) is a lipophilic nonsulfhydryl ACE inhibitor prodrug launched by Takeda in 1989 for hypertension, converted to two active diacid metabolites and marketed in fixed combinations with manidipine and indapamide.

Delaunay triangulation

The Delaunay triangulation, also known as the Delone triangulation or Delaunay tessellation, is a triangulation of a point set whose triangle circumcircles contain no other points.

DeLaval (company)

DeLaval is a Swedish company, headquartered in Tumba near Stockholm, that develops milking equipment, feeding, and herd-management technology for dairy farms; it dates to 1883.

DeLaval VMS

DeLaval VMS (Voluntary Milking System) is a robotic milking system by Sweden's DeLaval of Tumba, introduced in 1998 and among the first commercial automatic milking systems.

Delavirdine

Delavirdine (DLV, Rescriptor) is a bisheteroarylpiperazine NNRTI for HIV-1, approved by the FDA on April 4, 1997 as the second NNRTI after nevirapine; dosed 400 mg three times daily, limited by rash and rapid K103N resistance, now discontinued.

Delaware

Delaware, "The First State," is a small Mid-Atlantic U.S. state that first ratified the U.S. Constitution on December 7, 1787; capital Dover; home of the Court of Chancery and over 2 million incorporated entities.

Delaware and Hudson Canal

The Delaware and Hudson Canal was a 108-mile privately built canal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania, to Rondout on the Hudson River, carrying anthracite coal to market from 1828 to 1898.

Delaware and Raritan Canal

The Delaware and Raritan Canal is a historic 44-mile canal in central New Jersey, opened in 1834 to link Bordentown on the Delaware River to New Brunswick.

Delaware Aqueduct

The Delaware Aqueduct is an 85-mile water tunnel built between 1937 and 1944 that carries drinking water from Rondout Reservoir to New York City, supplying about half the city's needs.

Delaware Bay

Delaware Bay, the estuary of the Delaware River between Delaware and New Jersey, a large coastal plain estuary with salinity from 0.2 to 31.8 ppt, managed salt front, and the world's densest horseshoe crab spawning grounds.

Delaware Blue Coats

Delaware Blue Coats, NBA G League affiliate of the Philadelphia 76ers based in Wilmington, Delaware, at the Chase Fieldhouse (2,500 seats). Formerly Utah Flash and Delaware 87ers; 2023 G League champions.

Delaware County, Ohio, United States

Delaware County, Ohio, a central Ohio county founded in 1808 from Franklin County, seat at Delaware city; 242,032 residents (2025 est.), Ohio's fastest-growing and highest-income county, north of Columbus.

Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Delaware County, Pennsylvania, also called Delco, is a southeastern Pennsylvania county created September 6, 1789 from Chester County, with county seat at Media, 49 municipalities, 576,830 residents in 2020, and a home rule charter government.