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Duty solicitor In the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries, a duty solicitor (or, in Canada, a duty counsel) is a solicitor whose services are available to a person either suspected of, or charged with, a criminal offence free of charge (pro bono) if that person does not have access to a solicitor of their own.
Duty to rescue A duty to rescue is a concept in the law of torts that arises in a narrow number of cases, describing a circumstance in which a party can be held liable for failing to come to the rescue of another party in peril. In common law, there is no general duty to come to the rescue of another and a person cannot be prosecuted for doing nothing while another person is in peril.
Duty to retreat In the criminal law, the duty to retreat is a specific component which sometimes appears in the defence of self-defence, and which must be addressed if the defendant is to prove that his or her conduct was justified. In those jurisdictions where the requirement exists, the burden of proof is on the defence to show that the defendant was acting reasonably.
Duty to warn A duty to warn is a concept that arises in the law of torts in a number of circumstances, indicating that a party will be held liable for injuries caused to another, where the party had the opportunity to warn the other of a hazard and failed to do so.
DuTillet Matthew The DuTillet Matthew is a mediaeval manuscript containing a version of the Gospel of Matthew, written in the Hebrew language. The manuscript is named after its discoverer, Bishop Jean DuTillet of France, who found it on a visit to Rome in the 1550s.
Duumvirate A duumvirate is an alliance between two equally powerful political or military leaders. The term can also be used to describe a state with two different military leaders who both declare themselves to be the sole leader of the state.
Duval College Duval College is a residential college at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1959 as the second women's college at the University, Duval became co-residential in 1975.
Duval Street Duval Street is a famous downtown commercial zoned street in Key West, Florida, running north and south from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. Duval Street is the location of many famous restaurants and bars, including Sloppy Joe's, The Bull and Whistle, Rick's Cafe and Irish Kevins bar.
Duvalo Duvalo the sulphur find volcano is an active post-volcanic phenomenon situated close to the village of Kosel, near Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. Its appearance resembles a miniature crater with a diameter of 0.
Duvaucels Gecko Duvaucel's gecko (Hoplodactylus duvaucelli) is a gecko found only on predator-free offshore islands of New Zealand, including Great Barrier Island and a number of Cook Strait islands. Its total length is up to 300 mm (snout to vent up to 160 mm) weighing up to 120 grams, making it the largest living gecko in New Zealand.
Duvenhage virus Duvenhage virus is a member of the lyssavirus genus which also contains rabies virus. The virus was discovered in 1970 when a South African farmer (after whom the virus is named) died of a rabies-like encephalitic illness after being bitten by a bat Tignor, GH, Murphy, FA, Clark, HF et al.
Duver A duver (pronounced to rhyme with cover) is an Isle of Wight dialect term for an area of sand dunes. The name has become part of place names on the Isle of Wight, for example Dover Street in Ryde is the street which used to run down to the duver.
Duverger's law Duverger's law is a principle which asserts that a majority voting election system naturally leads to a two-party system. The discovery of this principle is attributed to Maurice Duverger, a French sociologist who observed the effect and recorded it in several papers published in the 1950s and 1960s.
Duvergerian equilibrium In his 1954 book, Political Parties, Maurice Duverger postulated a relationship between electoral regime and the number of political parties. In particular, he attempted to show that political parties in countries using the first past the post system tended to converge on two ideological poles, whereas countries using proportional representation tended to have several political parties forming coalition governments in the center.
Duvet A duvet (pronounced , from the French duvet "down") or doona is a type of bedding— a soft flat bag traditionally filled with down or feathers, or a combination of both and used on a bed as a blanket. Duvets originally came out of rural Europe and were made from the down feathers of the Eider duck, which is well known for its usefulness as an insulator.
DuVersity The DuVersity is an organisation founded on the idea of 'transformative education', combining ideas and methods from a number of fields to achieve the goal of developing human intelligence. Within this system, difference and diversity are of the highest importance -- multiple viewpoints and perspectives are encouraged in order that they be contrasted for a better understanding of reality.
Duwamish (fireboat) The Duwamish reigned as one of the most powerful fireboats in the United States several times over her 75-year working life. Built in 1909 in Seattle for the Seattle Fire Department, she was equipped with three American LaFrance steam piston pumps rated at a capacity of 3,000 gallons per minute (11,000Â lpm) each.
Duwamish (tribe) The Duwamish tribe is a Native American tribe in western Washington, and the indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle. The Duwamish tribe today includes the People of the Inside, for Elliott Bay environs today; and the People of the Large Lake, for those around Lake Washington of today.
Duwisib Castle Duwisib Castle, sometimes spelt Duwiseb or Duweseb, is a grand neo-baroque fortress in the hills of the semi-arid Southern Namib region of Namibia. It was built by 'Baron' Captain Heinrich von Wolf, who was posted to (then) German West Africa.
Duxford Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, some ten miles south of Cambridge. Duxford gives its name to RAF Duxford, a former Royal Air Force airfield that was used as a sector station during the Battle of Britain.
Duy Tan Emperor Duy Tân (ç¶ć–°), born in 1899, was one of only two Nguyá»…n Dynasty emperors to gain widespread respect and popularity in Vietnam. His name was Prince Nguyá»…n PhĂşc VÄ©nh San and was son of the ThĂ nh Thái Emperor.
Duygu Ulusoy Duygu Ulusoy (aka: Duygu GĂĽl Ulusoy), born on April 24, 1987 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, is a female Turkish skier competing in the alpine discipline. She represents Turkey at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Duzhe Duzhe () is a general interest magazine which includes original articles, condensed articles reprinted from other magazines, book excerpts, and collections of jokes, anecdotes, quotations and other short pieces. It is the most widely circulated magazine in the People's Republic of China, and is similar in style to Reader's Digest.
DUALabs DUALabs (National Data Use and Access Laboratories) was the name of an American company whose proprietary compression algorithm was used to compress the 1960 and 1970 census data under NSF grant 7249358 to the Center for Research Libraries. DUALabs also received funding for the project from the Ford Foundation and NICHD (Contract 72-2707).
