edgepedia

All articles A–Z

519,064 articles

Devender Yadav

Devender Yadav is an Indian National Congress politician who serves as President of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee and has represented Badli in the Delhi Legislative Assembly.

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart), born 1981 in Houston, is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter central to freak folk/New Weird America, from Oh Me Oh My on Young God to Flying Wig (2023) with Cate Le Bon.

Devendra Fadnavis (देवेंद्र गंगाधरराव फडणवीस)

Devendra Fadnavis (देवेंद्र गंगाधरराव फडणवीस), BJP leader born 1970, is Chief Minister of Maharashtra since December 2024, his third term, after serving as Deputy CM 2022–2024 and CM 2014–2019.

Devendra Lal

Devendra Lal (1929–2012) was an Indian nuclear physicist and geophysicist who founded the use of cosmic-ray-produced isotopes as tracers and clocks, working at TIFR, the Physical Research Laboratory, and Scripps.

Devendra Narain Singh

Devendra Narain Singh is an Indian geotechnical engineer and Institute Chair Professor at IIT Bombay, known for environmental geotechnology, laboratory instrumentation, and gas hydrate bearing sediments.

Devendra Pratap Singh (Chhattisgarh politician)

Devendra Pratap Singh is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh in February 2024, from the Gond royal family of Raigarh.

Devendra Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician)

Devendra Singh, also known as Bhole Singh, is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented the Akbarpur constituency in the Lok Sabha since 2014.

Devendra Yadav

Devendra Yadav, Indian National Congress MLA from Bhilai Nagar, Chhattisgarh, re-elected in 2023 and 2024 Bilaspur Lok Sabha runner-up; distinct from RJD leader Devendra Prasad Yadav of Jhanjharpur, Bihar.

Devendranāth Tagore

Devendranāth Tagore (1817–1905) was a Bengali religious reformer and philosopher, honored as Maharshi, who revived the Brahmo Samaj and was the father of poet Rabindranath Tagore.

Devens Gust

Devens Gust is an American chemist at Arizona State University who works in artificial photosynthesis, known for the Gust–Moore–Moore collaboration and landmark Nature papers in 1984 and 2002.

Devery Jacobs

Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) actor, writer, and director from Kahnawà:ke, Quebec; lead as Elora Danan on FX's Reservation Dogs (2021-23), wrote and directed on the show, series regular as Bonnie in Marvel's Echo, voice of Kahhori in What If...?, and 2024 Canadian Screen Awards Radius Award honoree.

Devesh Chandra Thakur

Devesh Chandra Thakur, born 1953, is an Indian Janata Dal (United) politician who has represented Sitamarhi, Bihar, in the Lok Sabha since winning the 2024 general election.

Devesh Shakya

Devesh Shakya, born in 1981, is an Indian Samajwadi Party politician who has represented the Etah constituency of Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

Devětsil

Devětsil was a Czech avant-garde association of artists, writers, architects, and theater practitioners, founded in Prague in 1920, best known for the artistic program Poetism under Karel Teige.

Devi (1960 film)

Devi (দেবী, The Goddess) is Satyajit Ray's 1960 Bengali drama, his sixth film, adapted from Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay's 1899 story: a landlord worships his daughter-in-law as the goddess Kali, with tragic results.

Devi (देवी)

Devi (देवी, devī) is the Sanskrit word for goddess and, in Śākta Hinduism, the Great Goddess herself, one of Hinduism's three most widely worshiped deities alongside Shiva and Vishnu.

Devi (தேவி) (2016 film)

Devi (தேவி), also Devi(L), Abhinetri, or Tutak Tutak Tutiya, is a 2016 Indian trilingual horror comedy directed by A. L. Vijay, starring Prabhu Deva, Tamannaah, and Sonu Sood, released 7 October 2016.

Devi 2

Devi 2 (தேவி 2) is a 2019 Tamil-Telugu horror comedy sequel to Devi, directed by A. L. Vijay, starring Prabhu Deva and Tamannaah; Krishna is possessed by two spirits, and the film released May 31, 2019 to poor reviews.

Devi Chaudhurani

Devi Chaudhurani (দেবী চৌধুরাণী) is an 1884 Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in which the outcast Brahmin woman Prafulla becomes a bandit leader fighting British rule in Bengal.

Devi Mahatmya

The Devi Mahatmya, also called Durga Saptashati, is a 700-mantra Sanskrit scripture in praise of the Goddess, composed in the fifth or sixth century CE.

Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury

Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhury (1899–1975) was an Indian sculptor and art educator known for the Triumph of Labour at Marina Beach, Chennai, and the Dandi March sculpture in New Delhi.

Devi Shetty (ದೇವಿ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ)

Devi Prasad Shetty (ದೇವಿ ಪ್ರಸಾದ್ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ), born 1953, Indian cardiac surgeon, founder-chairman of Narayana Health; performed India's first neonatal heart surgery, treated Mother Teresa, pioneered Yeshasvini micro-insurance and sub-$2,000 open-heart surgery.

Devi Sri Prasad

Devi Sri Prasad (దేవి శ్రీ ప్రసాద్), aka DSP or Rockstar DSP, born 1979 in Vedurupaka, is a Telugu-Tamil film composer, singer, and lyricist; National Film Award winner for Pushpa's songs, distinct from director Devi Prasad and cardiologist Devi Prasad Shetty.

Devi Sridhar

Devi Sridhar is an American global public health researcher, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and founding director of its Global Health Governance Programme, widely known during COVID-19.

Deviance (sociology)

Deviance in sociology is the violation of social norms, folkways, mores, or law (Sumner); unlike crime, it depends on social reaction. Main theories: Durkheim's functionalism, Merton's strain, conflict theory, and Becker's labeling theory.

Deviance information criterion

The Deviance Information Criterion (DIC), developed by David J. Spiegelhalter and colleagues, is a Bayesian model selection criterion that compares candidate models using deviance plus a parameter penalty.

Deviant (comics)

Deviants (Homo descendus) is a fictional race of humanoids in Marvel Comics that features wildly varying physical characteristics across generations, first published by Jack Kirby in The Eternals (1976).

DeviantArt

DeviantArt (dA), founded August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, and Angelo Sotira, is an online art-sharing community that began as a skins site, was acquired by Wix in 2017 for $36 million, hosts over 650 million artworks, and launched the DreamUp AI generator in 2022.

Deviation (statistics)

In statistics, a deviation, also known as a statistical deviation, is the difference between an observation and a central value such as the mean or median, and deviations underlie measures like variance and standard deviation.

Deviatoric stress

Deviatoric stress is the part of a stress tensor left after the hydrostatic part is subtracted; it changes a material element's shape while hydrostatic stress changes volume.