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Vinod Tawde
Vinod Tawde is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha since 2026, after serving as a Maharashtra cabinet minister.
Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Vinod Vaikuntanathan is a cryptographer who is the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering at MIT and chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies, known for fully homomorphic encryption.
Vinodbhai Chavda
Vinodbhai Chavda (Chavda Vinod Lakhamshi) is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Kachchh constituency in Gujarat in the Lok Sabha since 2014.
Vinodhaya Sitham
Vinodhaya Sitham (விநோதய சித்தம்) is a 2021 Tamil ZEE5 Original fantasy comedy-drama directed by and starring Samuthirakani as Time, with Thambi Ramaiah as Parasuram, a man granted 90 extra days of life; remade in Telugu as Bro (2023).
Vinodhini Vaidyanathan
Vinodhini Vaidyanathan (வினோதினி வைத்தியநாதன்), Tamil theatre, film and web-series actor, playwright and director; Koothu-p-Pattarai-trained, known as Kalamma in Game Over (2019) and Vikatan Award winner for Aandavan Kattalai.
Vinodol Code
The Vinodol Code (Vinodolski zakonik) is a legal code of 77 articles adopted on 6 January 1288 in Novi, the oldest Croatian legal monument, written in Glagolitic script.
Vinogradov (Martian crater)
Vinogradov is a large, heavily degraded impact crater in southern Margaritifer Terra, Mars, 209.66 km (IAU) or 224 km (NASA) across, IAU-named 1979 for Aleksander P. Vinogradov, with light-toned deposits and Fe/Mg-smectite clays.
Vinogradov's mean value theorem
Vinogradov's mean value theorem is a theorem in analytic number theory giving the correct order of magnitude for Vinogradov's integral, proved by Wooley and by Bourgain, Demeter, and Guth.
Vinorelbine
Vinorelbine, sold as Navelbine, is a semi-synthetic vinca alkaloid chemotherapy drug derived from vinblastine that blocks cell division and is used mainly to treat non-small cell lung cancer.
Vinoth Chandar
Vinoth Chandar is a distributed systems engineer, creator and PMC chair/VP of Apache Hudi, and founder-CEO of Onehouse, the managed open data lakehouse company.
Vinothan N. Manoharan
Vinothan N. Manoharan is an American soft matter physicist and chemical engineer who holds a professorship at Harvard University, known for work on colloidal self-assembly, holographic microscopy, and structural color.
Vinotonus (crater on Ceres)
Vinotonus, a 140-km-wide impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 43.02N, 95.12E, named for a Celtic Briton god of vines; IAU approved 2015; deep (~5 km) and degraded, near shallow Coniraya.
Vinovia
Vinovia, also recorded as Vinovium, is the Roman name for the Roman fort and settlement at Binchester, County Durham, established around 80 AD on Dere Street.
Vinpocetine
Vinpocetine is a synthetic derivative of vincamine, used as a prescription drug for cerebrovascular disorders in Europe and Asia and sold in the US as a supplement.
VINS-Mono
VINS-Mono is an open-source, real-time monocular visual-inertial state estimator that fuses a camera and low-cost IMU to estimate metric 6-DoF motion, released by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology researchers in 2017.
Vinson Court
The Vinson Court (1946-1953), the U.S. Supreme Court under 13th Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, was a divided Truman-era bench that decided Youngstown, Dennis, Sweatt, and McLaurin and left Brown v. Board undecided at Vinson's death.
Vinson Filyaw
Vinson Wayne Filyaw (1969-2021), the 'Girl in the Bunker' kidnapper, abducted 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf in South Carolina in 2006 while posing as police, held her ten days underground, and received a record 421-year sentence before dying in prison.
Vinson Massif
Vinson Massif, in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, holds Antarctica's highest summit, Mount Vinson, 4,892 m by 2004 GPS. Named for Carl Vinson; first climbed 1966-67 by Nicholas Clinch's American expedition; a Seven Summits peak.
Vint
Vint (Винт, "screw") was a late 19th-century Russian four-player partnership trick-taking card game with an auction, no dummy, and escalating trick values; ancestor of Contract Bridge, surviving in Finland as Skruuvi.
ViNT (robot foundation model)
ViNT, or Visual Navigation Transformer, is a robot foundation model for vision-based navigation, developed at UC Berkeley and posted to arXiv in June 2023. One policy controls many robots.
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf, full name Vinton Gray Cerf, is an American computer scientist born in 1943 who co-designed TCP/IP, the Internet's core protocols, and shared the 2004 Turing Award with Robert Kahn.
Vintafolide
Vintafolide (EC145), an Endocyte folic acid–DAVLBH small molecule drug conjugate targeting folate receptor alpha; phase III PROCEED failed its PFS endpoint and the EMA application was withdrawn in 2014.
Vintage
Vintage (wine): the year grapes were harvested, printed on the label; also called millésime. Distinguished from non-vintage blends; governed by US 95%/85% rules and OIV's 85% standard.
Vintage amateur radio
Vintage amateur radio is the hobby of collecting, restoring, and operating older transmitting and receiving equipment, typically vacuum-tube gear from the 1920s through the 1970s, plus earlier spark-gap apparatus.
Vintage base ball
Vintage base ball: amateur baseball played under 19th-century rules, customs, and equipment (two-word spelling until 1896). Also historic base ball; wooden bats, no gloves, 1864/1867/1886 rulebooks; VBBA national body, 200+ US teams.
Vintage capital model
The vintage capital model is a growth and investment model in which capital goods belong to year-by-year generations, each carrying the technology of its birth year.
Vintage clothing
Vintage clothing: garments and accessories at least 20 but under 100 years old, distinct from antique (100+ years) and retro (new old-style). Dated by labels, construction, and sizing; now a major resale market segment.
Vintage Investment Partners
Vintage Investment Partners is a multi-strategy venture capital firm based in Herzliya Pituach, Israel, founded by Alan Feld in 2003, investing in venture funds, secondaries, and growth rounds.
Vinted
Vinted is a Lithuanian online marketplace for buying and selling second-hand items, especially clothing. Founded in Vilnius in 2008, it has over 80 million users.
Vintilă Brătianu
Vintilă Brătianu was a Romanian economist, financier, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania from 1927 to 1928 and led the National Liberal Party until his death.