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Idiosyncrasy
Idiosyncrasy, from Greek idiosynkrasia (idios + syn + krasis), means a peculiarity unique to an individual; originally a medical term for physical constitution, later a personality trait, linked to idiographic psychology.
Idiosyncratic risk
Idiosyncratic risk, also called unsystematic risk, is the part of an investment's risk specific to a particular company, sector, or asset class, and it can be reduced through diversification.
Idiot
Idiot: English word from Greek idiōtēs (private person, layman), via Old French and Latin; early 14th century for mental deficiency; former clinical category below imbecile and moron, now an insult.
Idiot (ఇడియట్: ఓ చంటి గాడి ప్రేమ కథ) (2002 film)
Idiot (ఇడియట్: ఓ చంటి గాడి ప్రేమ కథ) is a 2002 Telugu action romantic comedy directed by Puri Jagannadh, starring Ravi Teja and Rakshita; a remake of his Kannada hit Appu, it grossed ₹16 crore on a ₹2 crore budget and marked Ravi Teja's career turning point.
Idiot plot
Idiot plot: a plot sustained only by supposedly competent characters acting stupidly; coined by James Blish, popularized by Roger Ebert's 1990 Narrow Margin review; distinct from the Idiot Ball and plot holes.
Idioteque
Idioteque: Radiohead song, track 8 of Kid A (2000), 5:09, built on a loop from Paul Lansky's Mild und Leise (seconds 44-53) plus Arthur Kreiger's Short Piece, created by Jonny Greenwood's homemade drum machine; a permanent live staple.
Idiotka
Idiotka is a 2025 American indie comedy, the feature debut of writer-director Nastasya Popov, starring Anna Baryshnikov as Margarita Levlansky, a Russian American designer competing on the reality show Slay, Serve, Survive; premiered at SXSW 2025, released by Utopia in 2026.
Idiots (2026 film)
Idiots (2026), originally titled The Shitheads, is Macon Blair's Sundance road-trip comedy starring Dave Franco, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and Mason Thames, released by Independent Film Company on August 28, 2026.
iDISCO
iDISCO is a solvent-based tissue-clearing protocol, introduced in 2014, that combines whole-organ antibody staining with clearing so entire organs and embryos can be imaged in 3D by light-sheet microscopy.
Idit Muallem-Yedid
Idit Muallem-Yedid is an Israeli venture capital investor who served as a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital, known for growth investments in AppsFlyer, Riskified, and DriveNets.
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race: annual ~1,000-mile Alaska sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, first run 1973, founded by Joe Redington Sr. and Dorothy Page; alternating northern/southern routes, record 1,128 miles in 2025, declining fields, Jessie Holmes champion 2025-2026.
Idkū
Idkū (إدكو, also Edku) is a city of about 105,875 people (2026) in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, at 31.3058°N, 30.2956°E, on Lake Idku, a 13,000-hectare brackish Nile Delta lagoon and major fishery.
IDL (programming language)
IDL, or Interactive Data Language, is a commercial, dynamically typed, array-oriented programming language for data analysis and visualization, used especially in astronomy, remote sensing, and medical imaging.
IDLE
IDLE, short for Integrated DeveLopment Environment and named after Monty Python's Eric Idle, is the development and learning environment bundled with Python; Guido van Rossum created it around 1998.
Idle Hands
Idle Hands (1999) is a horror comedy directed by Rodman Flender, starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, and Jessica Alba, about a stoner teen's possessed right hand; a box-office flop that became a cult favorite.
Idles
Idles (IDLES) are a Bristol, England post-punk/punk rock band formed in 2009, fronted by Joe Talbot. Albums: Brutalism (2017), Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018), Ultra Mono (2020, UK No. 1), Crawler (2021), TANGK (2024), on Partisan Records.
Idlewild (film)
Idlewild (2006) is a musical drama film written and directed by Bryan Barber, starring OutKast's André 3000 and Big Boi as friends in a 1930s Prohibition-era Georgia speakeasy; released by Universal/HBO Films, grossing about $12.5 million.
Idlewild (Outkast album)
Idlewild (2006) is the sixth and final studio album by OutKast, also the soundtrack to their musical film of the same name; singles "Mighty O," "Idlewild Blue," "Morris Brown"; Metascore 72, RIAA platinum.
Idlewild South
Idlewild South is the Allman Brothers Band's second studio album, released September 23, 1970 on Atco/Capricorn, produced by Tom Dowd, featuring Midnight Rider, Revival, and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.
Idli (இட்லி)
Idli (இட்லி), also idly, is a South Indian steamed cake from fermented rice and urad dal batter, leavened by Leuconostoc and Streptococcus. Earliest mention iddalige, c. 920 CE; modern form 10th–13th century; origins contested, possibly Indonesian kedli.
Idli Kadai
Idli Kadai (இட்லி கடை) is a 2025 Tamil family drama written, directed by, and starring Dhanush, with Nithya Menen and Rajkiran; released 1 October 2025, streaming on Netflix, grossing ₹71.86 crore worldwide.
Idlib (إدلب)
Idlib (إدلب) is a city and governorate capital in northwestern Syria on the Turkish border, long the main rebel-held enclave under HTS, now under the Syrian Transitional Government, with roughly 2.8–3.2 million people and heavy displacement.
Idlib Governorate
Idlib Governorate (مُحافظة ادلب) is one of Syria's 14 governorates, in the country's northwest, with its capital at Idlib city and five districts divided into 26 sub-districts.
Idlib offensive (2018–2020)
The Idlib offensive (2018–2020) was a Syrian government and allied campaign against the rebel-held Greater Idlib area, capturing about 2,700 sq km before a March 2020 ceasefire.
idlib Zoo
idlib Zoo (حديقة حيوانات إدلب) is a zoo in Idlib city, northwestern Syria, opened 18 November 2021 as the city's first zoo, with animals brought from Turkey and Iraq; distinct from the wartime Magic World zoo near Aleppo.
Idntt
idntt (아이덴티티) is a 24-member South Korean boy group under Modhaus, the agency behind tripleS, debuting in stages through units unevermet, yesweare, and itsnotover; 20 members active as of 2026, with street hip-hop sound and fan-voted Gravity lineups.
Ido
Ido is a constructed international auxiliary language created in 1907 as a reformed version of Esperanto, still spoken by an estimated 2,000 to 5,000 people.
Ido Amit
Ido Amit is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute who developed MARS-seq and related single-cell RNA sequencing technologies, applying them to immunity in cancer, autoimmunity, and neurodegeneration.
Ido Golding
Ido Golding is a biological physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for measuring gene expression and viral infection inside individual bacterial cells.
Ido Kaminer
Ido Kaminer is an Israeli physicist and professor at the Technion who heads the AdQuanta lab and is known as a creator of free-electron quantum optics, plus the Ramanujan Machine for generating conjectures about fundamental constants.