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Dux
Dux (plural duces), Latin 'leader', was a Roman military title, formalized under Diocletian as frontier command, and the root of duke, duchy, doge, and Mussolini's title duce.
Duxford Aerodrome
Duxford Aerodrome, also known as RAF Duxford, is a historic airfield near Cambridge built by the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and now the site of Imperial War Museum Duxford.
Duy Tan
Duy Tan (Duy Tân), born Nguyen Phuc Vinh San, was emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty from 1907 to 1916, deposed for joining an anti-French uprising.
Duyên Hải Thermal Power Station
Duyên Hải Thermal Power Station, also called Duyen Hai Power Center, is a three-plant coal-fired complex in Trà Vinh province, Vietnam, with about 4,200 MW supplying southern Vietnam.
Duyfken
The Duyfken, a Dutch East India Company vessel, became the first European ship known to sight and chart Australia, mapping Cape York in 1606 under Willem Janszoon.
Duyfken Rupes
Duyfken Rupes is a 518-km-wide rupes (lobate scarp) on Mercury at about 21°S, 132°W, IAU-approved in 2013 and named after Willem Janszoon's ship Duyfken, which sighted Australia in 1606.
Duyun
Duyun (都匀) is a county-level city in Guizhou, China, seat of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. About 349,000 urban residents (2020), 65.88% urbanized, it is the planned regional central city of southern Guizhou.
Duyun power station
Duyun power station, also called Guodian Duyun power station, is a coal-fired power plant in Fuquan, Guizhou, China, with two supercritical units totaling about 1,200 MW.
Düzce, Düzce
Düzce, Düzce: the city and province in northwestern Türkiye, Türkiye's 81st province since December 1999, on the North Anatolian Fault, struck by the 1999 Mw 7.2 earthquake, with an EU-funded sustainable mobility plan (2023–2025).
DV Trading (proprietary trading firm)
DV Trading is a proprietary trading firm founded in Toronto in 2006 by Dino Verbrugge, now headquartered in Chicago and trading futures, options, equities, and cryptocurrency.
dV-Trainer
The dV-Trainer is a virtual reality robotic surgery simulator developed by Mimic Technologies of Seattle that emulates the da Vinci Surgeon's Console, first installed at Indiana University in 2007.
DV01
DV01, also called dollar duration or PV01, is the dollar change in a bond's or swap's value for a one-basis-point change in yield, the standard unit traders use to hedge rate exposure.
Dvaita school
Dvaita school (द्वैत वेदान्त), also called Dvaita Vedanta or Tattvavada, is a dualist school of Vedanta founded by Madhvacharya at Udupi, Karnataka, in the late thirteenth century.
Dvaita Vedanta
Dvaita Vedanta, also called the Madhva sampradaya, is a dualist school of Vedanta founded by Madhvacharya in thirteenth-century Karnataka, holding an eternal difference between Vishnu and souls.
Dvalin Oil and Gas Field
Dvalin Oil and Gas Field is a gas field in the central Norwegian Sea, discovered in 2010, producing since November 2020 via a subsea tie-back to the Heidrun platform, operated by Harbour Energy Norge AS.
Dvapara Yuga (द्वापर युग)
Dvapara Yuga (द्वापर युग), also called Dwapar Yuga, is the third of the four world-ages in Hindu cosmology, preceding Kali Yuga and traditionally lasting 864,000 human years.
Dvārakā (द्वारका)
Dvārakā (द्वारका) is Krishna's legendary city of the Mahabharata and Puranas, said to have sunk into the sea, and the submerged archaeological site off Dwarka, Gujarat, where stone structures, anchors, and Late Harappan pottery have been found since the 1980s.
Dvārakā Nāth Tāgore
Dvārakā Nāth Tāgore (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর; 1794–1846), known as Prince Dwarkanath, was a Bengali zamindar and entrepreneur of Calcutta who founded Carr, Tagore & Company in 1834 and was the grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore.
Dvārakānāth Ṭhākur
Dvārakānāth Ṭhākur (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর), known in English as Dwarkanath Tagore, was a Calcutta merchant and philanthropist who co-founded the Brahmo Sabha and founded Carr, Tagore & Co.
Dvārakānātha Ṭhākura
Dvārakānātha Ṭhākura (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর) is a name in nineteenth-century Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnavism; his dates, lineage, and writings remain undocumented, and the article surveys the Vaishnava milieu instead.
Dvaravati art
Dvaravati art is the Buddhist art of Mon communities in central Thailand from the 6th to 11th centuries, known for stone Buddhas and wheels of the law.
Dvaravati Buddha
The Dvaravati Buddha is a Buddha image type produced in central Thailand between the 6th and 11th centuries under the Mon-speaking Dvaravati culture, typically a standing figure holding both hands in the gesture of instruction.
DVB Project
DVB Project, Digital Video Broadcasting, industry consortium founded 1993 in Europe that designs open digital TV specifications standardized by ETSI; DVB-S, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-I standards used worldwide.
DVB-C
DVB-C (Digital Video Broadcasting – Cable) is a standard for digital television over cable networks, published by ETSI in 1994 and adopted worldwide except North America, where DOCSIS dominated.
DVB-H
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld) is a standard, published as ETSI EN 302 304 in November 2004, for broadcasting television, radio, and data to battery-powered handheld receivers.
DVB-NGH
DVB-NGH (Next Generation Handheld) is a physical-layer specification from the DVB Project for broadcasting to handheld and mobile terminals, approved in 2012 and published by ETSI in 2022.
DVB-RCS
DVB-RCS (Return Channel via Satellite) is a Digital Video Broadcasting standard that adds a two-way return channel to one-way satellite broadcasts, enabling IP traffic over VSAT.
DVB-S
DVB-S (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite) is the 1994 standard for transmitting digital television by satellite, and the first transmission standard of the DVB Project.
DVB-S2
DVB-S2 (Digital Video Broadcasting - Second Generation Satellite) is an open satellite transmission standard ratified by ETSI in 2005, succeeding DVB-S and serving broadcasting, interactive services, and satellite news gathering.
DVB-S2X
DVB-S2X (Digital Video Broadcasting, Satellite, Second Generation eXtensions) is a 2014 set of optional extensions to DVB-S2, adding higher-order modulation, channel bonding, and very-low signal-to-noise operation.