DUATS DUATS, or Direct User Access Terminal Service is a weather information and flight plan processing service contracted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for use by United States civil pilots and other authorized users. DUAT Service is a telephone- and Internet-based system which allows the pilot to use a personal computer for access to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) database to obtain weather and aeronautical information and to file, amend, and cancel domestic IFR and VFR flight plans; and close domestic VFR flight plans.
DUB Magazine DUB magazine, founded in January 2000, is a magazine covering urban custom car culture and also features celebrities and their vehicles. The magazine also launched the DUB Magazine Custom Auto Show & Concert, a nationwide car show and concert tour that spans 16 United States cities.
DUF1220 DUF1220 is a protein domain found within a number of proteins including the protein produced by gene MGC8902 that is repeated more often in human DNA than in the other primate genomes. Its function is still unknown.
DUKPT In cryptography, Derived Unique Key Per Transaction (DUKPT) is a key management scheme in which for every transaction, a unique key is used which is derived from a fixed key. Therefore, if a derived key is compromised, future and past transaction data is still protected since the next or prior keys cannot be determined easily.
DUKW The DUKW (popularly pronounced DUCK) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was originally designed inside General Motors Corporation during World War II for transporting goods and troops over land and water and for use approaching and crossing beaches in amphibious attacks.
DUMBO, Brooklyn DUMBO (an acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass") is the popular name of a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It encompasses two sections; one located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another which continues east from the Manhattan Bridge and borders the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Vinegar Hill area, and the hotly contested mansions of Commodore's Row.
DUT1 The time correction DUT1 (sometimes also written DUT) is the difference between Universal Time (UT1), which is defined by Earth's rotation, and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is defined by a network of precision clocks.
DUX The DUX-53 and DUX-59 were submachine guns designed at the Oviedo Arsenal in Spain. They were based directly on the design of the Finnish 9mm Model 44 submachine gun, which in turn was based on the Soviet PPS-43.
Dvaita Dvaita (Devanagari:द्बŕĄŕ¤¤, Kannada:ದ್ವŕłŕ˛¤) (also known as Tattvavada and Bheda-vada), a school of Vedanta (the most widespread Hindu philosophy) founded by Madhvacharya, stresses a strict distinction between God (Vishnu) and the individual living beings (jivas). According to Madhvacharya, souls are not 'created' by God but do, nonetheless depend on him for their existence.
Dvals The Dvals were an old people in the Caucasus, their lands lying on both sides of the central Greater Caucasus mountains, somewhere between the Darial and Mamison gorges. This historic territory mostly covers today’s South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia and part of North Ossetia-Alania, Russian Federation, as well as some neighboring lands in Georgia’s historic regions of Racha and Khevi.
Dvandva A dvandva or copulative or coordinative compound refers to two or more objects that could be connected in sense by the conjunction 'and'. Dvandvas are common in some languages such as Sanskrit, where the term originates, as well as Chinese and Japanese, but less common in English (The term is not often found in English dictionaries.
Dvar Yerushalayim Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim, also called the Jerusalem Academy of Jewish Studies, is a yeshiva for baalei teshuva currently located in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. The yeshiva was founded in 1970 by Rabbi Baruch Horovitz, formerly of Manchester, England.
Dvd+rw-tools dvd+rw-tools (also known as growisofs, its main part) is a collection of open source computer programs that are popular DVD (and recently BluRay) burning tools for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and also Mac OS X 10.4.
Dvienadsat Apostolov (1890) The Dvienadsat Apostolov ( Двенадцать ĐпоŃтолов - twelve Apostles) was a Pre-Dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She served in the Black Sea Fleet and was built by Nikolayev Dockyard.
Dvin Dvin (; ) was a large commercial city, the capital of early medieval Armenia, the ruins of which are located in the province of Ararat nearby a town by the same name. The city was built by Chosroes III of Armenia in 335 on a site of an ancient settlement and fortress from the third millennium B.
Dvina Bay The Dvina Bay (Dvinskaya Guba in Russian) is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast Russia. It is one of four large bays and gulfs of the White Sea, the others being the Mezen Bay, the Onega Bay, and the Kandalaksha Gulf.
Dvinia Dvinia was a therapsid mammal-like "reptile" of the family Dviniidae found in Sokoli on the Dvina river near Archangelsk in Russia. Its fossil remains date from the Late Permian and were found with Inostrancevia, Scutosaurus and Dicynodon trautscholdi.
Dvinosauria Dvinosaurs are one of several new clades of Temnospondyl amphibians named in the phylogenetic review of the group by Yates and Warren 2000. They represent a group of primitive semi-aquatic to completely aquatic amphibians, and are known from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Triassic, being most common in the Permian period.
Dvorak encoding Dvorak encoding is a type of encoding based on the differences in layout of a QWERTY keyboard and a Dvorak keyboard. There are two main variations: One is achieved by typing in the Dvorak layout on a QWERTY keyboard, and the other is similarly achieved by typing in the QWERTY layout on a Dvorak keyboard.
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (pronounced ) is a keyboard layout patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak, a professor of Education at the University of Washington, and William Dealey as an alternative to the more common QWERTY layout.
Dvorak technique The Dvorak technique (developed in 1974 by Vernon Dvorak) is a widely used system to subjectively estimate tropical cyclone intensity based solely on visible and infrared satellite images. Several agencies issue Dvorak numbers for cyclones of sufficient intensity.
DV Digital Video (DV) is a digital video format launched in 1994, and, in its smaller tape form factor MiniDV, has since become a standard for home and semiprofessional video production; it is sometimes used for professional purposes as well, such as filmmaking and electronic news gathering. The DV specification (originally known as the Blue Book, current official name IEC 61834) defines both the codec and the tape format.
DVArchive DVArchive is a program which allows users of the ReplayTV Personal Video Recorder (PVR) to stream shows recorded on networked ReplayTV's to their PC for archiving and/or viewing. It can also stream archived video from the PC back to a ReplayTV to be watched there, allowing the PC to act as an expandable video library.
DVB DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
DVB-C DVB-C stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable. This system transmits an MPEG-2 family digital audio/video stream, using a QAM modulation with channel coding.
