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Doc Ricketts
Doc Ricketts is a remotely operated vehicle used by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute for deep-sea research, named after the marine biologist character in Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
Doc Rivers
Doc Rivers (Glenn Anton Rivers, born 1961) is an American basketball coach, former point guard, and broadcaster; 2008 NBA champion Celtics coach, 2000 Coach of the Year, 2026 Hall of Fame inductee, and Bucks head coach until April 2026.
Doc Samson
Doc Samson (Dr. Leonard Samson), Marvel Comics psychiatrist and gamma-powered superhero, first in Incredible Hulk #141 (July 1971) by Roy Thomas and Herb Trimpe; green-haired strongman whose strength varies with hair length, Banner's therapist, star of 1996 and 2006 solo series.
Doc Savage
Doc Savage, Clark Savage Jr., the Man of Bronze, is a pulp adventure hero from Street & Smith's Doc Savage Magazine (181 issues, 1933-1949), mostly written by Lester Dent as Kenneth Robeson and an acknowledged model for Superman.
Doc Scurlock
Doc Scurlock (Josiah Gordon Scurlock, 1850 or 1849–1929), Alabama-born cowboy, gunfighter, and founding Regulator leader in New Mexico's Lincoln County War alongside Billy the Kid; later a Texas farmer and bookkeeper in Eastland.
Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen (Carl H. Severinsen, born 1927, Arlington, Oregon) is an American trumpeter and bandleader, Tonight Show music director 1967-1992 under Johnny Carson, 1986 Grammy winner, later San Miguel 5 leader in Mexico.
Doc Shaw
Doc Shaw (Larramie Cortez Shaw, born 1992) is an American actor known as Malik Payne on Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Marcus Little on The Suite Life on Deck, and Boomer on Disney XD's Pair of Kings; screen credits run roughly 2006–2014.
Doc Watson
Doc Watson (Arthel Lane Watson, 1923-2012), blind American folk and bluegrass guitarist from Deep Gap, North Carolina; NEA Heritage Fellow, seven-time Grammy winner, and the leading popularizer of flatpicking guitar.
Doc2vec
Doc2vec, originally published as Paragraph Vector, is an unsupervised algorithm proposed by Quoc Le and Tomas Mikolov in 2014 that learns fixed-length dense vector representations of entire documents.
Doca da Penha
Doca da Penha (Edgar/Edgard Alves de Andrade, alias Urso), born 1970, is a Brazilian Comando Vermelho leader of the Complexo da Penha, Rio de Janeiro; a fugitive since 2016/2017, target of the October 2025 mega-operation, with 112 homicide records and a R$100,000 reward.
DocBook
DocBook is an XML schema for authoring documents, especially books and papers on computer hardware and software, that renders content to HTML, PDF, EPUB, and man pages.
Doce
Doce (Rio Doce), 853-km river in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, Brazil, flowing to the Atlantic at Regência; site of the 2015 Fundão dam collapse and the 2024 R$ 170 billion reparation agreement.
Docent
Docent, from Latin docere, is a European academic title beyond the PhD: a personal qualification in Sweden and Finland, associate professor in Czechia, related to the German Privatdozent and habilitation.
Docent (Transluce)
Docent is a tool from the AI research organization Transluce, launched in 2025, that uses language models to monitor, describe, and intervene on AI agent behavior at scale.
Docetaxel
Docetaxel (Taxotere) is a semisynthetic taxane chemotherapy from Taxus baccata that stabilizes microtubules; FDA-approved 1996 for breast, lung, prostate, gastric, and head and neck cancers, with neutropenia and fluid retention as key toxicities.
Docetaxel plus enzalutamide
Docetaxel plus enzalutamide is a combination regimen for advanced prostate cancer pairing the chemotherapy docetaxel with the androgen receptor inhibitor enzalutamide, studied in metastatic disease but not approved as a combination.
Docetaxel regimen
A docetaxel regimen is a chemotherapy protocol built around docetaxel, a taxane given intravenously, alone or with partners such as prednisone, to treat breast, lung, prostate, and other cancers.
Docetaxel/gemcitabine regimen
The docetaxel/gemcitabine regimen, also called docetaxel and gemcitabine, is a doublet chemotherapy combination pairing a taxane with an antimetabolite, best documented for soft-tissue sarcoma, especially leiomyosarcoma.
Docetism
Docetism, also called Doceticism, is the label for early Christian claims that Christ's earthly body was apparent rather than real, first attested around 110 by Ignatius of Antioch.
Dochim
Dochim (도침), died 661, was a Baekje Buddhist monk who with Boksin led the Baekje restoration after the Silla–Tang conquest of 660, enthroning Buyeo Pung before Boksin killed him.
Dociparstat sodium
Dociparstat sodium (ODSH, DSTAT, CX-01) is a non-anticoagulant 2-O,3-O-desulfated heparin derivative inhibiting CXCL12/CXCR4, RAGE, and heparanase; investigated in AML, MDS, and COVID-19, with development stopped by Chimerix.
Dock
A dock is an artificial enclosure of water, closed by gates or locks, where vessels can be berthed, loaded, or repaired away from the tide.
Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs (Moran Lee Boggs, 1898-1971) was a Virginia old-time banjo player and singer who fused Appalachian ballads with blues via a three-finger up-picking style; recorded 12 sides in the 1920s, appeared on the Anthology of American Folk Music, and was rediscovered by Mike Seeger in 1963.
Dock Ellis
Dock Ellis (Dock Phillip Ellis Jr., 1945-2008), MLB pitcher 1968-1979, 138-119, 3.46 ERA; threw a 1970 no-hitter he said was on LSD, 1971 All-Star and World Series winner, later a drug counselor.
Dock landing ship
A dock landing ship (LSD), or Landing Ships, Dock, is an amphibious warfare ship that floods a stern well deck so landing craft carrying troops and vehicles can motor ashore.
Dock scheduling
Dock scheduling, or dock appointment scheduling, assigns arrival time slots and dock doors to trucks at warehouses, distribution centers, and port terminals to reduce congestion.
DOCK8
DOCK8 (dedicator of cytokinesis 8) is a protein encoded on chromosome 9 that regulates the immune cell cytoskeleton by activating Cdc42; its loss causes a rare combined immunodeficiency.
Docker (company)
Docker, Inc., originally dotCloud, is a Palo Alto company founded by Solomon Hykes that commercializes Docker container technology through Docker Desktop and Docker Hub subscriptions.
Docker (software)
Docker, also known as Docker Engine, is a platform for building, shipping, and running applications in containers using Linux kernel features, first released in 2013.
Docker Compose
Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications: services, networks, and volumes are described in one YAML file and started with a single command.