All articles starting with D

Devi Mahatmya

The Devi Mahatmya, also called Durga Saptashati, is a 700-mantra Sanskrit scripture in praise of the Goddess, composed in the fifth or sixth century CE.

Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury

Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury (1899–1975) was an Indian sculptor and art educator known for the Triumph of Labour at Marina Beach, Chennai, and the Dandi March sculpture in New Delhi.

Devi Shetty (ದೇವಿ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ)

Devi Prasad Shetty (ದೇವಿ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ), born 1953, Indian cardiac surgeon, founder-chairman of Narayana Health; performed India's first neonatal heart surgery, treated Mother Teresa, pioneered Yeshasvini micro-insurance and sub-$2,000 open-heart surgery.

Devi Sri Prasad

Devi Sri Prasad (దేవి శ్రీ ప్రసాద్), aka DSP or Rockstar DSP, born 1979 in Vedurupaka, is a Telugu-Tamil film composer, singer, and lyricist; National Film Award winner for Pushpa's songs, distinct from director Devi Prasad and cardiologist Devi Prasad Shetty.

Sep 21, 2026

Devi Sridhar

Devi Sridhar is an American global public health researcher, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and founding director of its Global Health Governance Programme, widely known during COVID-19.

Deviance (sociology)

Deviance in sociology is the violation of social norms, folkways, mores, or law (Sumner); unlike crime, it depends on social reaction. Main theories: Durkheim's functionalism, Merton's strain, conflict theory, and Becker's labeling theory.

Sep 29, 2026

Deviance information criterion

The Deviance Information Criterion (DIC), developed by David J. Spiegelhalter and colleagues, is a Bayesian model selection criterion that compares candidate models using deviance plus a parameter penalty.

Deviant (comics)

Deviants (Homo descendus) is a fictional race of humanoids in Marvel Comics that features wildly varying physical characteristics across generations, first published by Jack Kirby in The Eternals (1976).

DeviantArt

DeviantArt (dA), founded August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, and Angelo Sotira, is an online art-sharing community that began as a skins site, was acquired by Wix in 2017 for $36 million, hosts over 650 million artworks, and launched the DreamUp AI generator in 2022.

Deviation (statistics)

In statistics, a deviation, also known as a statistical deviation, is the difference between an observation and a central value such as the mean or median, and deviations underlie measures like variance and standard deviation.

Deviatoric stress

Deviatoric stress is the part of a stress tensor left after the hydrostatic part is subtracted; it changes a material element's shape while hydrostatic stress changes volume.

Devibharathi

Devibharathi (தேவிபாரதி) is the pen name of Rajasekaran, a Tamil writer from western Tamil Nadu who won the 2023 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Neervazhi Padooum.

Device driver

A device driver, also called software driver or hardware driver, is software that lets an operating system communicate with a hardware device through a standard interface.

Device file

A device file, also called a device node or special file, is a filesystem entry representing a hardware device, so programs read and write it like an ordinary file.

Device Manager

Device Manager, opened with Devmgmt.msc, is a Microsoft Windows administrative tool listing installed hardware devices, with driver updates, uninstall options, and yellow exclamation icons for problem devices.

Oct 21, 2026

Device Removal

Device Removal (MeSH D020878, E04.199): surgical or percutaneous removal of implanted therapeutic or prosthetic devices, including cardiac lead extraction, orthopedic hardware removal, tracheostomy decannulation, and breast or dental implant removal.

Device tree

A devicetree is a data structure and accompanying language describing a computer's hardware, passed to the operating system at boot; it is common on embedded ARM and RISC-V systems.

Device-independent quantum cryptography

Device-independent quantum cryptography, or DI-QKD, is an approach to quantum key distribution whose security is certified by Bell inequality violations rather than trust in the devices themselves.

Device-independent quantum key distribution

Device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD, also DIQKD) is a form of quantum key distribution in which security is certified solely from Bell inequality violations, with no trust in the devices.

Device-independent quantum random number generation

Device-independent quantum random number generation (DIQRNG) produces random bits certified by a loophole-free Bell test, requiring no assumptions about the devices, which may even be built by an adversary.

Device-independent randomness expansion

Device-independent randomness expansion (DIRE) is a quantum cryptographic protocol that produces a longer random string from a short seed, certified by Bell-inequality violations rather than trust in the devices.

DeviceNet

DeviceNet is an industrial fieldbus protocol, developed by Allen-Bradley in 1994, that connects controllers with sensors and actuators and carries power over the same cable.

Sep 23, 2026

Devichandraguptam

Devichandraguptam (देवीचन्द्रगुप्तम्) is a Sanskrit drama by Vishakhadatta, author of Mudrarakshasa, dramatizing the Gupta succession crisis of Ramagupta, Dhruvadevi, and Chandragupta II; the complete play is lost, and its fragments were recovered in 1923.

Devika

Devika (Prameela Devi, 1943–2002) was a Tamil and Telugu film actress of about 150 films, granddaughter of pioneer Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu, known for Nenjil Or Aalayam, Karnan, and Sri Krishnavataram; distinct from Devika Rani and later namesakes.

Oct 3, 2026

Devika & Danny

Devika & Danny is a 2025 Telugu supernatural romantic comedy web series on JioHotstar, created by Deepak Raj, directed by B. Kishore, starring Ritu Varma as a music teacher who meets a friendly ghost, Danny, played by Surya Vashistta; 7 episodes, released June 6, 2025.

Devika Rani

Devika Rani Chaudhuri (देविका रानी, 1908–1994), Indian actress-producer, co-founder with Himanshu Rai of Bombay Talkies (1934), star of Karma (1933) and Achhut Kanya (1936), studio head 1940–1945, first Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient (1969) and Padma Shri (1958), the "First Lady of Indian cinema".