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Diesel fuel
Diesel fuel, also called petrodiesel or diesel oil, is distillate fuel oil sold for compression-ignition engines, where fuel self-ignites in hot compressed air without a spark plug.
Diesel generator
A diesel generator, also called a genset or generating set, couples a diesel engine to an electrical alternator, providing standby power for hospitals and prime power on isolated grids.
Diesel La Torraca
Diesel La Torraca (born 2011, Australia) is an Australian child actor known as Austin Miller in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia, Felix in Little Monsters, Isaiah in La Brea, and roles in Lambs of God and Unsung Hero.
Diesel locomotive
A diesel locomotive is a railway locomotive powered by a diesel engine, most often as a diesel-electric whose generator feeds traction motors geared to the axles.
Diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit, or DMU, is a self-propelled passenger train with on-board diesel engines, used on lines where full electrification is not financially feasible.
Diesel particulate filter
A diesel particulate filter, or DPF, is an exhaust device that traps soot from diesel engines in a ceramic honeycomb, cutting particulate matter by over 85 percent.
Diesel–electric powertrain
A diesel–electric powertrain, also known as a diesel–electric transmission, is a propulsion system in which a diesel engine drives a generator and electric motors turn the wheels.
Dieselpunk
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic science fiction and visual art genre blending the technology, aesthetics, and politics of the interwar and World War II era with speculative elements.
Diet
Diet (nutrition): habitual food and beverage intake patterns. WHO principles (adequacy, balance, moderation, diversity), quantitative limits on sugars, fat, salt; US Dietary Guidelines since 1980, 2025-2030 edition with inverted pyramid.
Diet (assembly)
Diet (assembly): formal name for a legislative assembly, from Low Latin diaeta. Applies to the Holy Roman Empire's imperial Diet, German Landtage, and Japan's National Diet, a bicameral legislature established in 1889.
Diet Coke
Diet Coke (Coca-Cola Light in some markets) is The Coca-Cola Company's sugar-free, calorie-free cola, launched July 8, 1982 as the first Coca-Cola trademark extension, sweetened with aspartame and distinct in taste from Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.
Diet in Hinduism
Diet in Hinduism covers food rules varying by tradition, caste, and region: lacto-vegetarianism favored, beef taboo (72% say beef eaters cannot be Hindu), 44% of Indian Hindus vegetarian, Ekadashi fasting, and Dharmaśāstra abhakṣya rules.
Diet in Sikhism
Diet in Sikhism is the set of food practices followed by Sikhs, prohibiting kutha meat and alcohol and centering communal life on the free vegetarian langar meal.
Diet of Augsburg
Diet of Augsburg (1530), imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire summoned by Charles V to Augsburg, where the Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana) was presented on 25 June 1530; also produced the Bucer-Capito Confessio Tetrapolitana.
Diet of Hungary
The Diet of Hungary (Magyar Országgyűlés) was the national assembly of estates of the Kingdom of Hungary, emerging in the thirteenth century and holding exclusive rights of taxation and soldier recruitment.
Diet of Porvoo
The Diet of Porvoo (Боргоский сейм) was the assembly of Finland's four estates convened by Alexander I at Porvoo in 1809, after Russia conquered Finland from Sweden.
Diet of Pressburg (1687)
The Diet of Pressburg (1687) was the Hungarian assembly at Pressburg (Pozsony, today Bratislava) convened by Leopold I, which accepted hereditary Habsburg succession and crowned his son Joseph.
Diet of Pressburg and the 1608 laws
The Diet of Pressburg and the 1608 laws (1608. évi pozsonyi országgyűlés törvényei) are Hungarian statutes of 1608 confirming religious freedom and crowning Matthias II king.
Diet of Torda
The Diet of Torda (Hungarian: tordai országgyűlés) refers to sixteenth-century sessions of the Transylvanian Diet at Torda, today Turda, Romania, most famously the January 1568 assembly.
Diet of Worms
Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms), imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire held January–May 1521 under Charles V, where Martin Luther refused to recant (17–18 April), leading to the Edict of Worms declaring him an outlaw.
Diet Pepsi (song)
"Diet Pepsi" is a 2024 synth-pop single by Addison Rae, her debut Columbia release, produced in Stockholm by Luka Kloser and Elvira Anderfjärd; it hit UK No. 10, debuted at Hot 100 No. 86, and led her album Addison.
Diet Records
Diet records, also called food diaries, are self-report tools recording all foods and drinks consumed over specified days in real time, weighed or estimated, used in nutrition research and known for under-reporting and reactivity.
Diet Therapy
Diet therapy: adjusting food intake quantity and quality to improve health, indexed as MeSH D004035 and delivered as medical nutrition therapy by registered dietitian nutritionists for diabetes, obesity, hypertension, kidney disease, and IBD.
Dietary diversity score
A dietary diversity score (DDS) counts the number of food groups a person or household ate over 24 hours, used as a simple proxy for diet quality.
Dietary fiber
Dietary fiber, also called bulk or roughage, is the nondigestible carbohydrate and lignin in plant foods. Key facts: FDA 2016 definition, 14 g per 1,000 kcal recommendation, soluble versus insoluble types, lower all-cause and CVD mortality.
Dietary iron overload disease
Dietary iron overload disease (African iron overload, Bantu siderosis): sub-Saharan iron overload from iron-rich home-brewed beer acting with a non-HFE genetic factor, causing hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma risk.
Dietary Reference Intake
Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are NASEM nutrient reference values (RDA, AI, EAR, UL, CDRR, AMDR) for healthy people in the US and Canada, jointly funded since the mid-1990s and used for labeling, guidelines, and assessment.
Dietary supplement
Dietary supplement: product taken by mouth containing dietary ingredients (vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, probiotics), regulated as food under DSHEA 1994; no FDA premarket approval, 57.6% of US adults use them.
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
DSHEA (Public Law 103-417, October 25, 1994) is the US law defining dietary supplements as a food category under FDA oversight, with no premarket approval, structure/function claims with a disclaimer, and new dietary ingredient notification.
Dieter Arend
Dieter Arend (Dietrich Kurt Julius Arend, 1914-1987), German rowing coxswain of Ruderklub am Wannsee; won Olympic gold in the men's coxed pair at Berlin 1936 with Adamski and Gustmann, and German titles in 1936, 1943, and 1944.