DVB-CPCM This is the Content Protection and Copy Management standard being developed by the DVB Project (main application is interoperable protection of European digital television, though other countries may also adopt the standard. In simplest form CPCM is a set of status "flags" sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not it can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content.
DVB-T DVB-T stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television. This system transmits a compressed digital audio/video stream, using OFDM modulation with concatenated channel coding (i.
DVBST DVBST was an acronym used by Tektronix to describe their line of "Direct-View Bistable Storage Tubes". These were cathode ray tubes (CRTs) that stored information written to them using an analog technique inherent in the CRT and based upon the secondary emission of electrons from the phosphor screen itself.
DVD DVD (commonly "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc") is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble compact discs as their diameter is the same (120 mm (4.
DVD Copy Control Association The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) is an organization primarily responsible for the copy prevention of DVDs. The Content Scramble System (CSS) was devised for this purpose to make copyright infringement difficult.
DVD Forum The DVD Forum is an international organization composed of hardware, software, media and content companies that use and develop the DVD and HD DVD formats. It was initially known as the DVD Consortium when it was founded in 1995.
DVD player A DVD player is a device for playing discs produced under the DVD Video standard. Most hardware DVD players have to be connected to a television set; there are also some small portable devices which have an LCD screen attached.
DVD Player (software) DVD Player (formerly Apple DVD Player) is the default DVD player in Mac OS X. It supports all the standard DVD features such as multiple audio, video & subtitle tracks as well as Dolby audio, DVD@ccess URLs and closed captions.
DVD recordable DVD recordable and DVD rewritable refer to DVD optical disc formats that can be recorded (written, "burned"), either [once|write once] or rewritable (write multiple times) format written by laser, as compared to DVD-ROM, which is mass-produced by pressing. DVD recordable is a general term that refers to both write-once and rewritable formats, whereas DVD rewritable refers only to rewritable formats.
DVD recorder A DVD recorder (or, colloquially, a DVD burner) is an optical disc recorder that records video onto blank writable DVD media. Such devices are available as either installable drives for computers or as standalone components for use in studios or home theater systems.
DVD region code Each DVD-Video disc contains one or more region codes, denoting the area[s] of the world in which distribution and playback are intended. The commercial DVD player specification dictates that a player must only play discs that contain its region code.
DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is a high-end software tool published by Apple Computer] to allow users to create [[DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into the DVD format without encoding to intermediary formats.
DVD Talk DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts founded in January 1999 when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market. The site was started by Geoffrey Kleinman with the purpose of creating an online resource to help people decide what to watch on DVD.
DVD Zune Ripper DVD to Zune Ripper is a Windows application that unprotect and copies DVDs to MPEG-4 or Window Media Player (WMV) format for playback on Microsoft Zune Player. It’s produced by Wondershare Software, Ltd, the direct vendor of multimedia video and audio solutions.
DVD-RAM DVD-RAM (DVD–Random Access Memory) is a disc specification presented in 1996 by the DVD Forum, which specifies rewritable DVD-RAM media and the appropriate DVD writers. DVD-RAM media have been used in computers as well as camcorders and personal video recorders since 1998.
DVD-Video DVD-Video is a professional and consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant form of consumer video formats in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder (e.
DVD+RW Alliance The DVD+RW Alliance is a group of electronic hardware, optical storage and software manufacturers who created and promote a format standard of recordable and rewritable DVDs, known as the "plus" format. As of 2004, plus format DVDs were available three forms: DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL.
DVD6C The DVD6C Licensing Agency or DVD6C Licensing Group DVD6C Licensing Agency web site, SAMSUNG joins DVD6C In Licensing DVD Patents, News, November 21, 2006. is an industry consortium which license a portfolio of patents required to produce DVD discs, players, drives, recorders, decoders, and encoders.
DVD±R DVD±R (also DVD+/-R, "DVD plus/dash R", or "DVD plus/minus R") is not a separate DVD format, but rather is a shorthand term for a DVD drive that can accept both of the common recordable DVD formats. Likewise, DVD±RW (also written as DVD±R/W, DVD±R/RW, DVD±R/±RW, DVD+/-RW and other arbitrary ways) handles both common rewritable disc types (but not usually DVD-RAM).
DVJ1000 The DVJ1000 is a digital turntable that is capable of playing back video data on DVDs, as well as CD-Audio, and MP3 audio on both CDs and DVDs. Created by Pioneer Electronics in 2006, it is the successor to the Pioneer DVJ-X1.
DVS Records DVS Records is a Dutch independent record label, specializing in progressive metal and related music. It was founded in 2000 by Rene Janssen, a Dutch enthusiast of progressive rock and metal, and also one of the organizers of the ProgPower festival.
Dwadasama In astrology, a dwadasama, which is also called a dwad, duad or dwadachamsha is 1/12th of a zodiacal sign. The dwadasama was developed by Hindu astrologers who broke the 30 degree sign down into 12 equal parts of 2.
Dwain Esper Dwain Esper (October 7, 1892—October 18, 1982) was a director and producer of exploitation films (some of which were written by Esper's wife, Hildegarde Stadie). He is considered to be one of the worst directors of all time, and his films have become cult classics for being so notoriously bad.
Dwain Messer Dwain Messer was raised in Olive Hill, Kentucky. He attended Morehead State University, and later became a Geography and Arts & Humanities teacher for West Carter High School in Olive Hill, spending his spare time writing songs and playing with his band.
Dwan Dwan is the name of Jessica Lange's character in the Dino De Laurentiis's 1976 production of King Kong. Soon after recovering from unconsciousness, Dwan – an actress – informs the crew of the oil tanker Petrox Explorer which has rescued her at sea that she created her own name by reversing the middle two letters of the name 'Dawn' for memorability's sake.
Dwang A Noggin (ENG) or Dwang (SCT,NZ) is a horizontal bracing piece used between wall studs or floor joists to give rigidity to the wall or floor frames of a building. Traditionally they are of timber but are now also a feature of steel or aluminium framing.
Dwaraka PÄ«tha The Dwaraka PÄ«tha or Dwaraka matha is situated in the coastal city of Dwaraka, Gujarat — which itself is a popular destination of pilgrimage for the Hindus, dedicated to Krishna. It is one of the four cardinal mathas said to have been founded by Adi Sankaracarya, and is the pascimÄmnÄya matha, or western matha.
