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Dimam
Dimam (الضِّمام, al-dhimam) is the Arabic term for a binding grant of protection and safe conduct, a pre-Islamic Arabian institution that passed into Islamic law as the aman granted to the people of war.
DIMAN study
DIMAN (NCT02680327) is a prospective observational feasibility pilot at the Montreal Heart Institute testing recruitment and retention of elderly cardiac surgery patients for a multicenter audit of advance care planning practices and end-of-life communication satisfaction, using CANHELP questionnaires and 5-meter gait speed frailty assessment.
Dimapur (दीमापुर)
Dimapur (दीमापुर) is a city on the Dhansiri River in Nagaland, India, the state's largest city, commercial hub, and airport town, and the ancient capital of the Kachari kingdom.
Dimartino
Dimartino is the stage name of Antonio Di Martino, an Italian singer-songwriter from Palermo known for the duo Colapesce Dimartino and its 2021 hit "Musica leggerissima".
Dimas G. de Oteyza
Dimas G. de Oteyza is a nanoscale physicist at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, known for graphene nanoribbon synthesis and imaging covalent bonds in single-molecule reactions.
Dimcho Debelyanov
Dimcho Debelyanov (Димчо Дебелянов), born in Koprivshtitsa in 1887, was a Bulgarian symbolist poet known for tender elegies, killed in battle in 1916 at 29.
Dimdazenil
Dimdazenil (地达西尼, EVT201, Junoenil) is a benzodiazepine-class partial positive allosteric modulator of the GABAA receptor, approved by China's NMPA on 29 November 2023 for short-term insomnia treatment, the drug's first approval worldwide.
Dime (United States coin)
The dime is the United States 10-cent coin, worth one tenth of a dollar, first minted in 1796 and bearing Franklin D. Roosevelt's portrait since 1946.
Dime novel
The dime novel, also known as the dime store novel, was inexpensive American popular fiction first issued by Beadle and Adams in 1860, best known for Wild West tales.
Dimebag Darrell
Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Lance Abbott, 1966–2004) was the American heavy metal guitarist who co-founded Pantera with his brother Vinnie Paul and later Damageplan, recorded Far Beyond Driven, and was fatally shot onstage in Columbus, Ohio in 2004.
Dimedone
Dimedone, also called methone or dimethyldihydroresorcinol, is a cyclic diketone used in organic chemistry as a classical reagent for detecting aldehydes and as a precursor for heterocycles.
Dimefox
Dimefox (TL 792, Pestox XIV, Terra-Sytam), tetramethylphosphorodiamidic fluoride, CAS 115-26-4, is an obsolete organophosphate systemic insecticide and acaricide developed in the 1940s, used mainly for soil treatment of hops, extremely toxic as a cholinesterase inhibitor, not registered in the US.
Dimefuron
Dimefuron (Chinese: 恶唑隆) is a phenylurea herbicide used against annual broad-leaved weeds; it inhibits photosynthesis at photosystem II and is no longer approved in the EU.
DimeNet
DimeNet, short for directional message passing neural network, is a graph neural network that predicts quantum-mechanical properties of molecules using both interatomic distances and angles.
Dimenhydrinate
Dimenhydrinate, sold as Dramamine and Gravol, is an over-the-counter medication combining the antihistamine diphenhydramine with 8-chlorotheophylline, best known for preventing and treating motion sickness and nausea since 1949.
Dimension
Dimension in topology is a numerical invariant, usually the Lebesgue covering dimension, counting a space's independent directions; homeomorphic spaces share it, and Euclidean space Rn has dimension n.
Dimension (data warehouse)
A dimension, or data dimension, is a data warehouse table of descriptive attributes such as customer, product, or date, joined to a central fact table in a star schema.
Dimension (vector space)
In linear algebra, the dimension of a vector space, also called its Hamel dimension, is the number of vectors in any basis of the space.
Dimension 20
Dimension 20 is an American actual play series that premiered in 2018 on Dropout, where comedians play tabletop roleplaying games, created and mostly dungeon-mastered by Brennan Lee Mulligan.
Dimension 404
Dimension 404 is a 2017 Hulu science fiction anthology series from RocketJump and Lionsgate, created by Dez Dolly and Will Campos, narrated by Mark Hamill, six one-hour episodes, cancelled after one season.
Dimension Capital
Dimension Capital is a New York-based multistage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by former Lux Capital partners Zavain Dar and Adam Goulburn with Nan Li.
Dimension Films
Dimension Films: genre film label founded 1992 under Miramax, run by Bob Weinstein, known for Scream, Scary Movie, and Spy Kids; taken by the Weinsteins to The Weinstein Company in 2005.
Dimension table
Dimension table: in data warehousing, the table storing descriptive attributes (product, customer, date) that give context to numeric facts in a fact table; wide, few rows, surrogate-keyed, star schema component per Kimball.
Dimension theory (algebra)
Dimension theory in commutative algebra studies the Krull dimension of a ring, the supremum of lengths of chains of prime ideals, introduced by Wolfgang Krull in 1928 and matching the geometric dimension of varieties.
Dimension W
Dimension W (ディメンションＷ) is a completed 16-volume, 116-chapter sci-fi action manga by Yuji Iwahara, serialized 2011–2019 in Young Gangan and Monthly Big Gangan; set in 2072, it follows Coil collector Kyouma Mabuchi and the android Mira, with a 12-episode 2016 anime and English release by Yen Press.
Dimensional analysis
Dimensional analysis is a method in physics and engineering that uses physical dimensions like mass, length, and time to check equations, suggest relationships, and reduce variables in experiments.
Dimensional Fund Advisors
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an American investment firm founded in 1981 by David Booth and Rex Sinquefield, building funds around Fama-French factor research rather than stock picking.
Dimensional matrix
A dimensional matrix is a table whose columns are a problem's physical variables and whose rows are fundamental dimensions, central to dimensional analysis and the Buckingham pi theorem.
Dimensional modeling
Dimensional modeling is a data warehouse design method organizing numeric measurements into fact tables surrounded by denormalized dimension tables, presented by Ralph Kimball and Kevin Strehlo in 1995.
Dimensional regularization
Dimensional regularization is a quantum field theory technique that handles ultraviolet divergences by evaluating loop integrals in d dimensions, introduced in 1972 by 't Hooft and Veltman and others.