All articles starting with D

DVB-SH

DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handhelds) is a mobile broadcast standard, published by ETSI in 2008, for delivering video to handheld devices over hybrid satellite and terrestrial networks.

DVB-T

DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial) is the ETSI standard for broadcasting digital television from terrestrial transmitters using OFDM, adopted in Spain and over 110 countries; its successor is DVB-T2.

DVB-T2

DVB-T2 (Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial) is a standard for digital terrestrial television, offering far more capacity than DVB-T and carrying Freeview HD since 2009.

DVC (data version control)

DVC (Data Version Control) is a free, open-source command-line tool that versions large datasets and machine learning models alongside code, announced in 2017 and stewarded by lakeFS since 2025.

DVD

DVD, an abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc, is an optical disc format introduced in 1995, holding 4.7 gigabytes per side and succeeding the CD as the dominant home-video medium.

DVD player

A DVD player is a device that reads digital video and audio from a DVD disc and plays it on a television, launched in Japan in 1996.

DVD region code

A DVD region code is a digital rights restriction dividing the world into numbered playback regions, preventing a licensed player from playing discs set for other regions.

DVD screensaver

The DVD screensaver, also known as the bouncing DVD logo, is an idle animation where the DVD Video logo bounces across the screen, changing color.

DVD-Video

DVD-Video (DVD-V) is the DVD application format for distributing movies on 120 mm optical discs, first played on players sold in Tokyo in November 1996.

Dvicio

Dvicio is a Spanish pop band of five members from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near Madrid, led by singer Andrés Ceballos, who broke out in 2014 with "Paraíso" and "Enamórate".

Oct 22, 2026

Dvipada

Dvipada (ద్విపద) is a Telugu couplet verse meter in which each line has three Indra feet and one Surya foot, used for both classical kavyas and folk songs.

Dvizh

Dvizh (движ) is Russian youth slang for a lively party, happening, or general buzz of activity, the defining party and concert slang of Russian-speaking cities in the 2010s.

DVL-aided inertial navigation

DVL-aided inertial navigation is the dominant navigation method for autonomous underwater vehicles: an inertial navigation system is continuously corrected with velocity measurements from a Doppler velocity log.

DVL2

DVL2 (dishevelled segment polarity protein 2, HGNC:3086, Gene ID 1856) is a human gene at 17p13.1 encoding a 736-aa cytoplasmic adaptor that transduces canonical and non-canonical Wnt signals from frizzled receptors; one of three DVL paralogs, ubiquitously expressed, GenCC Moderate.

DVNP family

DVNP family (dinoflagellate/viral nucleoproteins): small, basic, virus-derived DNA-binding proteins that replaced histones as the main genome-packaging proteins of dinoflagellates, acquired from Imitervirales giant viruses via horizontal gene transfer.

Dvorák (Mercurian crater)

Dvorák (Dvorak) is an 82-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 9.6°S, 11.9°W in quadrangle H-06, approved by the IAU in 1976 and named for the Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák.

Dvorak keyboard layout

The Dvorak keyboard layout, patented by August Dvorak and William Dealey in 1936, is an alternative to QWERTY placing common letters on the home row for faster typing.

Dvorak technique

The Dvorak technique is a method for estimating tropical cyclone intensity from satellite imagery, developed by Vernon Dvorak at NOAA in the early 1970s and still the worldwide standard.

Sep 24, 2026

Dvortsovyi prikaz

Dvortsovyi prikaz (Дворцовый приказ), known as the Prikaz of the Great Palace, was the Muscovite central department administering the grand prince's palace lands and household from the mid-15th century.

DVS study

DVS study: research on the Dynamic Vision Sensor, an event camera reporting pixel-level brightness changes at microsecond resolution. Covers origins (Mahowald and Mead silicon retina), tracking, driving datasets, and the CARLA sim-to-real gap.

DVS128

DVS128 is a 128 × 128 pixel event camera, a dynamic vision sensor whose pixels asynchronously report light changes as digital events, described in 2008 by ETH Zurich researchers.

Dvsn

Dvsn (pronounced "division") is a Toronto alternative R&B duo of vocalist Daniel Daley and producer Nineteen85 (Paul Jefferies). Formed 2015, OVO Sound signees known for Sept. 5th, Morning After, and A Muse in Her Feelings; later signed to So So Def/HYBE.

DVT trial

DVT trial: randomized clinical trials of deep vein thrombosis treatment, chiefly cancer-associated VTE trials such as CARAVAGGIO, ADAM VTE, and ONCO DVT, comparing apixaban, edoxaban, rivaroxaban, and dalteparin for efficacy and bleeding.

Sep 23, 2026

Dvyashraya Kavya

The Dvyashraya Kavya, also known as the Kumarapalacharita, is a Sanskrit and Prakrit historical court poem composed around 1160 by the Jain monk and grammarian Hemachandra.

Oct 22, 2026

Dwaben War

The Dwaben War, also called the Kumase-Dwaben civil war, was an 1875 conflict in which Kumasi defeated the seceding Asante province of Juaben, whose refugees founded New Juaben.

Dwane Casey

Dwane Casey (born 1957) is an American basketball coach, 2018 NBA Coach of the Year with the Toronto Raptors, former head coach of the Timberwolves, Raptors, and Pistons (494-570), now Pistons Senior Advisor of Basketball Operations.

Dwango

Dwango (株式会社ドワンゴ) is a Tokyo-based Japanese internet media company founded by Nobuo Kawakami in 1997, best known as the operator of Niconico and a subsidiary of KADOKAWA since 2014.

Dwango User Entertainment

Dwango User Entertainment (株式会社ドワンゴ・ユーザーエンタテインメント) was a Tokyo-based record company and rights administrator owned by Dwango, active in Vocaloid music until it was absorbed into Dwango in 2014.

Dwarakish (ದ್ವಾರಕೀಶ್)

Dwarakish (ದ್ವಾರಕೀಶ್), born Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath (1942–2024), was a Kannada film actor, comedian, director, and producer who founded Dwarakish Chitra in 1969, produced Mayor Muthanna and Apthamitra, and made the first Kannada film shot outside India.