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Dixon Doll

Dixon Doll is an American venture capitalist who co-founded DCM Ventures in Menlo Park in 1996 with David Chao, later chairing the National Venture Capital Association.

Dixon Entrance

Dixon Entrance, also called the A-B Line strait, is the sea passage between southeast Alaska and Haida Gwaii, named for Captain George Dixon in 1788, site of the unresolved Canada-US maritime boundary dispute over the 1903 A-B Line.

Dixon MRI

Dixon MRI is a magnetic resonance imaging technique, reported by W. T. Dixon in 1984, that separates water and fat signals to produce fat-suppressed images and quantitative fat-fraction maps.

Dixon x Jimi Jules

Dixon x Jimi Jules (Dixon & Jimi Jules) is a back-to-back DJ collaboration between German DJ Dixon and Swiss DJ Jimi Jules, first billed at Coachella 2025.

Dixon's Q test

Dixon's Q test is a statistical test for detecting a single outlier in a small univariate sample, introduced by W. J. Dixon in 1950 and standard in analytical chemistry.

Dixville Notch, New Hampshire

Dixville Notch is an unincorporated community in Coös County, far northern New Hampshire, famous for casting the first presidential primary ballots at midnight since 1960.

DIY Drones

DIY Drones is an online community for amateur unmanned aerial vehicles, founded in May 2007 by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine, and became the birthplace of the open-source autopilot ArduPilot.

Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains

Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural Landscape of the Mandara Mountains (DGB), Cameroon World Heritage site inscribed 2025: sixteen dry-stone ruins, built 12th-17th centuries by unknown builders, used ritually by the Mafa people.

Diya (lamp)

A diya, also called Divaa, is a small earthen or metal oil lamp lit in Hindu worship, most familiarly in the rows of lamps at Diwali.

Diya (தியா) (film)

Diya (தியா), originally titled Karu, is a 2018 Indian Tamil-Telugu bilingual horror thriller directed by A. L. Vijay for Lyca Productions, starring Sai Pallavi and Naga Shourya; released 27 April 2018, Telugu version Kanam.

Diya al-Din Ibn al-Athir

Diya al-Din Ibn al-Athir (ضياء الدين بن الأثير), born in 1163, was an Arab chancery secretary who served as vizier of Damascus and wrote influential literary criticism.

Diya Aur Baati Hum

Diya Aur Baati Hum (दीया और बाती हम), Star Plus Hindi soap 2011–2016, Shashi Sumeet Productions; Sandhya's IPS dream aided by halwai husband Sooraj; dubbed Eetharam Illalu, En Kanavan En Thozhan; sequel Tu Sooraj Main Saanjh Piyaji.

Diya Kumari (दिया कुमारी)

Diya Kumari (दिया कुमारी), born 1971, is Rajasthan's Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister of the BJP, heir of the erstwhile Jaipur royal family, MP for Rajsamand 2019, MLA from Vidhyadhar Nagar since 2023.

Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi

Diya' al-Din al-Maqdisi (ضياء الدين المقدسي) was a Hanbali hadith scholar of Damascus, born in 1174 and died in 1245, who founded the Dar al-Hadith al-Ziya'iyya school.

Diyar Planitia

Diyar Planitia, a 325-km-wide ridged plain on Saturn's moon Enceladus, IAU-named in 1982 after a land in the Arabian Nights, formed by unstable lithospheric extension.

Diyar-e-Dil

Diyar-e-Dil (دیار دل) is a 2015 Pakistani Hum TV family drama serial, 33 episodes, written by Farhat Ishtiaq, directed by Haseeb Hassan, starring Abid Ali, Maya Ali, and Osman Khalid Butt; winner of 12 Hum Awards.

Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır (Amed, ancient Amida), a major city in southeastern Turkey on the Tigris, with 5.8 km basalt walls and Hevsel Gardens inscribed by UNESCO in 2015; population 1,852,356.

Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape

Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape (Diyarbakır Kalesi ve Hevsel Bahçeleri), UNESCO World Heritage Site in Türkiye since 2015: 5.8 km basalt city walls with 63 inscriptions, İçkale inner castle, and the Tigris-side Hevsel Gardens, inscribed under criterion (iv).

Diyarbakır Province

Diyarbakır Province (Diyarbakır ili), a province of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region on the Tigris, area about 15,168 km², 17 districts, population 1,833,684 (2024), ancient Amida, UNESCO-listed walls and Hevsel Gardens.

Diyatheh

Diyatheh (ad-Diyatheh) is a Roman fort and deserted village on the eastern slopes of Jabal al-Druze, Suwayda, Syria. Built around 300 as a quadriburgium, 72 by 60 metres, with an older Severan south-west tower and 102 village buildings.

Diyu (地狱)

Diyu (地狱) is the Chinese Buddhist hell realm, the lowest of six realms of rebirth, where the dead pass through ten courts of judgment before their next rebirth.

Dizi (笛子) (instrument)

Dizi (笛子), the Chinese transverse bamboo flute, also called di or hengdi; distinguished by the dimo membrane (mirliton) over an extra hole giving a bright buzzing tone; six finger holes, bangdi and qudi regional types, central to opera, sizhu, and modern Chinese orchestra.

Dizin (دیزین)

Dizin (دیزین) is Iran's largest ski resort, in the Alborz mountains about 70 km north of Tehran. Opened 1969, base 2,650 m to 3,600 m, FIS-recognized, December-to-May season, dry powder snow, grass skiing in summer.

Dizocilpine

Dizocilpine, also known as MK-801, is a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist developed by Merck in 1982; restricted medically, it is a standard research tool in schizophrenia studies.

Dizzee Rascal

Dizzee Rascal, real name Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 1985), is a British rapper from Bow, east London, a pioneer of grime whose 2003 debut Boy in Da Corner won the Mercury Prize; later pop hits, a 2022 assault conviction, and albums up to We Want Bass distinguish him.

Dizziness

Dizziness: impaired spatial orientation covering vertigo, light-headedness, and unsteadiness; 11% one-year U.S. prevalence, classified into acute, episodic, and chronic vestibular syndromes, evaluated with the HINTS bedside examination.

Dizziness or giddiness

Dizziness, or giddiness, is an imprecise symptom covering vertigo, disequilibrium, presyncope, and lightheadedness; modern diagnosis relies on timing, triggers, HINTS examination, and targeted testing rather than symptom description.

Dizzle

Dizzle is a 2019 roll-and-write dice-placement board game by Ralf zur Linde, published by Schmidt Spiele and a Spiel des Jahres Recommended title. 1-4 players, ages 8+, four difficulty levels, 13 dice, bombs, gems, and a solo mode.

Dizzy Dean

Dizzy Dean (Jay Hanna Dean, 1910–1974), American Hall of Fame pitcher for the Cardinals, Cubs, and Browns; won 30 games and the NL MVP in 1934, then became a famous broadcaster.

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie, born John Birks Gillespie (1917–1993), was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer who, with Charlie Parker, pioneered bebop in the 1940s and Afro-Cuban jazz.