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Demophilus
Demophilus (Δημόφιλος), who died in 385 or 386, was bishop of Berea and Homoian archbishop of Constantinople from 370 until his expulsion by Theodosius I in 380.
Demoralization
Demoralization is a psychological state of helplessness, hopelessness, a sense of failure, and inability to cope, described most often in medically ill and psychiatric patients and distinct from depression.
Demorris Hunter
Demorris Hunter (Demorris Andy Hunter, born 1966) is an American serial killer convicted of murders in California and Florida; sentenced to death in 2026 for the 2002 strangulation murder of Theresa Ann Green in Orlando.
Demosaicing
Demosaicing is the image-processing step that reconstructs a full-color RGB image from a camera sensor whose pixels each record only one color, usually in the Bayer pattern.
Demoscene
Demoscene (demo scene): international computer art subculture producing demos, non-interactive real-time audiovisual programs. Born in 1980s crack-intro piracy culture; demoparties, 4k/64k size comps, UNESCO heritage recognition.
Demosponge
Demospongiae (demosponges, Sollas 1885) is the largest sponge class, about 83% of species, with siliceous monaxon/tetraxon spicules and/or spongin, in marine, brackish, and freshwater habitats, Cambrian fossils and Cryogenian sterol biomarkers.
Demosthenes (Δημοσθένης)
Demosthenes (Δημοσθένης), 384–322 BC, Athenian statesman and greatest Attic orator; anti-Macedonian Philippics, Olynthiacs, and On the Crown; won the 330 Crown trial against Aeschines.
Demotic (Egyptian)
Demotic (demotikos; Egyptian sX n Sat), the popular cursive script and language stage of Egyptian derived from hieratic, used from the 7th century BC to AD 452, appears on the Rosetta Stone and was deciphered via Coptic by Young and Champollion.
Demotic Chronicle
The Demotic Chronicle (Chronique démotique) is an Egyptian prophetic text in Demotic script that foretells the bad ends of Late Period kings and condemns Persian rule, surviving on a papyrus in Paris.
Demotic Egyptian language
Demotic Egyptian: a cursive script and language stage of ancient Egyptian, from Greek demotikos, used from the seventh century BCE to the Philae graffito of 452 CE; Rosetta Stone middle text, ancestor of Coptic's borrowed signs.
Demplatin pegraglumer
Demplatin pegraglumer (NC-6004, Nanoplatin) is a ~30 nm polymeric micelle formulation of cisplatin in PEG-poly(glutamic acid), developed by Kataoka's group and NanoCarrier, tested with gemcitabine in phase III pancreatic cancer trials.
Dempo
Dempo (Gunung Dempo), active stratovolcano, 3,142 m, SE Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunda arc; frequent small phreatic eruptions from a crater lake since 1817; last eruption 2025; distinct rhyolitic magma.
Dempsey and Firpo
Dempsey and Firpo is a 1924 oil painting by American artist George Bellows showing Luis Ángel Firpo knocking heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey out of the ring at New York's Polo Grounds.
Dempsey and Makepeace
Dempsey and Makepeace: British ITV crime drama (1985–1986) by London Weekend Television, created by Ranald Graham, starring Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber as mismatched New York and London detectives who later married.
Dempsey Bryk
Dempsey Bryk (born 1996, New York City) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director, son of Greg Bryk and brother of Billy Bryk. He played Prince Airk Tanthalos in Disney+'s Willow and directed Crash Land, his SXSW 2026 feature debut.
Dempster Highway
The Dempster Highway is a 740 km gravel road from Dawson City, Yukon, to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, and the only public road in Canada crossing the Arctic Circle.
Dempster–Shafer theory
Dempster–Shafer theory is a mathematical framework for reasoning under uncertainty that assigns degrees of belief to sets of propositions and combines evidence from independent sources.
Demultiplexing (sequencing)
Demultiplexing in sequencing is the computational step that separates pooled high-throughput sequencing reads into per-sample FASTQ files by matching each read's index or barcode sequence.
Demurrage
Demurrage is a charge payable when a ship or container is held longer than the allowed time, as a daily payment to a shipowner or a per-day terminal fee.
Demvamvit Corona
Demvamvit Corona is a 370-km-wide corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 65.5S, 38E, in quadrangle V-56, named for a Gurage women's goddess of Ethiopia and IAU-approved in 1997.
Demyelinating disease
A demyelinating disease is a disorder in which the myelin sheath around nerve fibers is damaged, slowing or blocking nerve signals; multiple sclerosis is the most common form.
Den (comics)
Den is Richard Corben's fantasy comic character, David Ellis Norman transformed into a muscular adventurer in Neverwhere. Serialized in Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal 1977-78, adapted in the Heavy Metal film, restored by Dark Horse in five volumes 2023-2025.
DEN 0255 4700
DEN 0255-4700 (DENIS 0255-4700, DENIS-P J0255.0-4700) is a nearby isolated late-L brown dwarf about 16.2 light years away, near the L-T transition, with temperature ≤1400 K, mass 60-70 Jupiter masses, and rapid 40 km/s rotation.
DEN 1048 3956
DEN 1048-3956 is a faint M9 flare star about 13.2 light-years from the Sun in Antlia, one of the closest such objects, known for strong radio flares.
Den første Sne
"Den første Sne" (Danish for "The First Snow") titles several Nordic poems and songs, the best known a playful 1872 poem by the Danish writer Fr. Winkel Horn.
Den of Thieves (film)
Den of Thieves is a 2018 American heist crime film, Christian Gudegast's directorial debut, starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and 50 Cent, about LA deputies pursuing a crew robbing the Federal Reserve; released by STX, grossing $44.9M, with a 2025 sequel Pantera.
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025) is a Lionsgate action-heist sequel directed by Christian Gudegast, starring Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. hunting the Pink Panther mafia in a European diamond heist inspired by the 2003 Antwerp robbery; it opened No. 1 with $15.5 million.
Den Poezii
Den Poezii (День поэзии, "The Day of Poetry") is a Russian-language annual poetry almanac first published in Moscow in 1956, the principal showcase of Russian poetry in the Soviet era.
Den seal impressions
The Den seal impressions are clay and mud sealings bearing the Horus name of Den, a First Dynasty king of Egypt, found in his Abydos tomb and at Saqqara.
Den stora gåtan
Den stora gåtan (The Great Enigma) is a 2004 poetry collection by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, published by Albert Bonniers förlag, his last major new collection.