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Detonation
Detonation is the propagation of a reaction through an explosive medium at a speed greater than sound, driven by a shock wave, distinguishing it from deflagration.
Detonation velocity
Detonation velocity, abbreviated VoD or D, is the speed at which a detonation front travels through an explosive material, one of the principal measures of explosive performance.
Detonator
A detonator, also called a blasting cap, is a small explosive device used to initiate detonation in a larger explosive, invented by Alfred Nobel in 1863.
Detour (1945 film)
Detour (1945) is an Edgar G. Ulmer film noir made at Poverty Row studio PRC, starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. A hitchhiking pianist assumes a dead man's identity; a National Film Registry classic restored in 2018.
Detour (Cyndi Lauper album)
Detour is the 11th studio album by Cyndi Lauper, released in 2016. It features 12 classic country covers and duets with artists like Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson.
Detour (Kim Petras album)
Detour is Kim Petras' third studio album, released May 29, 2026 on her own BunHead Records after a Republic Records dispute; 13 tracks including SOPHIE's final collaboration "Basketball", with a Rare N' Deluxe edition in September 2026.
Detour Lake
Detour Lake is a large open-pit gold mine in Cochrane District, northeastern Ontario, near the Quebec border. Operated by Agnico Eagle, it is the largest gold-producing mine in Canada.
Detox (One Ok Rock album)
Detox (DETOX) is ONE OK ROCK's 11th studio album (February 21, 2025, Fueled By Ramen), released alongside the band's 20th anniversary; features C.U.R.I.O.S.I.T.Y. with CHICO CARLITO and Paledusk; promoted by the DETOX world tour.
Detoxification
Detoxification, also called biotransformation, is the set of metabolic reactions by which the body chemically alters foreign compounds such as drugs, reducing toxicity and easing excretion.
Detoxification foot baths
Detoxification foot baths, also called ionic foot baths or foot detox, are pseudoscientific devices claimed to pull toxins through the feet; studies, including a 2012 IonCleanse trial, find no detox effect, and water color change comes from electrode corrosion.
Detoxification of Reactive Oxygen Species
Detoxification of Reactive Oxygen Species (Reactome R-HSA-3299685) is a curated human pathway in which superoxide dismutases, catalase, peroxiredoxins, and glutathione peroxidases convert superoxide and hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen.
DETR
DETR (DEtection TRansformer) is an object detection model introduced in May 2020 by Facebook AI researchers, treating detection as direct set prediction via a transformer encoder-decoder trained end-to-end.
DETRAN
A DETRAN (Departamento Estadual de Trânsito, State Traffic Department) is the state traffic authority in each Brazilian state, responsible for driver licensing and vehicle registration.
Detransition
Detransition: stopping or reversing a gender transition, medical or social. Reported rates range from about 1% surgical regret to 0-9.8% after hormones; definitions and measurement vary widely.
Detrended correspondence analysis
Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) is an ordination method used in ecology and archaeology, introduced by Hill and Gauch in 1980 to fix distortions in correspondence analysis.
Detrended fluctuation analysis
Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a statistical method that detects long-range correlations in nonstationary time series, introduced by C.-K. Peng and colleagues in 1994 to analyze DNA sequences.
Detrital zircon geochronology
Detrital zircon geochronology measures uranium-lead ages of individual zircon grains separated from sedimentary rocks, identifying sediment sources, correlating successions, and limiting the age of deposition.
Detritivore
Detritivores are invertebrates such as earthworms, termites, and millipedes that feed on dead organic matter or its microbes, raising decomposition rates by about 50% on average and anchoring brown food webs.
Detritus
Detritus is dead organic matter (leaf litter, carrion, faeces, exudates) forming the brown, detrital food web; most primary production, over 80% on land, passes through it, and it acts as both resource and habitat.
Detroit
Detroit, the largest city in Michigan, was founded by the French in 1701 and grew into the heart of the American automotive industry as the Motor City.
Detroit (film)
Detroit is a 2017 American historical drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, dramatizing the 1967 Detroit riot and the Algiers Motel killings.
Detroit 562
Detroit 562 (CVCL_1171, ATCC CCL-138) is a human pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma cell line from a female patient's metastatic pleural effusion; HPV-negative, TP53 R175H and PIK3CA H1047R mutant, widely used HNSCC model.
Detroit 6
Detroit 6 (Det-6, CVCL_2436) is a human cancer cell line described in 1956 as sternal marrow from a male lung carcinoma patient but shown by Gartler and later work to be a HeLa derivative carrying HPV18.
Detroit bankruptcy
The Detroit bankruptcy was a Chapter 9 filing on July 18, 2013, the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history, with about $18 billion in debt.
Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball
Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball, also called Detroit Bridgerton Ball, was an unofficial Uncle & Me LLC fan event at the Harmonie Club on September 22, 2024, where $150-$1,000 tickets bought raw food, a lone violinist and a pole dancer instead of the advertised Regency ball, prompting scam complaints and refund demands.
Detroit Dam
Detroit Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the North Santiam River about 45 miles east of Salem, Oregon, built by the Army Corps of Engineers between 1949 and 1953.
Detroit Diesel
Detroit Diesel is an American manufacturer of heavy-duty diesel engines for trucks, based in Detroit, Michigan, and owned by Daimler Truck North America since 2000.
Detroit Diesel Series 53
The Detroit Diesel Series 53 is a family of two-stroke diesel engines with 53 cubic inches per cylinder, launched by Detroit Diesel in 1957 for on-highway trucks.
Detroit Diesel Series 71
The Detroit Diesel Series 71 is a family of two-cycle diesel engines with 71 cubic inches per cylinder, introduced by General Motors in 1938 and produced for over half a century.
Detroit Diesel Series 92
The Detroit Diesel Series 92 is a family of two-stroke V-configuration diesel engines produced by Detroit Diesel from 1974, whose 6V-92TA dominated US transit buses.