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Dialogue (Bakhtin)
Dialogue (Bakhtin), or dialogism, is Mikhail Bakhtin's concept that every utterance responds to past discourse and anticipates an answer, developed with Voloshinov's 1929 Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, linked to heteroglossia and polyphony, and distinct from everyday conversation.
Dialogue between a Man and His God
The Dialogue between a Man and His God is an Old Babylonian Akkadian poem of sixty-nine lines in which a suffering man complains to his god and is healed.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) is Galileo's 1632 book defending the Copernican system, published in Florence.
Dialogue of Pessimism
The Dialogue of Pessimism is an Akkadian dialogue in which a master and his slave debate a series of actions, with the slave endorsing each and its renunciation.
Dialogue state tracking
Dialogue state tracking (DST) is the task in task-oriented dialogue systems of estimating the user's goal each turn as (slot, value) pairs that guide the system's next action.
Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a Côte d'Ivoire body created in 2011 to foster reconciliation after the post-election crisis that killed at least 3,000 people.
Dialysis
Dialysis is a medical procedure that removes waste products and excess water from the blood when the kidneys fail, mainly by hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
Diamagnetism
Diamagnetism is a weak magnetic response in which a material develops a magnetization opposite to an applied magnetic field, giving a negative susceptibility present in all matter.
Diamanda Galás
Diamanda Galás (born 1955, San Diego) is an American avant-garde vocalist, pianist, and composer; debut The Litanies of Satan (1982), AIDS trilogy Masque of the Red Death, Plague Mass, multiphonic extended vocal technique, Intravenal Sound Operations label.
Diamane
Diamane is a two-dimensional diamond-like carbon film in which bilayer graphene is converted to an sp³-bonded lattice by chemical treatment or pressure, with candidate uses in quantum devices and photonics.
Diamant
Diamant, French for diamond, was France's first satellite launch vehicle, flown from 1965 to 1975; its debut launch carried the Astérix satellite and made France the third space power.
Diamant Hysenaj
Diamant Hysenaj is an American Republican politician and real estate developer, the 2026 GOP nominee for the U.S. House in New York's 14th District against incumbent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Diamantina
Diamantina is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, about 290 km north of Belo Horizonte, founded as the colonial diamond-mining settlement of Tijuco, with a UNESCO-listed historic center.
Diamantina National Park
Diamantina National Park, a 507,000-hectare former cattle station gazetted in 1992 in Queensland's Channel Country, protects Diamantina River wetlands, Maiawali homelands, and threatened bilbies, kowaris, and night parrots.
Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Diamantina is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, built on the colonial diamond-mining settlement of Arraial do Tijuco, whose historic center became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc.
DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc. is a Minneapolis-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for severe ischemic disease, with lead drug candidate DM199 in acute ischemic stroke and preeclampsia.
Diamer-Bhasha Dam
The Diamer-Bhasha Dam is an under-construction gravity dam on the Indus River in northern Pakistan, designed to store 8.1 MAF of water and generate 4,500 MW.
Diameter
Diameter is the greatest distance between any two points of a set; in a circle it is a chord through the center and equals twice the radius.
Diametral pitch
Diametral pitch (DP) is a measure of gear tooth size in inch units, defined as the number of teeth divided by the pitch diameter in inches.
Diamictite
Diamictite is a lithified, poorly sorted siliciclastic sedimentary rock with a wide clast size range and no fixed origin; its widespread deposits record ancient glaciations such as the Cryogenian Snowball Earth episodes.
Diamidophosphate
Diamidophosphate (DAP), or phosphorodiamidic acid, is a water-soluble phosphorus-nitrogen compound, first prepared in 1894 and prominent in origins-of-life research as a prebiotic phosphorylating agent.
Diamine derivatization reactions
Diamine derivatization reactions convert molecules bearing two amine groups into amides, ureas, imines, carbamates, or protected derivatives, with the central problem being whether one or both nitrogens react.
Diamines as chelating ligands
Diamines such as ethylenediamine act as chelating ligands, binding a metal ion through both nitrogen atoms to form a five-membered ring, the basis of the chelate effect.
Diaminopimelic acid
Diaminopimelic acid, or DAP, is an amino acid found in bacterial cell walls, where it cross-links peptidoglycan, and in lysine biosynthesis, making it an antibiotic target.
Diammonium phosphate
Diammonium phosphate, also called diammonium hydrogen phosphate, is the white crystalline salt (NH4)2HPO4, one of the most common phosphorus fertilizers with grade 18-46-0, also used as a wildland fire retardant.
Diamond
Diamond is a mineral of crystallized elemental carbon, prized as a gemstone and used industrially; it forms deep in the mantle and is the hardest known natural material.
Diamond (2026 film)
Diamond (2026) is Andy Garcia's neo-noir crime drama, also called a contemporary noir homage, in which Garcia writes, directs, produces, and stars as anachronistic LA private detective Joe Diamond; it premiered Out of Competition at Cannes 2026, runs 118 minutes, and stars Vicky Krieps, Brendan Fraser, and Dustin Hoffman.
Diamond (gemstone)
Diamond is a gemstone cut from the mineral diamond, a pure form of carbon that is the hardest known natural material and the world's most popular gemstone.
Diamond and Silk
Diamond and Silk: conservative commentary duo of sisters Lynnette 'Diamond' Hardaway and Rochelle 'Silk' Richardson, North Carolina pro-Trump activists of the 2016 campaign, later Fox Nation and Newsmax hosts; Hardaway died January 8, 2023, of heart disease.
Diamond anvil cell
The diamond anvil cell, also known as the diamond vise, is a laboratory device that generates extreme static pressure by squeezing samples between two opposed diamond tips.