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Dig (2026 TV series)

Dig (DIG) is a 2026 Peacock comedy series created by Amy Poehler and Mike Schur, adapted from Kate Myers' novel Excavations; four women archaeologists in Greece uncover a conspiracy-tied artifact. Ten episodes premiere November 23, 2026, starring Poehler, Hugh Laurie, Viswanathan, Thomas, and Strazza.

DIG Airgas

DIG Airgas (디아이지에어가스) is a South Korean industrial gas company founded in 1979, headquartered in Seoul, and was South Korea's third-largest industrial gas producer before its 2026 acquisition by Air Liquide.

Dig Dug

Dig Dug (ディッグ・ダッグ) is Namco's 1982 arcade maze game, released by Atari in the USA, where the player inflates Pookas and Fygars with an air pump or crushes them with falling rocks.

Dig It (manga)

Dig It (ディグイット) is a seinen volleyball manga by Yoshidamaru, serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon since 2025. It follows Gaku Shishitani, son of a former national-team ace, who becomes a libero to surpass his father and the prodigy Noboru; four volumes, 450,000 copies, no anime.

Dig Out Your Soul

Dig Out Your Soul is the seventh and final studio album by English rock band Oasis, released 6 October 2008 on Big Brother Recordings, produced by Dave Sardy, recorded at Abbey Road, a UK number one that sold over one million copies before the band's 2009 split.

Digable Planets

Digable Planets: Brooklyn jazz rap trio of Butterfly (Ishmael Butler), Doodlebug (Craig Irving), and Ladybug Mecca (Mary Ann Vieira); Grammy-winning "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)"; albums Reachin' (1993) and Blowout Comb (1994).

Digallyne

Digallyne is the doubly reduced gallium(I) dimer anion [R–GaGa–R]²⁻, trans-bent and originally described with a gallium–gallium triple bond, though later studies find it closer to a single bond.

Digambar Kamat

Digambar Kamat is an Indian politician from Goa who served as chief minister from 2007 to 2012 and is now a BJP minister in the Goa government.

Digambara (दिगम्बर)

Digambara (दिगम्बर), meaning "sky-clad", is one of the two principal traditions of Jainism, alongside the Śvetāmbara, whose fully advanced male ascetics renounce all possessions, including clothing.

Digambara poets

The Digambara poets (Telugu: దిగంబర కవులు, Digambara Kavulu, literally "naked poets") were six Telugu poets who launched a radical protest poetry movement in 1965, writing raw free verse against social injustice.

Digamma

Digamma (Ϝ, ϝ; wau) is an archaic Greek letter for /w/, from Phoenician waw, lost early in most dialects but kept as the numeral 6 (stigma); ancestor of Latin F.

Digamma function

The digamma function, written ψ(z) and also called the psi function, is the logarithmic derivative of the gamma function, first of the polygamma functions, with ψ(n+1) = Hn − γ.

Digangana Suryavanshi (दिगंगना सूर्यवंशी)

Digangana Suryavanshi (दिगंगना सूर्यवंशी), born 1997, is an Indian actress, author, and singer known for Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera, Bigg Boss 2015, and films FryDay, Hippi, and Seetimaarr.

Digantara

Digantara is a Bengaluru-based space technology startup founded by Anirudh Sharma, Rahul Rawat, and Tanveer Ahmed that builds space situational awareness and missile-tracking infrastructure, including its SCOT satellite launched in January 2025.

Digantara Industries

Digantara Industries is a Bengaluru-based space-technology startup founded in 2018. It raised $64.5 million and builds space surveillance and missile tracking systems for global defense customers.

Diganth Manchale

Diganth Manchale (ದಿಗಂತ್), known professionally as Diganth, is an Indian actor and former model who works in Kannada cinema, born in 1983 in Bengaluru and best known for Pancharangi (2010).

Digastric muscle

Digastric muscle (musculus digastricus), a two-bellied suprahyoid neck muscle joining mandible, hyoid, and temporal bone via an intermediate tendon. Dual innervation: anterior belly CN V3 mylohyoid nerve, posterior belly CN VII; depresses mandible, elevates hyoid.

Digby Johns McLaren

Digby Johns McLaren (1919–2004) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist who was among the first to argue that a meteorite impact caused a mass extinction.

Digby Tatham-Warter

Digby Tatham-Warter (1917–1993), British Parachute Regiment major who carried an umbrella at the Battle of Arnhem 1944, escaped captivity, and led 138 men to freedom in Operation Pegasus, earning the DSO.

Digdarshan

Digdarshan (দিগদর্শন), also rendered Digdarsan, was a Bengali-language monthly magazine published by the Baptist Mission Press at Serampore from April 1818, regarded as the first periodical in the Bengali language.

Digenea

Digenea: digenetic trematodes or flukes, a subclass of Trematoda with c.18,000 species, the largest group of internal metazoan parasites; split into Diplostomida and Plagiorchiida by 2003 rDNA phylogeny.

Digenite

Digenite is a copper sulfide mineral with formula Cu₉S₅ (Cu₁.₈S), an opaque blue to black ore mineral in primary and secondary copper deposits, named in 1844 and found at Sangerhausen, Germany, and Butte, Montana.

DiGeorge syndrome

DiGeorge syndrome, also called 22q11.2 deletion syndrome or velocardiofacial syndrome, is a genetic disorder from a deletion at chromosome 22q11.2 causing heart defects, immune deficiency, palatal anomalies, hypocalcemia, and psychosis risk.

Digest access authentication

Digest access authentication, also known as Digest authentication, is an HTTP challenge–response scheme, defined in RFC 2069 in 1997, that lets a client prove password knowledge without sending it in the clear.

Digestate processing

Digestate processing treats digestate, the wet residue left after anaerobic digestion, separating it into liquid and solid fractions and recovering nitrogen and phosphorus as fertilizers.

Digestif (Yellowjackets)

"Digestif" is the third episode of the second season of the American drama series Yellowjackets, released in April 2023 on Showtime and directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd.

Digestion

Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into absorbable nutrients in the GI tract, involving the mouth, stomach, small intestine, and accessory organs; differs between monogastric humans and pigs and ruminants like cattle.

Digestion and absorption

Digestion and absorption: the gastrointestinal processes that break food into monosaccharides, amino acids, and fatty acids and move them across the small-intestinal epithelium via paracellular and transcellular transport, and how maldigestion and malabsorption arise.

Digestive biscuit

Digestive biscuit: semi-sweet British wheatmeal biscuit created by Alexander Grant at McVitie & Price in 1892 (1839 origin also claimed), named for baking soda once believed to aid digestion; chocolate version, nutrition, and comparative taste tests.

Digestive diseases

Digestive Diseases (Dig Dis) is a peer-reviewed gastroenterology journal published by S. Karger, Basel; founded 1983 as Survey of Digestive Diseases, ISSN 0257-2753, indexed in MEDLINE, edited by Peter Malfertheiner.