Society and history

Dasein

Dasein (German: being-there, ordinary meaning "existence") is Heidegger's term in Being and Time (1927) for the entity humans are, defined by understanding of being, being-in-the-world, care, and temporality.

Dash

The dash (punctuation): en dash (–, U+2013) marks ranges; em dash (—, U+2014) marks breaks in thought; both distinct from the hyphen. Style guides disagree on spacing, and em dash frequency rose in AI-era text.

Dash0

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform founded in 2023 by Instana founder Mirko Novakovic and headquartered in New York City, charging by overall data volume.

Dasha Zhukova

Dasha Zhukova (Daria Zhukova) is a Russian-American art collector and philanthropist, co-founder of Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art with Roman Abramovich, trustee of the Met and LACMA, Garage Magazine founder, and 51% beneficiary of his $963m art collection.

Dashain (दशैं)

Dashain (दशैं), also called Vijaya Dashami or Bada'dashain, is Nepal's longest and most auspicious Hindu festival, honoring the goddess Durga over fifteen days in autumn, culminating in tika blessings.

Dasharatha (दशरथ)

Dasharatha (दशरथ), also called Dasarath, is the king of Ayodhya of the solar dynasty in the Hindu epic Ramayana, father of Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana, and Shatrughna.

Dasharatha Maurya (दशरथ मौर्य)

Dasharatha Maurya (दशरथ मौर्य), grandson of Ashoka per the Puranas, ruled the eastern Mauryan empire from Pataliputra around 232–224 BCE. Known from the Nagarjuni hill cave inscriptions dedicating caves to the Ajivikas, the only later Maurya to issue inscriptions.

Dashavaikalika

Dashavaikalika (Daśavaikālika-sūtra; Prakrit Dasaveyāliya) is one of the four Mulasutras of the Svetambara Jain canon, a short Prakrit manual of ascetic conduct attributed to Śayyambhava and traditionally dated to 379 BCE.

Dashavatara

The Dashavatara, or Dasavataram, is the set of ten principal avatars of Vishnu who descend to restore cosmic order, from Matsya the fish to the future Kalki.

Dasheng Bureau (Imperial Music Bureau)

The Dasheng Bureau (大晟府) was the Song dynasty bureau created under Emperor Huizong to compose and promulgate the court's new ceremonial music, separating music from ritual administration.

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett, born Samuel Dashiell Hammett, was an American writer credited as the founder of hard-boiled detective fiction, author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.

Dashrath Manjhi (दशरथ मांझी)

Dashrath Manjhi (दशरथ मांझी), the "Mountain Man", was a Musahar labourer from Gehlaur, Gaya, Bihar, who spent 22 years (1960–1982) carving a 110 m road through a hill with hammer and chisel after his wife Falguni Devi died lacking timely medical care, cutting Atri–Wazirganj distance from 55 km to 15 km; died 17 August 2007.

Dashun Regime

The Dashun Regime (大顺政权) was the short-lived state founded by rebel leader Li Zicheng during the Ming collapse, holding the Yellow River basin in 1644.

Dastak

The dastak (دستک) was a trade permit issued under Mughal emperor Farrukh Siyar's 1717 farman, letting the English East India Company trade in Bengal duty-free; its abuse by private traders provoked conflict with Bengal's nawabs.

Dâstân ve Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân

Dâstân ve Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân covers Ahmedî's verse chronicle of the Ottoman kings, appended to his İskendernâme around 1405-1410 and regarded as the oldest surviving Ottoman historical text.

Dastangoi

Dastangoi (داستانگوئی) is the classical art of Urdu oral storytelling, in which one or two seated narrators recite epic Dastans of adventure and magic using only voice, language, and gesture.

Dastur al-Muluk

Dastur al-Muluk (دستور الملوک) is a Persian manual of administration from the end of the Safavid period, composed by Mirza Rafia, accountant-general at Isfahan, around 1722 to 1726.

Dasuo maoyue (census verification campaign)

Dasuo maoyue (大索貌阅) was a census verification campaign of China's Sui dynasty in which local governments checked each inhabitant's face and apparent age against the household register.

Dasuo maoyue and shuji dingyang

Dasuo maoyue and shuji dingyang (大索貌阅与输籍定样) were two linked household-registration policies of China's Sui dynasty, ordered by Emperor Wen in 585 to expose tax evaders.

Dasvand

Dasvand (ਦਸਵੰਧ), literally a tenth part, is the Sikh religious requirement to contribute one-tenth of one's income to the needy or community, instituted by Guru Arjan Dev and collected through the masands.

data Artisans

data Artisans was a Berlin-based startup founded in 2014 by the creators of Apache Flink to commercialize the open-source streaming engine, acquired by Alibaba in January 2019 for a reported €90 million.

Data Collective

Data Collective (DCVC) is a San Francisco venture capital firm investing in big data and deep-tech startups, founded by Matthew Ocko and Zachary Bogue in 2012.

Sep 19, 2026

Data Conversion, Inc

Data Conversion, Inc (DCI) was a Massachusetts software-services company founded by Narendra Patni in 1972, converting paper documents to computer-readable data with keypunching done in India.

Data dredging

Data dredging, also called p-hacking or data fishing, is the practice of testing many variable relationships until a significant result appears, then reporting it without disclosure.

Data entry clerk

A data entry clerk, also called a data entry operator or data encoder, transfers information from source documents into digital systems, verifying entries and correcting errors.

Sep 19, 2026

Data General Corporation

Data General Corporation was an American minicomputer manufacturer founded in 1968 by former Digital Equipment Corporation engineers, best known for its Nova line and acquired by EMC in 1999.

Data Point Capital

Data Point Capital is a Boston, Massachusetts-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Shoebuy.com founder Scott Savitz, investing in revenue-stage consumer internet, cloud enterprise software, and Internet of Things companies.

Sep 29, 2026

Data protection impact assessment

A data protection impact assessment (DPIA) is a structured process that assesses the risks of processing personal data, required under Article 35 of the GDPR.

Data Universal Numbering System

The Data Universal Numbering System, or D-U-N-S, is a system of nine-digit business identifiers assigned by Dun & Bradstreet since 1963 to identify and link business locations worldwide.