Dwarf A dwarf is a short, stocky humanoid creature in Norse mythology as well as other Germanic mythologies, fairy tales, fantasy fiction and role-playing games. The plural of the word dwarf was historically spelled dwarfs, but fantasy author J.
Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, dwarves are a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for play as player characters. Most dwarves are renowned for their distrust of magic, and for their skill as axe-wielding warriors and blacksmiths, with the exception of their Underdark-dwelling cousins: the evil, psychic Duergar.
Dwarf (Warhammer) The Dwarfs are a race in Warhammer Fantasy, very much akin to the portrayal of dwarves in many other fantasy worlds, such as The Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons. Warhammer Dwarfs are highly driven by honour, and never forget a slight.
Dwarf Blue Sheep The Dwarf Blue Sheep or Dwarf Bharal Pseudois schaeferi is an endangered species of caprid found in China and Tibet. It inhabits low, arid, grassy slopes of the upper Yangtze gorge in Batang County of the Sichuan Province, and a small part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, where it is known by the local name Rong-na.
Dwarf Bobtail The Dwarf Bobtail (Sepiola rondeleti) is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, including the Strait of Sicily, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea. In the northeastern Atlantic, its natural range extends from the North Sea to Senegal.
Dwarf cichlid The dwarf cichlid is a group of freshwater fish of the cichlid family and includes many small species from South America and riverine West Africa, particularly those suitable for the planted aquarium. Most dwarf cichlids do not grow larger than 10 cm.
Dwarf codling The dwarf codling, Notophycis marginata, is a morid cod of the family Moridae, found in the southeast Pacific and the southwest Atlantic between latitudes 32°S and 61°S, and around New Zealand, and New South Wales and Tasmania in Australia, to depths of up to 1,200 m.
Dwarf corydoras The dwarf corydoras (Corydoras hastatus), dwarf catfish, tail spot pigmy catfish, or micro catfish is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Amazon River and Paraguay River basins in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Dwarf Cassowary The Dwarf Cassowary, Casuarius bennetti also known as Bennett's Cassowary and the Mooruk is the smallest of the three species of cassowaries. It is a large, up to 110cm tall, flightless bird with hard and stiff black plumage, a low triangular casque, pink cheek and red patches of skin on its blue neck.
Dwarf Furze Dwarf Furze (Ulex gallii), also known as Western Gorse, is an evergreen shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Scotland England, Wales, Ireland, France and north-western Spain. It is more common in the west and favours acid heathy soils and is frequently found in exposed maritime and montane environments.
Dwarf galaxy A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of up to several billion stars, a small number compared to our own Milky Way's 200-400 billion stars. The Large Magellanic Cloud, containing over 30 billion stars, is sometimes classified as a dwarf galaxy while others consider it a full-fledged galaxy going around the Milky Way galaxy.
Dwarf galaxy problem The dwarf galaxy problem is one that arises from numerical cosmological simulations that predict the evolution of the distribution of matter in the universe. Dark matter seems to cluster hierarchically and in ever increasing number counts for smaller and smaller sized halos.
Dwarf inanga The dwarf inanga, Galaxias gracilis, is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in 13 lakes near Dargaville in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the smallest member of the Galaxiidae family in New Zealand growing to a maximum length of only 8 cm, most adults measuring only 4 cm.
Dwarf nova A dwarf nova (or novae) is a type of cataclysmic variable, consisting of a close binary star system in which one of the components is a white dwarf, which accretes matter from its companion. They are similar to classical novae in that the white dwarf is involved in periodic outbursts, but the mechanisms are different: classical novae result from the fusion and detonation of accreted hydrogen, while current theory suggests that dwarf novae result from instability in the accretion disk, when gas in the disk reaches a critical temperature that causes a change in viscosity, resulting in a collapse onto the white dwarf, releasing large amounts of gravitational potential energy.
Dwarf Olive Ibis The Dwarf Olive Ibis (Bostrychia bocagei) is a critically endangered bird that is edemic to SĂŁo TomĂ© e PrĂncipe. Once thought to be a subspecies of the larger Olive Ibis it is now classified as two distinct species.
Dwarf Oregon-grape Dwarf Oregon-grape (Mahonia nervosa, syn. Berberis nervosa), also called Cascade Oregon-grape, is a flowering plant native to the northwest coast of North America from southern British Columbia south to central California, with an isolated population inland in northern Idaho.
Dwarf planet The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the official scientific body for astronomical nomenclature, defines a "dwarf planet" as a celestial body that, within the Solar System,IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes
Dwarf Palmetto The Dwarf Palmetto (Sabal minor) is one of about 14 species of palmetto palm (Arecaceae, genus Sabal). It is native to the southeastern United States, ranging from Florida north to eastern North Carolina, and west to eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas.
Dwarf sawshark The dwarf sawshark, Pristiophorus sp.D, is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae, found in the west Indian Ocean from Mozambique and possibly Somalia, to the Arabian Sea off Pakistan, at depths of between 285 and 500 m.
Dwarf sheet spider The dwarf sheet spiders (family Hahniidae) are small spiders, their bodies are about 2 mm in length. They build extremely delicate webs in the form of a sheet, and unlike many spiders the web does not lead to a retreat.
Dwarf spheroidal galaxy Dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) is a term in astronomy applied to the nine low luminosity dwarf elliptical galaxies that are companions to the Milky Way and to the similar systems that are companions to the Andromeda Galaxy M31.
Dwarf spider droid The Dwarf spider droid is a ground vehicle manufactured by the Commerce Guild to support the cause of the Separatists. Also known as the '"burrowing spider droid"' because it was first used to destroy opposition in narrow mine shafts.
Dwarf spiral galaxy A dwarf spiral galaxy is the dwarf version of a spiral galaxy. Dwarf galaxies are characterized as having low luminosities, small diameters (less than 5 kpc), low surface brightnesses, and low hydrogen masses.
Dwarf Sperm Whale The Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) is one of three species of whale in the sperm whale family. They are not often sighted at sea and most of our understanding of the creatures comes from the study of washed-up specimens.
