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Dictator (2016 film)
Dictator is a 2016 Telugu action drama, Balakrishna's 99th film, directed by Sriwass with Anjali and Sonal Chauhan, music by S. Thaman, released 14 January 2016 by Eros International.
Dictator game
The dictator game is a behavioral economics experiment in which one player unilaterally splits an endowment with a recipient who cannot reject it, indexing altruism.
Dictator novel
The dictator novel, also called the dictatorship novel, is a subgenre of Latin American historical fiction portraying dictators or dictatorship, beginning with Amalia in 1851 and peaking in the 1970s.
Dictatorship
Dictatorship: rule by a person or group unaccountable through free competition; from the Roman emergency magistracy (85 dictators, ~500–202 BCE) to modern personalist, party-based, and military autocracies sustained by legitimation, repression, and co-optation.
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Dictatorship of the proletariat: Marxist concept of the transitional workers' state between capitalism and communism, formulated by Marx in the Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875), modeled on the Paris Commune, developed by Lenin, contested by Kautsky, and retained in China's constitution as the people's democratic dictatorship.
Dictionary
Dictionary: a reference work listing words with meanings, forms, and usage, arranged alphabetically (Arabic mu'jam). Covers types, entry structure, Arabic and OED historical lexicography, digital and AI-era change, and the shrinking dictionary business.
Dictionary attack
A dictionary attack is a password-guessing method that hashes each candidate from a list of likely passwords, such as breached ones, and compares them against captured hashes.
Dictionary learning
Dictionary learning is a machine learning method that learns basis elements, called atoms, so each signal can be represented sparsely as a combination of a few atoms.
Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB, Oxford DNB), the British national biographical reference: first edition 1885–1900 in 63 volumes edited by Leslie Stephen; 2004 Oxford edition with 64,533 biographies.
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a scholarly reference work with more than 5,000 biographies of deceased scientists and mathematicians, published in New York from 1970 to 1980.
Dictionary of the Khazars
The Dictionary of the Khazars, Hazarski rečnik, is a 1984 novel by the Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, written as a dictionary of the Khazar people.
Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com is a free, advertising-supported online English dictionary launched in 1995 by Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary and serving over 40 million users monthly.
Dictionnaire Infernal
Dictionnaire Infernal, by Jacques Collin de Plancy, is a French A–Z encyclopedia of demonology, magic, and superstition first published in 1818; its 1863 sixth edition added 800 articles and Louis Le Breton's 72 demon portraits, the source of most modern demon images.
Dictyocaulus
Dictyocaulus, lungworm genus of ungulates (D. viviparus cattle, D. filaria sheep, D. arnfieldi equids); direct life cycle, causes husk, controlled by irradiated-larva vaccine and anthelmintics.
Dictyoclostus
Dictyoclostus is an extinct productid brachiopod genus named by Muir-Wood (1930), type species Anomites semireticulatus Martin, 1809; large reticulate, spined shells from Devonian to Permian marine rocks.
Dictyonema
Dictyonema, established in 1822, is a genus of lichen-forming basidiomycete fungi in the family Hygrophoraceae, best known for blue-green, bracket-like or filamentous thalli in tropical forests. The same name belongs to an extinct Paleozoic graptolite genus.
Dictyonema clade
The Dictyonema clade is a lineage of lichenized basidiomycete fungi and the largest group of basidiolichens, with hundreds of mostly Neotropical species in the genera Dictyonema, Cora, Corella, Cyphellostereum, and Acantholichen.
Dictyopharidae
Dictyopharidae, dictyopharid planthoppers, a family of Fulgoromorpha sap-feeding insects and sister group of Fulgoridae; about 740 species in 160 genera, worldwide except polar regions, often with elongated head processes.
Dictyostelid
Dictyostelids, or cellular slime molds and social amoebae (Dictyostelia), are Amoebozoa soil amoebae that aggregate under starvation into slugs and fruiting bodies via cAMP signaling; over 180 species, first described by Brefeld in 1869.
Dictyostelium
Dictyostelium is a genus of social amoebae that live in soil and, when starved, aggregate into multicellular fruiting bodies; its species D. discoideum is a major model organism.
Dictyostelium discoideum
Dictyostelium discoideum, the social amoeba or cellular slime mold described by Raper in 1935, aggregates by cAMP chemotaxis into a fruiting body upon starvation; a haploid model organism for chemotaxis, development, and biomedical research.
Dicyandiamide
Dicyandiamide (DCD), also called cyanoguanidine, is a white crystalline compound made by dimerizing cyanamide, used as a fertilizer nitrification inhibitor and a latent epoxy curing agent.
Dicyclic group
The dicyclic group Dic_n, also called the binary dihedral group, is a finite non-abelian group of order 4n defined by a presentation with generators a and b.
Dicyclohexylamine
Dicyclohexylamine (DCHA) is a colorless, fishy-smelling secondary aliphatic amine, C₁₂H₂₃N, with two cyclohexyl groups, used mainly as a chemical intermediate for vapor-phase corrosion inhibitors and rubber vulcanization accelerators.
Dicyclopentadiene
Dicyclopentadiene (DCPD), with formula C₁₀H₁₂, is a liquid petrochemical formed when cyclopentadiene dimerizes by a Diels-Alder reaction, used chiefly in unsaturated polyester resins and, by ring-opening metathesis polymerization, in tough molded polydicyclopentadiene parts.
Dicycloverine
Dicycloverine, also called dicyclomine (Bentyl, Merbentyl), is a synthetic antimuscarinic antispasmodic (ATC A03AA07) for gastrointestinal smooth muscle spasm, mainly IBS; effective versus placebo in one 1981 RCT but with anticholinergic side effects and contraindicated in infants under 6 months and nursing mothers.
Dicyemida
Dicyemida (Rhombozoa), formerly classed as Mesozoa, are tiny parasites of cephalopod kidneys with about 30-cell bodies, a reduced 67.5 Mb genome, and a disputed spiralian phylogeny.
Dicynodontia
Dicynodontia, dicynodonts, herbivorous beaked therapsid synapsids with paired tusks, lived about 270-201 Ma, dominated Permian-Triassic land herbivore faunas, survived the end-Permian extinction via Lystrosaurus, and went extinct in the Late Triassic.
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Did You Hear About the Morgans? is a 2009 Marc Lawrence romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker as a separated New York couple placed in witness protection in rural Wyoming after witnessing a murder; critics rated it poorly (Metascore 27, RT 12%).
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is the ninth studio album by Lana Del Rey, released in March 2023 through Polydor Records.