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Dvārakā Nāth Tāgore
Dvārakā Nāth Tāgore (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর; 1794–1846), known as Prince Dwarkanath, was a Bengali zamindar and entrepreneur of Calcutta who founded Carr, Tagore & Company in 1834 and was the grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore.
Dvārakānāth Ṭhākur
Dvārakānāth Ṭhākur (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর), known in English as Dwarkanath Tagore, was a Calcutta merchant and philanthropist who co-founded the Brahmo Sabha and founded Carr, Tagore & Co.
Dvārakānātha Ṭhākura
Dvārakānātha Ṭhākura (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর) is a name in nineteenth-century Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnavism; his dates, lineage, and writings remain undocumented, and the article surveys the Vaishnava milieu instead.
Dvaravati art
Dvaravati art is the Buddhist art of Mon communities in central Thailand from the 6th to 11th centuries, known for stone Buddhas and wheels of the law.
Dvaravati Buddha
The Dvaravati Buddha is a Buddha image type produced in central Thailand between the 6th and 11th centuries under the Mon-speaking Dvaravati culture, typically a standing figure holding both hands in the gesture of instruction.
DVB Project
DVB Project, Digital Video Broadcasting, industry consortium founded 1993 in Europe that designs open digital TV specifications standardized by ETSI; DVB-S, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-I standards used worldwide.
DVB-C
DVB-C (Digital Video Broadcasting – Cable) is a standard for digital television over cable networks, published by ETSI in 1994 and adopted worldwide except North America, where DOCSIS dominated.
DVB-H
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld) is a standard, published as ETSI EN 302 304 in November 2004, for broadcasting television, radio, and data to battery-powered handheld receivers.
DVB-NGH
DVB-NGH (Next Generation Handheld) is a physical-layer specification from the DVB Project for broadcasting to handheld and mobile terminals, approved in 2012 and published by ETSI in 2022.
DVB-RCS
DVB-RCS (Return Channel via Satellite) is a Digital Video Broadcasting standard that adds a two-way return channel to one-way satellite broadcasts, enabling IP traffic over VSAT.
DVB-S
DVB-S (Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite) is the 1994 standard for transmitting digital television by satellite, and the first transmission standard of the DVB Project.
DVB-S2
DVB-S2 (Digital Video Broadcasting - Second Generation Satellite) is an open satellite transmission standard ratified by ETSI in 2005, succeeding DVB-S and serving broadcasting, interactive services, and satellite news gathering.
DVB-S2X
DVB-S2X (Digital Video Broadcasting, Satellite, Second Generation eXtensions) is a 2014 set of optional extensions to DVB-S2, adding higher-order modulation, channel bonding, and very-low signal-to-noise operation.
DVB-SH
DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handhelds) is a mobile broadcast standard, published by ETSI in 2008, for delivering video to handheld devices over hybrid satellite and terrestrial networks.
DVB-T
DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial) is the ETSI standard for broadcasting digital television from terrestrial transmitters using OFDM, adopted in Spain and over 110 countries; its successor is DVB-T2.
DVB-T2
DVB-T2 (Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial) is a standard for digital terrestrial television, offering far more capacity than DVB-T and carrying Freeview HD since 2009.
DVC (data version control)
DVC (Data Version Control) is a free, open-source command-line tool that versions large datasets and machine learning models alongside code, announced in 2017 and stewarded by lakeFS since 2025.
DVD
DVD, an abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc, is an optical disc format introduced in 1995, holding 4.7 gigabytes per side and succeeding the CD as the dominant home-video medium.
DVD player
A DVD player is a device that reads digital video and audio from a DVD disc and plays it on a television, launched in Japan in 1996.
DVD region code
A DVD region code is a digital rights restriction dividing the world into numbered playback regions, preventing a licensed player from playing discs set for other regions.
DVD screensaver
The DVD screensaver, also known as the bouncing DVD logo, is an idle animation where the DVD Video logo bounces across the screen, changing color.
DVD-Video
DVD-Video (DVD-V) is the DVD application format for distributing movies on 120 mm optical discs, first played on players sold in Tokyo in November 1996.
Dvicio
Dvicio is a Spanish pop band of five members from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near Madrid, led by singer Andrés Ceballos, who broke out in 2014 with "Paraíso" and "Enamórate".
Dvipada
Dvipada (ద్విపద) is a Telugu couplet verse meter in which each line has three Indra feet and one Surya foot, used for both classical kavyas and folk songs.
Dvizh
Dvizh (движ) is Russian youth slang for a lively party, happening, or general buzz of activity, the defining party and concert slang of Russian-speaking cities in the 2010s.
DVL-aided inertial navigation
DVL-aided inertial navigation is the dominant navigation method for autonomous underwater vehicles: an inertial navigation system is continuously corrected with velocity measurements from a Doppler velocity log.
DVL2
DVL2 (dishevelled segment polarity protein 2, HGNC:3086, Gene ID 1856) is a human gene at 17p13.1 encoding a 736-aa cytoplasmic adaptor that transduces canonical and non-canonical Wnt signals from frizzled receptors; one of three DVL paralogs, ubiquitously expressed, GenCC Moderate.
DVNP family
DVNP family (dinoflagellate/viral nucleoproteins): small, basic, virus-derived DNA-binding proteins that replaced histones as the main genome-packaging proteins of dinoflagellates, acquired from Imitervirales giant viruses via horizontal gene transfer.
Dvorák (Mercurian crater)
Dvorák (Dvorak) is an 82-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 9.6°S, 11.9°W in quadrangle H-06, approved by the IAU in 1976 and named for the Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák.
Dvorak keyboard layout
The Dvorak keyboard layout, patented by August Dvorak and William Dealey in 1936, is an alternative to QWERTY placing common letters on the home row for faster typing.