Duty to rescue A duty to rescue is a concept in the law of torts that arises in a narrow number of cases, describing a circumstance in which a party can be held liable for failing to come to the rescue of another party in peril. In common law, there is no general duty to come to the rescue of another and a person cannot be prosecuted for doing nothing while another person is in peril.
Duty to retreat In the criminal law, the duty to retreat is a specific component which sometimes appears in the defence of self-defence, and which must be addressed if the defendant is to prove that his or her conduct was justified. In those jurisdictions where the requirement exists, the burden of proof is on the defence to show that the defendant was acting reasonably.
Duty to warn A duty to warn is a concept that arises in the law of torts in a number of circumstances, indicating that a party will be held liable for injuries caused to another, where the party had the opportunity to warn the other of a hazard and failed to do so.
DuTillet Matthew The DuTillet Matthew is a mediaeval manuscript containing a version of the Gospel of Matthew, written in the Hebrew language. The manuscript is named after its discoverer, Bishop Jean DuTillet of France, who found it on a visit to Rome in the 1550s.
Duumvirate A duumvirate is an alliance between two equally powerful political or military leaders. The term can also be used to describe a state with two different military leaders who both declare themselves to be the sole leader of the state.
Duval College Duval College is a residential college at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1959 as the second women's college at the University, Duval became co-residential in 1975.
Duval Street Duval Street is a famous downtown commercial zoned street in Key West, Florida, running north and south from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. Duval Street is the location of many famous restaurants and bars, including Sloppy Joe's, The Bull and Whistle, Rick's Cafe and Irish Kevins bar.
Duvalo Duvalo the sulphur find volcano is an active post-volcanic phenomenon situated close to the village of Kosel, near Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. Its appearance resembles a miniature crater with a diameter of 0.
Duvaucels Gecko Duvaucel's gecko (Hoplodactylus duvaucelli) is a gecko found only on predator-free offshore islands of New Zealand, including Great Barrier Island and a number of Cook Strait islands. Its total length is up to 300 mm (snout to vent up to 160 mm) weighing up to 120 grams, making it the largest living gecko in New Zealand.
Duvenhage virus Duvenhage virus is a member of the lyssavirus genus which also contains rabies virus. The virus was discovered in 1970 when a South African farmer (after whom the virus is named) died of a rabies-like encephalitic illness after being bitten by a bat Tignor, GH, Murphy, FA, Clark, HF et al.
Duver A duver (pronounced to rhyme with cover) is an Isle of Wight dialect term for an area of sand dunes. The name has become part of place names on the Isle of Wight, for example Dover Street in Ryde is the street which used to run down to the duver.
Duverger's law Duverger's law is a principle which asserts that a majority voting election system naturally leads to a two-party system. The discovery of this principle is attributed to Maurice Duverger, a French sociologist who observed the effect and recorded it in several papers published in the 1950s and 1960s.
Duvergerian equilibrium In his 1954 book, Political Parties, Maurice Duverger postulated a relationship between electoral regime and the number of political parties. In particular, he attempted to show that political parties in countries using the first past the post system tended to converge on two ideological poles, whereas countries using proportional representation tended to have several political parties forming coalition governments in the center.
Duvet A duvet (pronounced , from the French duvet "down") or doona is a type of bedding— a soft flat bag traditionally filled with down or feathers, or a combination of both and used on a bed as a blanket. Duvets originally came out of rural Europe and were made from the down feathers of the Eider duck, which is well known for its usefulness as an insulator.
DuVersity The DuVersity is an organisation founded on the idea of 'transformative education', combining ideas and methods from a number of fields to achieve the goal of developing human intelligence. Within this system, difference and diversity are of the highest importance -- multiple viewpoints and perspectives are encouraged in order that they be contrasted for a better understanding of reality.
Duwamish (fireboat) The Duwamish reigned as one of the most powerful fireboats in the United States several times over her 75-year working life. Built in 1909 in Seattle for the Seattle Fire Department, she was equipped with three American LaFrance steam piston pumps rated at a capacity of 3,000 gallons per minute (11,000Â lpm) each.
Duwamish (tribe) The Duwamish tribe is a Native American tribe in western Washington, and the indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle. The Duwamish tribe today includes the People of the Inside, for Elliott Bay environs today; and the People of the Large Lake, for those around Lake Washington of today.
Duwisib Castle Duwisib Castle, sometimes spelt Duwiseb or Duweseb, is a grand neo-baroque fortress in the hills of the semi-arid Southern Namib region of Namibia. It was built by 'Baron' Captain Heinrich von Wolf, who was posted to (then) German West Africa.
Duxford Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, some ten miles south of Cambridge. Duxford gives its name to RAF Duxford, a former Royal Air Force airfield that was used as a sector station during the Battle of Britain.
Duy Tan Emperor Duy Tân (ç¶ć–°), born in 1899, was one of only two Nguyá»…n Dynasty emperors to gain widespread respect and popularity in Vietnam. His name was Prince Nguyá»…n PhĂşc VÄ©nh San and was son of the ThĂ nh Thái Emperor.
Duygu Ulusoy Duygu Ulusoy (aka: Duygu GĂĽl Ulusoy), born on April 24, 1987 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, is a female Turkish skier competing in the alpine discipline. She represents Turkey at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Duzhe Duzhe () is a general interest magazine which includes original articles, condensed articles reprinted from other magazines, book excerpts, and collections of jokes, anecdotes, quotations and other short pieces. It is the most widely circulated magazine in the People's Republic of China, and is similar in style to Reader's Digest.
DUALabs DUALabs (National Data Use and Access Laboratories) was the name of an American company whose proprietary compression algorithm was used to compress the 1960 and 1970 census data under NSF grant 7249358 to the Center for Research Libraries. DUALabs also received funding for the project from the Ford Foundation and NICHD (Contract 72-2707).
DUATS DUATS, or Direct User Access Terminal Service is a weather information and flight plan processing service contracted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for use by United States civil pilots and other authorized users. DUAT Service is a telephone- and Internet-based system which allows the pilot to use a personal computer for access to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) database to obtain weather and aeronautical information and to file, amend, and cancel domestic IFR and VFR flight plans; and close domestic VFR flight plans.
