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Dilruba (film)

Dilruba (దిలారుబా) is a 2025 Telugu romantic action drama, Viswa Karun's debut, starring Kiran Abbavaram and Rukshar Dhillon; released 14 March 2025, it flopped with ₹12.15 crore worldwide gross.

Dilshod Nazarov

Dilshod Nazarov (Дильшод Назаров), born 1982 in Dushanbe, is a Tajik hammer thrower and Rio 2016 Olympic champion, Tajikistan's first Olympic gold, also 2015 world silver and three-time Asian Games champion; banned two years in 2021 for turinabol.

Diltiazem

Diltiazem (Cardizem, Tiazac) is a benzothiazepine, nondihydropyridine calcium channel blocker synthesized in 1971 by Tanabe and FDA-approved in 1982, used for hypertension, angina, and atrial fibrillation rate control, contraindicated in HFrEF.

Dilun School

The Dilun School (地論宗) was a Buddhist scholarly movement of China's Northern dynasties, the first Chinese Yogācāra school, centered on the Shidi jing lun treatise.

Dilute acid pretreatment

Dilute acid pretreatment is a biomass pretreatment method that heats lignocellulosic material with dilute sulfuric acid to hydrolyze hemicellulose, making cellulose accessible to enzymes for ethanol production.

Dilute ammonia pretreatment

Dilute ammonia pretreatment is a chemical pretreatment for lignocellulosic biomass in which dilute aqueous ammonia selectively removes lignin, increasing fermentable sugar release for ethanol production.

Dilute magnetic semiconductor

A dilute magnetic semiconductor (DMS) is a semiconductor doped with a few atomic percent of a magnetic transition metal, such as Mn in (Ga,Mn)As, which is ferromagnetic up to 190 K.

Dilution cloning

Dilution cloning, or limiting dilution cloning, is a cell biology technique that isolates single cells by serial dilution into microtiter plate wells and grows clonal cell lines from them.

Dilution method (antimicrobial susceptibility testing)

The dilution method in antimicrobial susceptibility testing exposes bacteria to serial twofold dilutions of an antibiotic to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration, the lowest level preventing visible growth.

Dilution of precision (navigation)

Dilution of precision (DOP), also called geometric dilution of precision, is a unitless satellite navigation measure of how satellite geometry amplifies ranging errors in position.

Dilution refrigerator

A dilution refrigerator is a cryogenic device that cools to around 10 millikelvin by circulating a helium-3 and helium-4 mixture, the workhorse for superconducting quantum processors and sub-Kelvin detectors.

Dilwale (2015 film)

Dilwale is a 2015 Hindi-language romantic action comedy directed by Rohit Shetty, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, released in December 2015 to divided reviews.

Dilwale (दिलवाले) (1994 film)

Dilwale (दिलवाले) is a 1994 Hindi action drama directed by Harry Baweja, starring Ajay Devgn as a man wrongly convicted of murder, alongside Suniel Shetty and Raveena Tandon.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे)

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ, दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे), The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride, is a 1995 Hindi romantic drama directed by Aditya Chopra, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, the longest-running film in Indian cinema, screened daily at Mumbai's Maratha Mandir for over 30 years.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे) (soundtrack)

DDLJ soundtrack (दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे): 1995 Hindi film album composed by Jatin-Lalit, lyrics Anand Bakshi, released 20 Oct 1995 on Saregama; seven songs including Tujhe Dekha To, sung by Lata Mangeshkar, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, and Asha Bhosle.

Dilwara Temples

Dilwara Temples (Delwara, Delvada): five Jain temples near Mount Abu, Rajasthan, built 1031–1582, famed for intricate white marble interiors, Māru-Gurjara style, Śvētāmbara Pancha Tirtha status.

Dilworth Wayne Woolley

Dilworth Wayne Woolley (1914–1966) was a Canadian-born American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1952, known for antimetabolites and the serotonin hypothesis of mental illness.

Dilworth's theorem

Dilworth's theorem is a 1950 result in order theory stating that a finite poset can be partitioned into chains, whose minimum number equals its largest antichain.

Dim sum (点心)

Dim sum (点心) is Cantonese small-dish cuisine of steamer-basket dumplings and buns eaten with tea during yum cha; born in Qing-era Guangzhou teahouses, now a Hong Kong cultural icon and listed intangible heritage.

Dim1 family

about 20 words: Dim1 family, or Dim1, is a conserved, thioredoxin-like protein family. It functions as a U5 snRNP component and 18S rRNA dimethyltransferase in essential eukaryotic cell functions.

Dima Bilan (Дима Билан)

Dima Bilan (Дима Билан), stage name of Viktor Belan, is a Russian pop singer born 1981 who placed second at Eurovision 2006 with "Never Let You Go" and won Eurovision 2008 in Belgrade with "Believe" (272 points).

Dima Qato

Dima Qato is an American pharmacoepidemiologist and Hygeia Centennial Chair at the University of Southern California, known for research on pharmacy deserts and how pharmacy closures affect medication adherence.

Dimam

Dimam (الضِّمام, al-dhimam) is the Arabic term for a binding grant of protection and safe conduct, a pre-Islamic Arabian institution that passed into Islamic law as the aman granted to the people of war.

DIMAN study

DIMAN (NCT02680327) is a prospective observational feasibility pilot at the Montreal Heart Institute testing recruitment and retention of elderly cardiac surgery patients for a multicenter audit of advance care planning practices and end-of-life communication satisfaction, using CANHELP questionnaires and 5-meter gait speed frailty assessment.

Dimapur (दीमापुर)

Dimapur (दीमापुर) is a city on the Dhansiri River in Nagaland, India, the state's largest city, commercial hub, and airport town, and the ancient capital of the Kachari kingdom.

Dimartino

Dimartino is the stage name of Antonio Di Martino, an Italian singer-songwriter from Palermo known for the duo Colapesce Dimartino and its 2021 hit "Musica leggerissima".

Dimas G. de Oteyza

Dimas G. de Oteyza is a nanoscale physicist at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, known for graphene nanoribbon synthesis and imaging covalent bonds in single-molecule reactions.

Dimcho Debelyanov

Dimcho Debelyanov (Димчо Дебелянов), born in Koprivshtitsa in 1887, was a Bulgarian symbolist poet known for tender elegies, killed in battle in 1916 at 29.

Dimdazenil

Dimdazenil (地达西尼, EVT201, Junoenil) is a benzodiazepine-class partial positive allosteric modulator of the GABAA receptor, approved by China's NMPA on 29 November 2023 for short-term insomnia treatment, the drug's first approval worldwide.

Dime (United States coin)

The dime is the United States 10-cent coin, worth one tenth of a dollar, first minted in 1796 and bearing Franklin D. Roosevelt's portrait since 1946.