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Duván Zapata
Duván Zapata, Colombian centre-forward born 1991 in Cali, Torino captain; first Colombian with 100 Serie A goals; peaked at Atalanta with 23 league goals in 2018-19; returned from an October 2024 ACL rupture.
Düvaz
Düvaz, also known as düvaz-ı imam, is a genre of Alevi-Bektashi religious poetry naming the Twelve Imams in order and praising their virtues, recited in the cem ritual.
Duvdevan Unit (דובדבן)
Duvdevan Unit (דובדבן, Unit 217), IDF undercover counterterrorism unit founded by Ehud Barak in June 1986; disguised arrests and raids in the West Bank; named in the UN Abu Akleh investigation and Commando Brigade since 2015.
Duvelisib
Duvelisib (brand name Copiktra) is an oral inhibitor of the PI3K delta and gamma enzymes, approved in the United States in 2018 for relapsed or refractory CLL/SLL and follicular lymphoma.
Duverger's law
Duverger's law: Maurice Duverger's 1951 proposition that single-member plurality (first-past-the-post) elections favor two-party systems, via mechanical and psychological effects, while proportional representation favors multipartyism.
Duvernay Formation
The Duvernay Formation is an organic-rich Upper Devonian shale in Alberta that is both a major oil and gas source rock and an unconventional reservoir.
Duvet
A duvet, also called a continental quilt, is a soft-filled fabric bag laid over a sleeper, usually inside a washable cover, in place of sheets and blankets.
Duvet (Bôa song)
"Duvet" is a 1998 song by British alt-rock band bôa, also known as the opening theme of Serial Experiments Lain; written by Jasmine Rodgers, it surpassed 1 billion streams after a TikTok revival and reunited the band.
Duvha power station
Duvha power station, the Venda word for the sun, is a coal-fired base-load plant in Emalahleni, South Africa, owned by Eskom and built between 1975 and 1984.
Duvidha (दुविधा)
Duvidha (दुविधा) is a 1973 Hindi film by Mani Kaul, adapted from Vijaydan Detha's Rajasthani folktale, about a ghost who takes a bride's husband's form during his five-year absence; it won the 1974 National Film Award for Best Direction and was remade as Paheli (2005).
Duvvada Srinivas (దువ్వాడ శ్రీనివాస్)
Duvvada Srinivas (దువ్వాడ శ్రీనివాస్), also Srinivas Duvvada, is a YSRCP MLC from Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, elected by MLAs; defeated in Tekkali 2009, 2014, 2024 and Srikakulam Lok Sabha 2019, with 11 declared criminal cases and a 2025 YSRCP suspension.
Duwa
Duwa (篤哇) was a Chagatai rebel prince of the Yuan era who allied with Hai Dou against the Yuan court, was wounded by an arrow in 1301, and died in 1306.
Duwamish (fireboat)
The Duwamish is a retired Seattle Fire Department fireboat, launched in 1909 and in service about 75 years before her 1984 retirement, now a museum ship in Seattle.
Dux
Dux (plural duces), Latin 'leader', was a Roman military title, formalized under Diocletian as frontier command, and the root of duke, duchy, doge, and Mussolini's title duce.
Duxford Aerodrome
Duxford Aerodrome, also known as RAF Duxford, is a historic airfield near Cambridge built by the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and now the site of Imperial War Museum Duxford.
Duy Tan
Duy Tan (Duy Tân), born Nguyen Phuc Vinh San, was emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty from 1907 to 1916, deposed for joining an anti-French uprising.
Duyên Hải Thermal Power Station
Duyên Hải Thermal Power Station, also called Duyen Hai Power Center, is a three-plant coal-fired complex in Trà Vinh province, Vietnam, with about 4,200 MW supplying southern Vietnam.
Duyfken
The Duyfken, a Dutch East India Company vessel, became the first European ship known to sight and chart Australia, mapping Cape York in 1606 under Willem Janszoon.
Duyfken Rupes
Duyfken Rupes is a 518-km-wide rupes (lobate scarp) on Mercury at about 21°S, 132°W, IAU-approved in 2013 and named after Willem Janszoon's ship Duyfken, which sighted Australia in 1606.
Duyun
Duyun (都匀) is a county-level city in Guizhou, China, seat of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. About 349,000 urban residents (2020), 65.88% urbanized, it is the planned regional central city of southern Guizhou.
Duyun power station
Duyun power station, also called Guodian Duyun power station, is a coal-fired power plant in Fuquan, Guizhou, China, with two supercritical units totaling about 1,200 MW.
Düzce, Düzce
Düzce, Düzce: the city and province in northwestern Türkiye, Türkiye's 81st province since December 1999, on the North Anatolian Fault, struck by the 1999 Mw 7.2 earthquake, with an EU-funded sustainable mobility plan (2023–2025).
DV Trading (proprietary trading firm)
DV Trading is a proprietary trading firm founded in Toronto in 2006 by Dino Verbrugge, now headquartered in Chicago and trading futures, options, equities, and cryptocurrency.
dV-Trainer
The dV-Trainer is a virtual reality robotic surgery simulator developed by Mimic Technologies of Seattle that emulates the da Vinci Surgeon's Console, first installed at Indiana University in 2007.
DV01
DV01, also called dollar duration or PV01, is the dollar change in a bond's or swap's value for a one-basis-point change in yield, the standard unit traders use to hedge rate exposure.
Dvaita school
Dvaita school (द्वैत वेदान्त), also called Dvaita Vedanta or Tattvavada, is a dualist school of Vedanta founded by Madhvacharya at Udupi, Karnataka, in the late thirteenth century.
Dvaita Vedanta
Dvaita Vedanta, also called the Madhva sampradaya, is a dualist school of Vedanta founded by Madhvacharya in thirteenth-century Karnataka, holding an eternal difference between Vishnu and souls.
Dvalin Oil and Gas Field
Dvalin Oil and Gas Field is a gas field in the central Norwegian Sea, discovered in 2010, producing since November 2020 via a subsea tie-back to the Heidrun platform, operated by Harbour Energy Norge AS.
Dvapara Yuga (द्वापर युग)
Dvapara Yuga (द्वापर युग), also called Dwapar Yuga, is the third of the four world-ages in Hindu cosmology, preceding Kali Yuga and traditionally lasting 864,000 human years.
Dvārakā (द्वारका)
Dvārakā (द्वारका) is Krishna's legendary city of the Mahabharata and Puranas, said to have sunk into the sea, and the submerged archaeological site off Dwarka, Gujarat, where stone structures, anchors, and Late Harappan pottery have been found since the 1980s.