DUB Magazine DUB magazine, founded in January 2000, is a magazine covering urban custom car culture and also features celebrities and their vehicles. The magazine also launched the DUB Magazine Custom Auto Show & Concert, a nationwide car show and concert tour that spans 16 United States cities.
DUF1220 DUF1220 is a protein domain found within a number of proteins including the protein produced by gene MGC8902 that is repeated more often in human DNA than in the other primate genomes. Its function is still unknown.
DUKPT In cryptography, Derived Unique Key Per Transaction (DUKPT) is a key management scheme in which for every transaction, a unique key is used which is derived from a fixed key. Therefore, if a derived key is compromised, future and past transaction data is still protected since the next or prior keys cannot be determined easily.
DUKW The DUKW (popularly pronounced DUCK) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was originally designed inside General Motors Corporation during World War II for transporting goods and troops over land and water and for use approaching and crossing beaches in amphibious attacks.
DUMBO, Brooklyn DUMBO (an acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass") is the popular name of a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It encompasses two sections; one located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another which continues east from the Manhattan Bridge and borders the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Vinegar Hill area, and the hotly contested mansions of Commodore's Row.
DUT1 The time correction DUT1 (sometimes also written DUT) is the difference between Universal Time (UT1), which is defined by Earth's rotation, and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is defined by a network of precision clocks.
DUX The DUX-53 and DUX-59 were submachine guns designed at the Oviedo Arsenal in Spain. They were based directly on the design of the Finnish 9mm Model 44 submachine gun, which in turn was based on the Soviet PPS-43.
Dvaita Dvaita (Devanagari:द्बŕĄŕ¤¤, Kannada:ದ್ವŕłŕ˛¤) (also known as Tattvavada and Bheda-vada), a school of Vedanta (the most widespread Hindu philosophy) founded by Madhvacharya, stresses a strict distinction between God (Vishnu) and the individual living beings (jivas). According to Madhvacharya, souls are not 'created' by God but do, nonetheless depend on him for their existence.
Dvals The Dvals were an old people in the Caucasus, their lands lying on both sides of the central Greater Caucasus mountains, somewhere between the Darial and Mamison gorges. This historic territory mostly covers today’s South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia and part of North Ossetia-Alania, Russian Federation, as well as some neighboring lands in Georgia’s historic regions of Racha and Khevi.
Dvandva A dvandva or copulative or coordinative compound refers to two or more objects that could be connected in sense by the conjunction 'and'. Dvandvas are common in some languages such as Sanskrit, where the term originates, as well as Chinese and Japanese, but less common in English (The term is not often found in English dictionaries.
Dvar Yerushalayim Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim, also called the Jerusalem Academy of Jewish Studies, is a yeshiva for baalei teshuva currently located in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. The yeshiva was founded in 1970 by Rabbi Baruch Horovitz, formerly of Manchester, England.
Dvd+rw-tools dvd+rw-tools (also known as growisofs, its main part) is a collection of open source computer programs that are popular DVD (and recently BluRay) burning tools for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and also Mac OS X 10.4.
Dvienadsat Apostolov (1890) The Dvienadsat Apostolov ( Двенадцать ĐпоŃтолов - twelve Apostles) was a Pre-Dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She served in the Black Sea Fleet and was built by Nikolayev Dockyard.
Dvin Dvin (; ) was a large commercial city, the capital of early medieval Armenia, the ruins of which are located in the province of Ararat nearby a town by the same name. The city was built by Chosroes III of Armenia in 335 on a site of an ancient settlement and fortress from the third millennium B.
Dvina Bay The Dvina Bay (Dvinskaya Guba in Russian) is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast Russia. It is one of four large bays and gulfs of the White Sea, the others being the Mezen Bay, the Onega Bay, and the Kandalaksha Gulf.
Dvinia Dvinia was a therapsid mammal-like "reptile" of the family Dviniidae found in Sokoli on the Dvina river near Archangelsk in Russia. Its fossil remains date from the Late Permian and were found with Inostrancevia, Scutosaurus and Dicynodon trautscholdi.
Dvinosauria Dvinosaurs are one of several new clades of Temnospondyl amphibians named in the phylogenetic review of the group by Yates and Warren 2000. They represent a group of primitive semi-aquatic to completely aquatic amphibians, and are known from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Triassic, being most common in the Permian period.
Dvorak encoding Dvorak encoding is a type of encoding based on the differences in layout of a QWERTY keyboard and a Dvorak keyboard. There are two main variations: One is achieved by typing in the Dvorak layout on a QWERTY keyboard, and the other is similarly achieved by typing in the QWERTY layout on a Dvorak keyboard.
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (pronounced ) is a keyboard layout patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak, a professor of Education at the University of Washington, and William Dealey as an alternative to the more common QWERTY layout.
Dvorak technique The Dvorak technique (developed in 1974 by Vernon Dvorak) is a widely used system to subjectively estimate tropical cyclone intensity based solely on visible and infrared satellite images. Several agencies issue Dvorak numbers for cyclones of sufficient intensity.
DV Digital Video (DV) is a digital video format launched in 1994, and, in its smaller tape form factor MiniDV, has since become a standard for home and semiprofessional video production; it is sometimes used for professional purposes as well, such as filmmaking and electronic news gathering. The DV specification (originally known as the Blue Book, current official name IEC 61834) defines both the codec and the tape format.
DVArchive DVArchive is a program which allows users of the ReplayTV Personal Video Recorder (PVR) to stream shows recorded on networked ReplayTV's to their PC for archiving and/or viewing. It can also stream archived video from the PC back to a ReplayTV to be watched there, allowing the PC to act as an expandable video library.
DVB DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
DVB-C DVB-C stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital television over cable. This system transmits an MPEG-2 family digital audio/video stream, using a QAM modulation with channel coding.
DVB-CPCM This is the Content Protection and Copy Management standard being developed by the DVB Project (main application is interoperable protection of European digital television, though other countries may also adopt the standard. In simplest form CPCM is a set of status "flags" sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not it can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content.
