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Divine Light Mission
The Divine Light Mission (DLM) is an international religious organization founded in 1960 by Hans Ram Singh Rawat, dissolved and succeeded by Élan Vital in 1982.
Divine Liturgy (Θεία Λειτουργία)
The Divine Liturgy (Θεία Λειτουργία), also called the Holy Liturgy, is the Eucharistic service of the Byzantine rite, celebrated by Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians.
Divine Machine Division (Shenjiying)
The Divine Machine Division (神机营) was a Ming firearms camp, one of the Three Great Camps of the early Yongle era, drilled in volley fire with guns and cannon.
Divine Mukasa
Divine Tayon Mahogany Mukasa (born 2007, Newham) is an English midfielder/forward, ex-West Ham academy, Manchester City player since 2023, loans at Leicester and West Ham, England youth international.
Divine providence
Divine providence, or pronoia/providentia, is the theistic doctrine that God foresees, cares for, and governs creation toward his purposes; a tenet of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with meticulous, general, Molinist, and open-theist models.
Divine right of kings
Divine right of kings: early modern European doctrine that monarchs derive authority directly from God, answer to God alone, and cannot be judged by parliaments; championed by James I and Filmer, ended by the Glorious Revolution.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film) is a 2002 American comedy-drama directed by Callie Khouri, adapted from Rebecca Wells's novels, and grossed over $73 million worldwide.
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent is Lewis Capaldi's 2019 debut album (Vertigo/Capitol), titled from a lyric in the unreleased song Figure It Out. It topped the UK chart for ten weeks, was Britain's best-selling album of 2019 and 2020, and spawned Someone You Loved.
Diviners (zhenren)
The diviners, or zhenren (贞人), were Shang dynasty officials who charged oracle bones and signed the inscriptions; at their height some scholars say they checked royal power.
Diving
Diving: acrobatic water entry from 1–3 m springboard or 5–10 m platform, judged 0–10 and multiplied by degree of difficulty; Olympic since 1904, synchro since 2000, China dominant.
Diving (sport)
Diving (sport): competitive springboard and platform acrobatic diving into water, judged by World Aquatics rules. Key facts: 1 m/3 m boards, 5-10 m platforms, DD 1.2-4.1, seven judges, Olympic since 1904, China's Paris 2024 eight-gold sweep.
Diving at the 2026 Asian Games
Diving at the 2026 Asian Games was the diving competition of the 20th Asian Games, held at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre from 26 to 30 September 2026.
Diving bell
A diving bell is a rigid chamber lowered underwater carrying a pocket of breathing gas, used to transport divers between the surface and a work site under pressure.
Diving bell spider
Diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica), or water spider, the only spider living entirely underwater; Palearctic freshwaters; builds a silk diving bell filled with surface air that acts as an external lung; males larger than females.
Diving chamber
A diving chamber, also called a compression chamber, is a pressure vessel for human occupancy used for treating injured divers, surface decompression, saturation diving, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Diving in the Maldives
Diving in the Maldives: drift scuba diving across Indian Ocean atolls, with thila pinnacles, channels, manta rays and whale sharks. 30 m recreational depth limit, two monsoon seasons, water 26-30°C, regulated by the Ministry of Tourism.
Diving into the Wreck
Diving into the Wreck is a 1973 poetry collection by Adrienne Rich, written in 1971 and 1972, whose title poem follows a lone diver down to a shipwreck.
Diving medicine
Diving medicine is the medical field dealing with the effects of pressure and immersion on the body, covering decompression sickness, barotrauma, and assessing whether a person is fit to dive.
Diving reflex
Diving reflex (mammalian diving response, diving bradycardia): apnea, bradycardia, and peripheral vasoconstriction triggered by facial water immersion, found in all vertebrates studied; human heart rate falls with a 10.4 s time constant, down to 6 beats/min in extremes.
Divinity
Divinity is the quality or nature of being divine, from the personal God of theism, unlimited in knowledge and power, to impersonal ultimates such as Brahman and the Dao.
Divinity (upcoming video game)
Divinity is Larian Studios' upcoming turn-based RPG, announced 12 December 2025 at The Game Awards 2025. Set in Rivellon, it is a new game, not Original Sin 3, with a new ruleset, co-op, and no release date yet.
Divinity Engine
The Divinity Engine is the game engine and editor toolset Larian Studios ships with its Divinity: Original Sin role-playing games, letting owners build levels and publish mods.
Divinity II
Divinity II (Ego Draconis) is Larian Studios' 2009 action RPG in the Divinity series, later re-released as The Dragon Knight Saga and Developer's Cut; Metascore 72, dragon-morphing mechanic.
Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin is Larian Studios' 2014 Kickstarter-funded, classless turn-based co-op RPG set in Rivellon, a prequel to Divine Divinity; its 2015 Enhanced Edition added full voice-over, split-screen, and console releases.
Divinity: Original Sin II
Divinity: Original Sin II (DOS2) is Larian Studios' 2017 turn-based, classless CRPG in Rivellon, Kickstarter-funded at $2,032,434, with six origin characters, elemental surface combat, and four-player co-op; predecessor to Baldur's Gate 3.
Divino Niño
Divino Niño is a Colombian-born psychedelic pop band based in Chicago, led by Bogotá childhood friends Camilo Medina and Javier Forero and known for bilingual songwriting.
Divinópolis
Divinópolis is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, a regional hub known for its clothing and steel industries, with 231,091 residents recorded at the 2022 census.
Divinyl ether
Divinyl ether (vinyl ether, divinyl oxide) is a volatile ether used as an inhalational anesthetic in the 1930s and now mainly as a monomer in polymer chemistry.
Divinylbenzene
Divinylbenzene (DVB) is an aromatic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₁₀, with two vinyl groups on a benzene ring, used as a cross-linking monomer in ion exchange resins and chromatography media.
Divinyls
Divinyls were an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1980 by Chrissy Amphlett and Mark McEntee, best known for the hit "I Touch Myself".