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Dialectometry
Dialectometry, or quantitative dialectology, measures distances and similarities between dialects using statistical and computational methods. Founded by Jean Séguy (dialectométrie) and developed by Hans Goebl's Salzburg school, it uses aggregate analysis, edit distance, and mapping.
Dialetheism
Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions, called dialetheias, are both true and false, developed by Graham Priest and Richard Routley in the late 1970s.
Dialifos
Dialifos (dialifor, Torak, CAS 10311-84-9) is an obsolete organophosphate insecticide and acaricide, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor with rat oral LD50 5-71 mg/kg; its JMPR ADI was withdrawn in 1982 and it is not EU-approved.
Dialium
Dialium L. is a pantropical genus of Fabaceae trees (subfamily Dialioideae), type species D. indum, with about 37 accepted species, indehiscent edible-pulped fruits (velvet tamarind, keranji), and centers of diversity in West-Central Africa and western Malesia.
Diallel analysis
Diallel analysis is a quantitative genetics method in which inbred lines are crossed in all pairwise combinations, partitioning progeny performance into general and specific combining ability effects.
Diallyl disulfide
Diallyl disulfide (DADS) is an organosulfur compound making up 17.5 to 35.6% of garlic oil, formed when allicin breaks down and giving garlic its odor.
Diallyl sulfide
Diallyl sulfide is an organic sulfide with a strong garlic odor, formed when crushed garlic's allicin decomposes, and a standard inhibitor of the enzyme CYP2E1.
Dialog (organization)
Dialog (organization), also Dialog Society, is an invitation-only secret society founded in 2006 by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman, holding off-the-record elite retreats; its membership grading system and 222-person 2026 retreat roster leaked in June 2026.
Diálogos
Diálogos, subtitled Artes, Letras, Ciencias humanas, was a Mexican cultural and literary magazine directed by Ramón Xirau, published from 1964 to 1985 and affiliated with El Colegio de México.
Dialogue
Dialogue: a conversation between two or more people and a literary form, from Greek dialegeisthai, to converse. Covers Socratic dialectic, dialogical logic of Lorenzen and Lorenz, dialogue games, and dialogue systems.
Dialogue (Bakhtin)
Dialogue (Bakhtin), or dialogism, is Mikhail Bakhtin's concept that every utterance responds to past discourse and anticipates an answer, developed with Voloshinov's 1929 Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, linked to heteroglossia and polyphony, and distinct from everyday conversation.
Dialogue between a Man and His God
The Dialogue between a Man and His God is an Old Babylonian Akkadian poem of sixty-nine lines in which a suffering man complains to his god and is healed.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) is Galileo's 1632 book defending the Copernican system, published in Florence.
Dialogue of Pessimism
The Dialogue of Pessimism is an Akkadian dialogue in which a master and his slave debate a series of actions, with the slave endorsing each and its renunciation.
Dialogue state tracking
Dialogue state tracking (DST) is the task in task-oriented dialogue systems of estimating the user's goal each turn as (slot, value) pairs that guide the system's next action.
Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a Côte d'Ivoire body created in 2011 to foster reconciliation after the post-election crisis that killed at least 3,000 people.
Dialysis
Dialysis is a medical procedure that removes waste products and excess water from the blood when the kidneys fail, mainly by hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
Diamagnetism
Diamagnetism is a weak magnetic response in which a material develops a magnetization opposite to an applied magnetic field, giving a negative susceptibility present in all matter.
Diamanda Galás
Diamanda Galás (born 1955, San Diego) is an American avant-garde vocalist, pianist, and composer; debut The Litanies of Satan (1982), AIDS trilogy Masque of the Red Death, Plague Mass, multiphonic extended vocal technique, Intravenal Sound Operations label.
Diamane
Diamane is a two-dimensional diamond-like carbon film in which bilayer graphene is converted to an sp³-bonded lattice by chemical treatment or pressure, with candidate uses in quantum devices and photonics.
Diamant
Diamant, French for diamond, was France's first satellite launch vehicle, flown from 1965 to 1975; its debut launch carried the Astérix satellite and made France the third space power.
Diamant Hysenaj
Diamant Hysenaj is an American Republican politician and real estate developer, the 2026 GOP nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 14th District against incumbent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Diamantina
Diamantina is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, about 290 km north of Belo Horizonte, founded as the colonial diamond-mining settlement of Tijuco, with a UNESCO-listed historic center.
Diamantina National Park
Diamantina National Park, a 507,000-hectare former cattle station gazetted in 1992 in Queensland's Channel Country, protects Diamantina River wetlands, Maiawali homelands, and threatened bilbies, kowaris, and night parrots.
Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Diamantina is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, built on the colonial diamond-mining settlement of Arraial do Tijuco, whose historic center became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc.
DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc. is a Minneapolis-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for severe ischemic disease, with lead drug candidate DM199 in acute ischemic stroke and preeclampsia.
Diamer-Bhasha Dam
The Diamer-Bhasha Dam is an under-construction gravity dam on the Indus River in northern Pakistan, designed to store 8.1 MAF of water and generate 4,500 MW.
Diameter
Diameter is the greatest distance between any two points of a set; in a circle it is a chord through the center and equals twice the radius.
Diametral pitch
Diametral pitch (DP) is a measure of gear tooth size in inch units, defined as the number of teeth divided by the pitch diameter in inches.
Diamictite
Diamictite is a lithified, poorly sorted siliciclastic sedimentary rock with a wide clast size range and no fixed origin; its widespread deposits record ancient glaciations such as the Cryogenian Snowball Earth episodes.