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Desi Arnaz Jr.
Desi Arnaz Jr. (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, born 1953), American actor and musician, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Dino, Desi & Billy member, Here's Lucy co-star, played his father in The Mambo Kings.
Dési Bouterse
Dési Bouterse (Desiré Delano Bouterse, 1945–2024), Surinamese sergeant-major who led the 1980 coup, ruled 1980–1987, was elected president 2010–2020, and was convicted of drug trafficking in the Netherlands and of the 1982 December murders in Suriname.
Desi Boyz
Desi Boyz is a 2011 Hindi comedy-drama, Rohit Dhawan's directorial debut, starring Akshay Kumar and John Abraham as London friends who become male escorts after losing jobs in the recession; released 25 November 2011 by Eros International.
Desi daru (देसी दारू)
Desi daru (देसी दारू), also deshi sharab or country liquor, is Indian locally distilled spirits from molasses, mahua, rice, gur, or palm sap, typically 30-33% ethanol versus 42.8% IMFL, legal under state excise laws but repeatedly linked to methanol-laced illicit hooch deaths.
Desi Hits!
Desi Hits! was a South Asian music and entertainment company founded in the mid-2000s by Anjula Acharia-Bath, which grew from a podcast into a Universal Music label venture.
Desi Johnson
Desi Johnson (born 2001, Miles, Queensland) is an Australian bobsleigh brakewoman; former sprinter and heptathlete who switched to bobsleigh in 2023, finished 21st in the two-woman event with Sarah Blizzard at Milano Cortina 2026, and has about 1.3 million Instagram followers.
DESI Legacy Surveys
The DESI Legacy Surveys are three public optical imaging surveys, combined with WISE infrared data, that produced the target catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.
Desi Lydic
Desi Lydic is an American actress and comedian from Louisville, Kentucky, a Daily Show correspondent and rotating host since 2015 who also played Valerie Marks on MTV's Awkward.
DESI survey
The DESI survey is a five-year spectroscopic redshift survey of tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, run by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at Kitt Peak.
Desi trap
Desi trap is a sub-scene of desi hip hop fusing American trap's 808 bass and hi-hats with Indian melodic textures and Hindi, Punjabi, and English lyrics.
Desiccant
A desiccant is a hygroscopic substance that removes water vapor from air, gases, or liquids, such as silica gel, activated alumina, molecular sieve, clay, and calcium chloride.
Desiccant cooling
Desiccant cooling is an air-conditioning method in which a hygroscopic desiccant removes water vapor from incoming air, which is then cooled by an evaporative cooler or air conditioner.
Desiccant dehumidifier
A desiccant dehumidifier removes moisture from air by adsorbing water vapor onto a desiccant, such as silica gel, instead of condensing it on a cold surface.
Desiccation
Desiccation is the removal of water from a solid, liquid, or gas; in the laboratory it covers drying samples to constant weight and keeping dried materials dry with desiccators and drying agents.
Desiccation of the Ghaggar-Hakra river system
The desiccation of the Ghaggar-Hakra river system, also called the Sarasvati river desiccation, is the drying of a once-large river in north-west India and Pakistan.
Desiccation tolerance in ferns
Desiccation tolerance in ferns is the ability of certain ferns and lycophytes to lose almost all cellular water, suspend metabolism, and resume normal function after rehydration.
Desiccation tolerance in land gastropods
Desiccation tolerance in land gastropods is the set of adaptations, including aestivation, epiphragms, and humidity-seeking behavior, that lets snails and slugs survive losing most of their body water.
Desiccator
A desiccator is a sealed laboratory container, typically of glass, that keeps samples dry with a drying agent such as silica gel, optionally under vacuum; dried samples cool in it before weighing.
Desidae
Desidae (Pocock, 1895) is a spider family of about 324 species in 63 genera, mostly Australian and New Zealand, including intertidal Desis, sheet-web Cambridgea, and house spider Badumna; it has both cribellate and ecribellate species.
Desiderata
Desiderata, Latin for "things desired," is a 1927 prose poem by Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana, famous for a false 1692 church attribution, Adlai Stevenson's deathbed copy, and Les Crane's 1971 Grammy-winning recording.
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II (1894–1973), Cuban physician, businessman, and youngest mayor of Santiago de Cuba (1923–1932), later congressman; father of entertainer Desi Arnaz; jailed after the 1933 Machado overthrow and died in Miami.
Desiderosmia
Desiderosmia is the excessive craving to smell specific odours without wanting to ingest them, associated with iron deficiency anaemia; term coined by Hansen et al. 2017, distinct from pica, resolves with iron replacement.
Desidustat
Desidustat (Oxemia) is an oral HIF prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor for anemia in chronic kidney disease, developed by Zydus Lifesciences and first approved in India in 2022.
Desierto
Desierto (2015) is a Mexico-France survival thriller directed by Jonás Cuarón, starring Gael García Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, about migrants hunted by a vigilante in the Sonoran desert; Toronto FIPRESCI winner and Mexico's 2016 Oscar entry.
DESIFEST 2023
DESIFEST 2023 was the 17th edition of DESIFEST, Canada's largest free South Asian music festival, held June 3, 2023 at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, headlined by Jonita Gandhi.
Design
Design is a plan or specification for constructing an object, system, or activity, or the realized result, spanning architecture, engineering, software, and the applied arts.
Design A-150 battleship
Design A-150, popularly the Super Yamato class, was a planned Imperial Japanese Navy battleship class succeeding the Yamato class, armed with six 51 cm guns.
Design and performance of immersed tube tunnels
Design of immersed tube tunnels must keep prefabricated elements buoyant during installation but permanently submerged, with watertight joints, seismic resilience, and accommodation of settlement in soft alluvial soils.
Design Automation Conference
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is the flagship annual conference of the electronic design automation field, sponsored by ACM and IEEE and founded in 1964.
Design brief
A design brief is the written document recording a client's goals, requirements, and constraints for a building project before design begins; problems in buildings often trace back to it.