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Digital light processing (3D printing)
Digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing is a vat photopolymerization method that cures an entire resin layer at once by projecting a patterned light image.
Digital Linear Tape
Digital Linear Tape (DLT) is a magnetic tape storage format using half-inch tape in a square cartridge, developed at Digital Equipment Corporation and introduced in 1984.
Digital literacy
Digital literacy, also known as internet literacy or digital skills, is the ability to use digital devices and networks to find, evaluate, and create information safely, first conceived by Paul Gilster in 1997.
Digital marketing
Digital marketing, also called E-marketing, is the use of websites, apps, social media, search engines, and email to promote and sell products and services, now the majority of marketing spend.
Digital Markets Act
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a 2022 European Union regulation imposing obligations and prohibitions on large online platforms designated as gatekeepers, with fines up to 10% of worldwide turnover.
Digital mechanical metamaterials
Digital mechanical metamaterials are architected materials whose mechanical behavior is organized into discrete digital states, so a structure of one material can encode, store, and compute information mechanically.
Digital media
Digital media, also called online media, are media whose content is encoded as binary values computers store and manipulate, unlike analog media on film, tape, or paper; most stored information has been digital since about 2002.
Digital microfluidics
Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a lab-on-chip technique that moves, merges, and splits picoliter to microliter droplets on electrode arrays, automating chemical and biological assays at small volumes.
Digital micromirror device
A digital micromirror device (DMD) is a MEMS chip of tiny tilting aluminum mirrors acting as pixels, invented at Texas Instruments, that powers DLP projection and digital cinema.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Public Law 105-304 (1998), implements the WIPO Copyright Treaty and WPPT; it bans DRM circumvention under Section 1201 and grants online service providers Section 512 takedown safe harbors.
Digital Mobile Radio
Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is an open digital radio standard for professional and business users, developed by ETSI and ratified in 2005, using two-slot TDMA in 12.5 kHz channels.
Digital native
Digital native: a person who grew up with digital technology and is familiar with it; coined by Marc Prensky in 2001 alongside "digital immigrant". Empirical research, including ICILS and PISA data, has repeatedly discredited the concept's claims about youth skills.
Digital Newcastle (music)
Digital is a nightclub at Times Square in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, opened in July 2005, converted from the Powerhouse club and nicknamed "The Fabric of the North".
Digital nomad
A digital nomad is a remote worker who earns a living online and travels regularly, usually working for employers or clients outside the countries where they stay.
Digital object identifier
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier for an object, commonly a scholarly publication or dataset, linking a stable name to maintained information about its current location.
Digital Operational Resilience Act
Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, is an EU financial-sector ICT resilience law, applicable 17 January 2025, covering ICT risk, incident reporting, testing, and third-party oversight.
Digital painting
Digital painting is the creation of paintings on a computer using drawing software, a graphics tablet, and a pressure-sensitive stylus instead of brushes, pigments, and canvas.
Digital PCR
Digital PCR (dPCR) is a nucleic acid quantification method that splits a PCR reaction into many partitions and counts target molecules absolutely, without a calibration curve.
Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) is India's general statute for processing digital personal data, enacted in August 2023 and enforced by a Data Protection Board of India.
Digital phase-locked loop
A digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) is a digitally implemented phase-locked loop in which a numerically controlled oscillator tracks a received signal's phase and frequency for carrier and clock recovery.
Digital photogrammetry
Digital photogrammetry is a measurement technique that derives 3D coordinates and surface models from overlapping digital photographs, producing point clouds, elevation models, and orthomosaics for mapping and engineering.
Digital photography
Digital photography captures images with electronic sensors storing light as pixel data instead of film. Key facts: CCD invented 1969 at Bell Labs, Kodak's 1975 Sasson prototype, 1.4 trillion photos taken in 2023, 92% on smartphones.
Digital physics
Digital physics, also called computational universe theory or digital ontology, is the hypothesis that space, time, and all physical quantities are discrete and the universe is a computation.
Digital Playground
Digital Playground: American adult film studio founded 1993 by Joone (Ali Davoudian) in California; known for big-budget features like Pirates (2005), contract stars, and Aylo (ex-MindGeek) ownership since 2012.
Digital printing
Digital printing, also called electronic printing, prints a digital file directly onto paper or other media without a printing plate, making short runs and variable content economical.
Digital quantum simulation
Digital quantum simulation (DQS) is a computational method that uses a programmable quantum computer to reproduce a quantum system's time evolution as a sequence of discrete quantum gates.
Digital Radio Mondiale
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) is an open digital radio standard designed to replace analog AM and FM broadcasts on the same frequencies, first published as an ETSI specification in 2001.
Digital radiography
Digital radiography (DR) is a medical imaging method that captures X-ray images with electronic detectors instead of screen-film cassettes, producing digital radiographs that can be processed, stored, and displayed electronically.
Digital Realty
Digital Realty is an American real estate investment trust headquartered in Austin, Texas, that develops and operates data centers, with more than 300 facilities in over 30 countries serving 5,000 customers.
Digital Realty Dc Partners Na Fund-A
Digital Realty DC Partners NA Fund-A is a Delaware private fund formed in 2024 by Digital Realty Trust to own and develop hyperscale data centers in the United States.