All articles starting with D

Detached objects

Detached objects are trans-Neptunian objects whose perihelia lie far beyond Neptune's orbit, keeping them detached from the planet's gravity; Sedna and 2012 VP113 are known examples.

Detachment (film)

Detachment (2011) is a Tony Kaye drama starring Adrien Brody as substitute teacher Henry Barthes at a failing US public school; premiered at Tribeca, released 2012, Metascore 52, RT 59%.

Detachment A (39th Special Forces Detachment) was a classified U.S. Army Special Forces unit in West Berlin, 1956–1984, conducting stay-behind unconventional warfare, sabotage, and counterterrorism, including Tehran reconnaissance in the 1980 Iran hostage rescue.

Detachment fault

A detachment fault is a large, gently dipping normal fault along which the upper crust slides away during extension, exposing deeper rocks in metamorphic core complexes.

Detail drawing

A detail drawing is a large-scale architectural drawing showing a small part of a building, such as a wall junction, with exact construction, dimensions, and materials.

Detailed balance

Detailed balance is a condition on stochastic systems, such as Markov chains, requiring that probability flow between each pair of states equals the reverse flow, implying reversibility.

Detailed City Experience

Detailed City Experience is an Apple Maps feature introduced with iOS 15 in September 2021, rendering selected cities in detailed 3D with elevation, trees, and custom landmarks.

Detasseling

Detasseling removes the tassel from female maize plants in hybrid seed corn fields to prevent self-pollination; done by hand or machine, with male sterility systems like CMS and Ms44-SPT as alternatives, costing about 14% seed yield when manual.

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Detection Algorithms

Detection algorithms for object detection locate and classify objects in images via bounding boxes. Families: two-stage R-CNN series, one-stage YOLO/SSD, transformer-based DETR/RT-DETR; measured by mAP and FPS.

Detection and attribution

Detection and attribution (D&A) is the climate science framework for showing whether observed climate change exceeds natural variability and how much is caused by greenhouse gases.

Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project

The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP) is a CMIP6 climate model project separating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar activity, and volcanism.

Detection and surveillance of chytridiomycosis

Detection and surveillance of chytridiomycosis are the laboratory methods and monitoring networks used to find the amphibian chytrid fungi Bd and Bsal, chiefly swab qPCR and environmental DNA assays.

Detection capability

Detection capability is the smallest quantity or concentration of a substance a measurement method can statistically distinguish from a reference state, defined in ISO 11843.

Detection Club

The Detection Club is a British society of crime writers founded in 1930 by Anthony Berkeley, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, and others, known for its oath on Eric the Skull, its fair-play rules, and round-robin novels such as The Floating Admiral.

Detection dog

Detection dog: a dog trained to scent-locate explosives, narcotics, human remains, agricultural pests, wildlife samples, or disease markers and alert a handler. Key facts: up to 250 million olfactory receptors, part-per-trillion sensitivity, double-blind testing reduces handler bias.

Detection limit

The detection limit, also called the limit of detection (LOD), is the smallest amount or concentration of a substance an analytical procedure can reliably distinguish from a blank sample.

Detection of stellar-mass black holes

Stellar-mass black holes are detected through companion-star orbits, X-rays from accreting binaries, Gaia astrometry, and microlensing; only a few tens of the Milky Way's predicted 100 million are confirmed.

Detection theory

Detection theory, most often called signal detection theory, is a framework for analyzing decisions between two states of the world under uncertainty, separating discriminability from response bias.

Detective

Detective: an investigator, police or private, who solves crimes rather than patrolling. Covers Bow Street Runners, Scotland Yard's 1842 Detective Branch, the 1878 CID, Pinkerton and Kate Warne, and clearance-rate research.

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! is a 2015 Hindi period mystery thriller by Dibakar Banerjee, starring Sushant Singh Rajput as Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's detective in 1943 wartime Calcutta; released 3 April 2015 by Yash Raj Films, it earned ₹27.05 crore in India.

Detective Chinatown (唐人街探案)

Detective Chinatown (唐人街探案) is a 2015 Chinese comedy-mystery film directed and co-written by Chen Sicheng, starring Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran as amateur detectives solving a murder in Bangkok's Chinatown.

Detective Chinatown (唐人街探案) (2020 TV series)

Detective Chinatown (唐人街探案网剧) is a 2020 iQIYI Chinese suspense web series, a 12-episode spin-off of the Detective Chinatown films with three four-episode cases starring Qiu Ze as detective Lin Mo.

Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐人街·探案1900)

Detective Chinatown 1900 (唐探1900) is a 2025 Chinese comedy-mystery prequel, the fourth Detective Chinatown film, directed by Chen Sicheng and Dai Mo. Set in 1900 San Francisco Chinatown, it stars Liu Haoran and Wang Baoqiang and grossed over 3.4 billion yuan.

Detective Chinatown 2 (Web Series) (唐人街探案2 (网络剧))

Detective Chinatown 2 (唐人街探案2 (网络剧), also Tang Ren Jie Tan An 2) is a 2024 iQIYI Chinese suspense web series, second season of the Detective Chinatown web spin-off: 16 episodes, four units, detectives Lin Mo and KIKO, Chen Sicheng as chief screenwriter.

Detective Chinatown 2 (唐人街探案2)

Detective Chinatown 2 (唐人街探案2), also released in Japan as 唐人街探偵 NEW YORK MISSION, is Chen Sicheng's 2018 Chinese comedy-mystery sequel set in New York, where Tang Ren and Qin Feng join a World Detective Contest; it earned about 3.4 billion yuan as the 2018 Spring Festival box-office champion and introduced the Crimaster detective ranking.

Detective Chinatown 3 (唐人街探案3)

Detective Chinatown 3 (唐人街探案3) is a 2021 Chinese comedy-mystery film by Chen Sicheng, third in the series, set in Tokyo with Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran; it set Spring Festival box office records (3.562 billion yuan) despite a series-low 5.9 Douban score.

Detective Comics

Detective Comics (DC) is DC Comics' longest-running comic book, a detective anthology launched March 1937 by Wheeler-Nicholson that introduced Batman in #27 (1939) and Robin in #38; the company's name derives from its initials, with legacy numbering resumed after the 2011 New 52 reset.

Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (名探偵コナン黒鉄の魚影)

Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (名探偵コナン黒鉄の魚影) is the 26th Detective Conan theatrical anime film, released April 14, 2023 by Toho. Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa, it pits Conan and Haibara against the Black Organization at the Pacific Buoy facility and set a series opening record.

Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway

Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway (名探偵コナンハイウェイの堕天使) is the 29th Detective Conan theatrical anime film, directed by Takahiro Hasui, released in Japan April 10, 2026 by Toho; it follows Conan and officer Chihaya Hagiwara chasing the black bike Lucifer, grossing ¥13.7 billion.