DVB-T DVB-T stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television. This system transmits a compressed digital audio/video stream, using OFDM modulation with concatenated channel coding (i.
DVBST DVBST was an acronym used by Tektronix to describe their line of "Direct-View Bistable Storage Tubes". These were cathode ray tubes (CRTs) that stored information written to them using an analog technique inherent in the CRT and based upon the secondary emission of electrons from the phosphor screen itself.
DVD DVD (commonly "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc") is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble compact discs as their diameter is the same (120 mm (4.
DVD Copy Control Association The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) is an organization primarily responsible for the copy prevention of DVDs. The Content Scramble System (CSS) was devised for this purpose to make copyright infringement difficult.
DVD Forum The DVD Forum is an international organization composed of hardware, software, media and content companies that use and develop the DVD and HD DVD formats. It was initially known as the DVD Consortium when it was founded in 1995.
DVD player A DVD player is a device for playing discs produced under the DVD Video standard. Most hardware DVD players have to be connected to a television set; there are also some small portable devices which have an LCD screen attached.
DVD Player (software) DVD Player (formerly Apple DVD Player) is the default DVD player in Mac OS X. It supports all the standard DVD features such as multiple audio, video & subtitle tracks as well as Dolby audio, DVD@ccess URLs and closed captions.
DVD recordable DVD recordable and DVD rewritable refer to DVD optical disc formats that can be recorded (written, "burned"), either [once|write once] or rewritable (write multiple times) format written by laser, as compared to DVD-ROM, which is mass-produced by pressing. DVD recordable is a general term that refers to both write-once and rewritable formats, whereas DVD rewritable refers only to rewritable formats.
DVD recorder A DVD recorder (or, colloquially, a DVD burner) is an optical disc recorder that records video onto blank writable DVD media. Such devices are available as either installable drives for computers or as standalone components for use in studios or home theater systems.
DVD region code Each DVD-Video disc contains one or more region codes, denoting the area[s] of the world in which distribution and playback are intended. The commercial DVD player specification dictates that a player must only play discs that contain its region code.
DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is a high-end software tool published by Apple Computer] to allow users to create [[DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into the DVD format without encoding to intermediary formats.
DVD Talk DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts founded in January 1999 when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit the market. The site was started by Geoffrey Kleinman with the purpose of creating an online resource to help people decide what to watch on DVD.
DVD Zune Ripper DVD to Zune Ripper is a Windows application that unprotect and copies DVDs to MPEG-4 or Window Media Player (WMV) format for playback on Microsoft Zune Player. It’s produced by Wondershare Software, Ltd, the direct vendor of multimedia video and audio solutions.
DVD-RAM DVD-RAM (DVD–Random Access Memory) is a disc specification presented in 1996 by the DVD Forum, which specifies rewritable DVD-RAM media and the appropriate DVD writers. DVD-RAM media have been used in computers as well as camcorders and personal video recorders since 1998.
DVD-Video DVD-Video is a professional and consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is currently the dominant form of consumer video formats in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Discs using the DVD-Video specification require a DVD drive and an MPEG-2 decoder (e.
DVD+RW Alliance The DVD+RW Alliance is a group of electronic hardware, optical storage and software manufacturers who created and promote a format standard of recordable and rewritable DVDs, known as the "plus" format. As of 2004, plus format DVDs were available three forms: DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+R DL.
DVD6C The DVD6C Licensing Agency or DVD6C Licensing Group DVD6C Licensing Agency web site, SAMSUNG joins DVD6C In Licensing DVD Patents, News, November 21, 2006. is an industry consortium which license a portfolio of patents required to produce DVD discs, players, drives, recorders, decoders, and encoders.
DVD±R DVD±R (also DVD+/-R, "DVD plus/dash R", or "DVD plus/minus R") is not a separate DVD format, but rather is a shorthand term for a DVD drive that can accept both of the common recordable DVD formats. Likewise, DVD±RW (also written as DVD±R/W, DVD±R/RW, DVD±R/±RW, DVD+/-RW and other arbitrary ways) handles both common rewritable disc types (but not usually DVD-RAM).
DVJ1000 The DVJ1000 is a digital turntable that is capable of playing back video data on DVDs, as well as CD-Audio, and MP3 audio on both CDs and DVDs. Created by Pioneer Electronics in 2006, it is the successor to the Pioneer DVJ-X1.
DVS Records DVS Records is a Dutch independent record label, specializing in progressive metal and related music. It was founded in 2000 by Rene Janssen, a Dutch enthusiast of progressive rock and metal, and also one of the organizers of the ProgPower festival.
Dwadasama In astrology, a dwadasama, which is also called a dwad, duad or dwadachamsha is 1/12th of a zodiacal sign. The dwadasama was developed by Hindu astrologers who broke the 30 degree sign down into 12 equal parts of 2.
Dwain Esper Dwain Esper (October 7, 1892—October 18, 1982) was a director and producer of exploitation films (some of which were written by Esper's wife, Hildegarde Stadie). He is considered to be one of the worst directors of all time, and his films have become cult classics for being so notoriously bad.
Dwain Messer Dwain Messer was raised in Olive Hill, Kentucky. He attended Morehead State University, and later became a Geography and Arts & Humanities teacher for West Carter High School in Olive Hill, spending his spare time writing songs and playing with his band.
Dwan Dwan is the name of Jessica Lange's character in the Dino De Laurentiis's 1976 production of King Kong. Soon after recovering from unconsciousness, Dwan – an actress – informs the crew of the oil tanker Petrox Explorer which has rescued her at sea that she created her own name by reversing the middle two letters of the name 'Dawn' for memorability's sake.
Dwang A Noggin (ENG) or Dwang (SCT,NZ) is a horizontal bracing piece used between wall studs or floor joists to give rigidity to the wall or floor frames of a building. Traditionally they are of timber but are now also a feature of steel or aluminium framing.
Dwaraka PÄ«tha The Dwaraka PÄ«tha or Dwaraka matha is situated in the coastal city of Dwaraka, Gujarat — which itself is a popular destination of pilgrimage for the Hindus, dedicated to Krishna. It is one of the four cardinal mathas said to have been founded by Adi Sankaracarya, and is the pascimÄmnÄya matha, or western matha.
