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DroneBase
DroneBase, rebranded as Zeitview in 2023, is an American aerial-inspection company founded in 2014, selling inspection and analytics for solar farms, wind turbines, and roofs.
DroneCAN
DroneCAN, formerly known as UAVCAN v0 until its 2022 renaming, is an open software protocol for communication between flight controllers and CAN devices such as sensors and ESCs.
Dronedarone
Dronedarone (Multaq) is a non-iodinated amiodarone analog antiarrhythmic approved in 2009 to reduce AF hospitalization; contraindicated in decompensated heart failure and permanent AF, where it doubles mortality risk.
DroneDeploy
DroneDeploy is a San Francisco software company, founded in 2013, whose cloud platform turns drone, 360-camera, and robotic captures into maps, 3D models, and reports for construction.
DroneKit
DroneKit is an open-source Python API, launched by drone maker 3D Robotics in 2015, that lets developers read drone telemetry and control vehicles over the MAVLink protocol.
Drones (Muse album)
Drones is Muse's seventh studio album, released 8 June 2015, their first concept album about a person indoctrinated into drone warfare who defects. Produced with Mutt Lange; won the Grammy for Best Rock Album.
DroneSense
DroneSense is a software-as-a-service drone management platform built for public safety agencies such as law enforcement, fire services, and emergency management, acquired by Versaterm in 2025.
Droni
Droni (Georgian: დრონი) is the Georgian-language term for drone, the established Georgian word for an unmanned aircraft, also borne by a youth organization and a newspaper.
Drools
Drools, also known as JBoss Rules, is an open source rule engine and business rule management system written in Java, begun in 2001 and now part of Apache KIE.
Droop control
Droop control is a decentralized control method in which parallel-connected inverters and generators share active and reactive power from local measurements alone, with no communication links, making it the most implemented approach for islanded microgrids.
Droop quota
Droop quota: electoral formula floor(V/(S+1))+1 giving the minimum votes needed to win a seat in single transferable vote and party-list PR. Proposed by H. R. Droop in 1868; used in Ireland and Australia; smaller and more majority-protective than the Hare quota.
Droop-nose
A droop nose is a hinged, movable forward fuselage section on supersonic aircraft, lowered during takeoff and landing so pilots can see the runway, and raised in flight.
Droopy
Droopy, also Droopy Dog, is Tex Avery's deadpan basset hound cartoon character, debuting nameless in MGM's Dumb-Hounded (1943), voiced by Bill Thompson, named in Senor Droopy (1949), with his sole Oscar nomination for One Droopy Knight (1957).
Drop (film)
Drop (2025) is a Christopher Landon thriller starring Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar; a widowed mother on a first date is coerced via anonymous phone drops to kill her date. Blumhouse/Platinum Dunes, Universal, $28.7M worldwide.
Drop (liquid)
A drop is a small volume of liquid bounded by a free surface and held together by surface tension, from raindrops to drops from a nozzle.
Drop (music)
A drop is the climactic moment in an electronic dance music track or DJ set where, after a build-up of tension, the full beat and bass return, prompting dancing.
Drop attack
Drop attack: sudden fall from loss of postural tone without warning, usually without loss of consciousness, with rapid recovery; ICD-11 MB46.3. Causes include cardiovascular, vertebrobasilar, epileptic (atonic seizures), and Tumarkin otolithic crises in Ménière's disease.
Drop bear
Drop bear (Thylarctos plummetus): a fictional predatory koala-like marsupial in Australian folklore, used to scare tourists with tales of tree-dropping attacks, Vegemite and fork repellents, and mock museum and CSIRO profiles.
Drop casting
Drop casting is a solution-based thin-film deposition method in which a drop of solution evaporates on a substrate, leaving a solid film; it requires no deposition apparatus and is standard for lab-scale materials fabrication.
Drop D tuning
Drop D tuning (DADGBE) is a guitar tuning lowering only the low E string a whole step to D, enabling one-finger power chords and a deeper low range; used by Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Beatles, and Jimmy Page.
Drop Dead
"Drop Dead" is a 2026 song by American singer Olivia Rodrigo, released as the lead single from her third album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.
Drop Dead Diva
Drop Dead Diva: American Lifetime comedy-drama (2009-2014, 6 seasons, 78 episodes) in which a dead model's soul returns in plus-size attorney Jane Bingum's body; Brooke Elliott stars; canceled 2013 over costs, then renewed.
Drop Dead Fred
Drop Dead Fred (1991) is a fantasy comedy directed by Ate de Jong, starring Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall as a woman's returned imaginary friend. A Working Title/PolyGram film shot in Minneapolis, it flopped with critics (11% RT) but became a cult favorite.
Drop Dead Gorgeous (film)
Drop Dead Gorgeous is a 1999 American mockumentary black comedy directed by Michael Patrick Jann, written by Lona Williams, satirizing a Minnesota teen beauty pageant; a box office flop that became a cult classic.
Drop impact
Drop impact is the collision of a liquid drop with a solid or liquid surface, ending in deposition, spreading, rebound, or splashing; it matters in inkjet printing, spray cooling, and coating.
Drop It Like It's Hot
"Drop It Like It's Hot" is a 2004 Snoop Dogg single featuring Pharrell Williams, produced by the Neptunes. Its minimal tongue-click beat gave both performers their first Billboard Hot 100 number one and earned two 2005 Grammy nominations.
Drop kick
Drop kick: a kick made by dropping the ball from the hands and kicking it as it rises from its first bounce. Used for all rugby kick-offs and drop-outs, dropped goals, and sevens conversions; once standard in American football.
Drop shipping
Drop shipping is a retail fulfillment method where the retailer sells goods it does not possess, and a supplier ships them directly to the customer.
Drop Site News
Drop Site News is an independent investigative Substack news outlet launched July 2024 in Washington, D.C. by Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Nausicaa Renner, formerly of The Intercept; reader-funded, left-rated, banned in Pakistan in 2024.
DROP study
DROP study (Discharge Recommendations for Older Adults Using Physical Outcome Measure, NCT06903832): observational NUH Singapore study testing Sit to Stand and Gait Speed Tests for physiotherapist discharge planning in hospitalized adults 65+, distinct from the DROP deprescribing trial.