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Destruction of Ugarit
The destruction of Ugarit, also called the Fall of Ugarit, was the burning of the Levantine port city around 1190–1185 BC during the Late Bronze Age collapse.
Destruction of Warsaw
The Destruction of Warsaw was the near-total razing of Poland's capital by German forces during World War II, planned by Heinrich Himmler after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
Destruction under the Mongol Empire
Destruction under the Mongol Empire covers thirteenth-century conquest devastation: the Khwarazmian campaign, the sack of Baghdad in 1258, Hungary 1241-1242, disputed death tolls near 40 million, archaeological revision of total ruin, and the debunked Caffa plague-catapult story.
Destructive distillation
Destructive distillation is the heating of a solid such as coal or wood in the absence of air so it decomposes chemically, yielding coke or charcoal, tars, and gases.
Destructive Tendencies
Destructive Tendencies is a British uptempo hardcore act formed in 2010, known for its low "deep kick" sound, the 2015 number one "Sound Becomes One", and its label Masters of Hardcore.
Destructive testing
Destructive testing is a family of engineering methods in which a material, component, or structure is loaded or broken to determine its strength and failure behavior, complementing non-destructive testing.
Destructo
Destructo is the stage name of Gary Richards, an American DJ and producer known for G-house music who founded the HARD festivals and the Friendship cruise.
Destry Rides Again
Destry Rides Again (1939) is a Universal comic Western directed by George Marshall, starring James Stewart as a gunless deputy and Marlene Dietrich as saloon singer Frenchy, based on Max Brand's 1930 novel.
DeSu7
DeSu7 (দেসু7), 2026 Bengali action drama-romance, Dev Adhikari's directorial debut, his seventh film with Subhashree Ganguly, with Anirban Bhattacharya in dual roles; set in fictional Simantapur near the India–Bangladesh border, released 16 October 2026.
Desugared orange juice
Desugared orange juice, or desugared fermented orange juice (GRN 679), is orange juice fermented with Schizosaccharomyces pombe to remove sugars, then pasteurized and dealcoholized; FDA had no questions in 2017.
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (Spirillum desulfuricans) is the type species of Desulfovibrio, a gram-negative anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacterium from freshwater, soil, and marine habitats, a model organism for sulfate respiration, corrosion, and metal bioremediation.
Desulfovibrio vulgaris
Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Nitratidesulfovibrio vulgaris), an anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacterium; Hildenborough strain, genome 3,570,858 bp sequenced 2004, first SRB genome; model for sulfate respiration, hydrogen cycling, metal bioremediation, and biocorrosion.
Desulfurococcales
Desulfurococcales (Desulfurococcus order, synonym "Igneococcales") is an order of hyperthermophilic, mostly neutrophilic archaea in class Thermoprotei, growing optimally at 85-106 degrees C, closely related to Sulfolobales, with families Desulfurococcaceae and Pyrodictiaceae.
Desvenlafaxine
Desvenlafaxine (Pristiq) is an SNRI antidepressant, the active metabolite of venlafaxine, FDA-approved in 2008 for adult major depressive disorder at 50 mg once daily, with renal dose adjustments and a suicidality boxed warning.
Desventuradas Islands
Desventuradas Islands (Islas Desventuradas): remote uninhabited Chilean archipelago of San Ambrosio and San Félix, about 840 km off Antofagasta, with extreme marine endemism and the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.
Det
Det is a long poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, published in 1969 and widely regarded as her breakthrough and a central work of Danish system poetry.
Det de Beus
Det de Beus (Anna Maria Bernadette de Beus, 1958-2013), Dutch field hockey goalkeeper for EMHC Eindhoven with 105 caps, Olympic gold 1984 and bronze 1988, multiple World Cup and European titles.
Detached binary
A detached binary is a binary star system in which neither component fills its Roche lobe. It is one of three standard configurations in the Roche-model of close binaries.
Detached eddy simulation
Detached eddy simulation (DES) is a hybrid CFD approach that treats boundary layers with RANS equations and resolves detached eddies with LES, first proposed in 1997.
Detached objects
Detached objects are trans-Neptunian objects whose perihelia lie far beyond Neptune's orbit, keeping them detached from the planet's gravity; Sedna and 2012 VP113 are known examples.
Detachment (film)
Detachment (2011) is a Tony Kaye drama starring Adrien Brody as substitute teacher Henry Barthes at a failing US public school; premiered at Tribeca, released 2012, Metascore 52, RT 59%.
Detachment A
Detachment A (39th Special Forces Detachment) was a classified U.S. Army Special Forces unit in West Berlin, 1956–1984, conducting stay-behind unconventional warfare, sabotage, and counterterrorism, including Tehran reconnaissance in the 1980 Iran hostage rescue.
Detachment fault
A detachment fault is a large, gently dipping normal fault along which the upper crust slides away during extension, exposing deeper rocks in metamorphic core complexes.
Detail drawing
A detail drawing is a large-scale architectural drawing showing a small part of a building, such as a wall junction, with exact construction, dimensions, and materials.
Detailed balance
Detailed balance is a condition on stochastic systems, such as Markov chains, requiring that probability flow between each pair of states equals the reverse flow, implying reversibility.
Detailed City Experience
Detailed City Experience is an Apple Maps feature introduced with iOS 15 in September 2021, rendering selected cities in detailed 3D with elevation, trees, and custom landmarks.
Detasseling
Detasseling removes the tassel from female maize plants in hybrid seed corn fields to prevent self-pollination; done by hand or machine, with male sterility systems like CMS and Ms44-SPT as alternatives, costing about 14% seed yield when manual.
Detection Algorithms
Detection algorithms for object detection locate and classify objects in images via bounding boxes. Families: two-stage R-CNN series, one-stage YOLO/SSD, transformer-based DETR/RT-DETR; measured by mAP and FPS.
Detection and attribution
Detection and attribution (D&A) is the climate science framework for showing whether observed climate change exceeds natural variability and how much is caused by greenhouse gases.
Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project
The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP) is a CMIP6 climate model project separating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar activity, and volcanism.