Dwarf A dwarf is a short, stocky humanoid creature in Norse mythology as well as other Germanic mythologies, fairy tales, fantasy fiction and role-playing games. The plural of the word dwarf was historically spelled dwarfs, but fantasy author J.
Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, dwarves are a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for play as player characters. Most dwarves are renowned for their distrust of magic, and for their skill as axe-wielding warriors and blacksmiths, with the exception of their Underdark-dwelling cousins: the evil, psychic Duergar.
Dwarf (Warhammer) The Dwarfs are a race in Warhammer Fantasy, very much akin to the portrayal of dwarves in many other fantasy worlds, such as The Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons. Warhammer Dwarfs are highly driven by honour, and never forget a slight.
Dwarf Blue Sheep The Dwarf Blue Sheep or Dwarf Bharal Pseudois schaeferi is an endangered species of caprid found in China and Tibet. It inhabits low, arid, grassy slopes of the upper Yangtze gorge in Batang County of the Sichuan Province, and a small part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, where it is known by the local name Rong-na.
Dwarf Bobtail The Dwarf Bobtail (Sepiola rondeleti) is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, including the Strait of Sicily, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea. In the northeastern Atlantic, its natural range extends from the North Sea to Senegal.
Dwarf cichlid The dwarf cichlid is a group of freshwater fish of the cichlid family and includes many small species from South America and riverine West Africa, particularly those suitable for the planted aquarium. Most dwarf cichlids do not grow larger than 10 cm.
Dwarf codling The dwarf codling, Notophycis marginata, is a morid cod of the family Moridae, found in the southeast Pacific and the southwest Atlantic between latitudes 32°S and 61°S, and around New Zealand, and New South Wales and Tasmania in Australia, to depths of up to 1,200 m.
Dwarf corydoras The dwarf corydoras (Corydoras hastatus), dwarf catfish, tail spot pigmy catfish, or micro catfish is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Amazon River and Paraguay River basins in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Dwarf Cassowary The Dwarf Cassowary, Casuarius bennetti also known as Bennett's Cassowary and the Mooruk is the smallest of the three species of cassowaries. It is a large, up to 110cm tall, flightless bird with hard and stiff black plumage, a low triangular casque, pink cheek and red patches of skin on its blue neck.
Dwarf Furze Dwarf Furze (Ulex gallii), also known as Western Gorse, is an evergreen shrub in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Scotland England, Wales, Ireland, France and north-western Spain. It is more common in the west and favours acid heathy soils and is frequently found in exposed maritime and montane environments.
Dwarf galaxy A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of up to several billion stars, a small number compared to our own Milky Way's 200-400 billion stars. The Large Magellanic Cloud, containing over 30 billion stars, is sometimes classified as a dwarf galaxy while others consider it a full-fledged galaxy going around the Milky Way galaxy.
Dwarf galaxy problem The dwarf galaxy problem is one that arises from numerical cosmological simulations that predict the evolution of the distribution of matter in the universe. Dark matter seems to cluster hierarchically and in ever increasing number counts for smaller and smaller sized halos.
Dwarf inanga The dwarf inanga, Galaxias gracilis, is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in 13 lakes near Dargaville in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the smallest member of the Galaxiidae family in New Zealand growing to a maximum length of only 8 cm, most adults measuring only 4 cm.
Dwarf nova A dwarf nova (or novae) is a type of cataclysmic variable, consisting of a close binary star system in which one of the components is a white dwarf, which accretes matter from its companion. They are similar to classical novae in that the white dwarf is involved in periodic outbursts, but the mechanisms are different: classical novae result from the fusion and detonation of accreted hydrogen, while current theory suggests that dwarf novae result from instability in the accretion disk, when gas in the disk reaches a critical temperature that causes a change in viscosity, resulting in a collapse onto the white dwarf, releasing large amounts of gravitational potential energy.
Dwarf Olive Ibis The Dwarf Olive Ibis (Bostrychia bocagei) is a critically endangered bird that is edemic to SĂŁo TomĂ© e PrĂncipe. Once thought to be a subspecies of the larger Olive Ibis it is now classified as two distinct species.
Dwarf Oregon-grape Dwarf Oregon-grape (Mahonia nervosa, syn. Berberis nervosa), also called Cascade Oregon-grape, is a flowering plant native to the northwest coast of North America from southern British Columbia south to central California, with an isolated population inland in northern Idaho.
Dwarf planet The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the official scientific body for astronomical nomenclature, defines a "dwarf planet" as a celestial body that, within the Solar System,IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes
Dwarf Palmetto The Dwarf Palmetto (Sabal minor) is one of about 14 species of palmetto palm (Arecaceae, genus Sabal). It is native to the southeastern United States, ranging from Florida north to eastern North Carolina, and west to eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas.
Dwarf sawshark The dwarf sawshark, Pristiophorus sp.D, is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae, found in the west Indian Ocean from Mozambique and possibly Somalia, to the Arabian Sea off Pakistan, at depths of between 285 and 500 m.
Dwarf sheet spider The dwarf sheet spiders (family Hahniidae) are small spiders, their bodies are about 2 mm in length. They build extremely delicate webs in the form of a sheet, and unlike many spiders the web does not lead to a retreat.
Dwarf spheroidal galaxy Dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) is a term in astronomy applied to the nine low luminosity dwarf elliptical galaxies that are companions to the Milky Way and to the similar systems that are companions to the Andromeda Galaxy M31.
Dwarf spider droid The Dwarf spider droid is a ground vehicle manufactured by the Commerce Guild to support the cause of the Separatists. Also known as the '"burrowing spider droid"' because it was first used to destroy opposition in narrow mine shafts.
Dwarf spiral galaxy A dwarf spiral galaxy is the dwarf version of a spiral galaxy. Dwarf galaxies are characterized as having low luminosities, small diameters (less than 5 kpc), low surface brightnesses, and low hydrogen masses.
Dwarf Sperm Whale The Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) is one of three species of whale in the sperm whale family. They are not often sighted at sea and most of our understanding of the creatures comes from the study of washed-up specimens.
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