Di or DI may refer to:

Arts and media

Music

  • Di, a tone in the solfège ascending chromatic scale existing between Do and Re
  • dizi (instrument) or di, a Chinese transverse flute
  • D.I. (band), a punk band from Southern California
  • D.I. (EP), a 1983 EP by the same band above

Other media

  • The D.I., 1957 military film by Jack Webb
  • Dagens Industri, a Swedish financial newspaper
  • DI.FM, an internet radio service

Businesses and organisations

  • Defence Intelligence, a UK military intelligence agency
  • Defensa Interior, an anti-Franco militant anarchist group in 1960s Spain
  • Deseret Industries, an LDS thrift store
  • Desert Inn, a former casino in Las Vegas
  • Direction Italy, a liberal-conservative political party in Italy
  • Dirgantara Indonesia, an Indonesian aircraft company
  • Discovery Institute, an intelligent design advocacy group
  • Marabu (airline) (IATA code: DI), an Estonian leisure airline
  • Norwegian Air UK (former IATA code: DI), a former UK airline
  • DBA (airline) (former IATA code: DI), a former German low-cost airline
  • DynCorp International, a major United States defense contractor
  • Myanmar Directorate of Defence Industries

Education

  • Diplomi-insinööri, a Finnish 6-year engineering degree
  • Direct instruction, an instructional method focused on a systematic curriculum design

Natural sciences

  • Di, a prefix used in organic chemistry nomenclature
  • Didymium, a mixture of the elements praseodymium and neodymium once thought to be an element
  • Diopside, a clinopyroxene mineral
  • Band 3, a protein
  • Deionized water, a type of water deprived of the dissolved impurities of ionic nature
  • Diabetes insipidus, a disease
  • Iodothyronine deiodinase type I, one of a subfamily of enzymes important in the activation and deactivation of thyroid hormones
  • Dentinogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder of tooth development

People

Ethnic groups

  • Di (Five Barbarians) (), an ethnic group that overran northern China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period
  • Beidi or Northern Di (), ethnic groups living in northern China during the Zhou Dynasty

Individuals

  • Di (surname) (狄), a Chinese surname sometimes also romanized Dee, particularly:
  • Di Renjie a Tang-dynasty official later fictionalized in a series of Chinese detective stories
  • A diminutive form of the names:
  • Diana (given name)
  • Diane (disambiguation)
  • Dianne (disambiguation)
  • Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997), commonly known as Princess Di or Lady Di

Technology

  • Digital intermediate, a filmmaking post-production process
  • Dependency injection, a method of decoupling components in software
  • DI unit or Direct Input box, an audio device used with PA systems and in sound recording studios
  • DI register, or destination index, in x86 computer architecture
  • Direction indicator, an instrument in aviation also known as a heading indicator
  • Direct ignition, see Distributor § Direct ignition
  • Direct injection, a type of fuel injection

Religion

  • di (), a Chinese word employed in
  • the temple names of deified Chinese emperors
  • Shangdi (Chinese: , <small>lit.</small> "Lord on High"), the Chinese name for the supreme sky god either in native Chinese beliefs or in translation of monotheistic faiths like Christianity and Islam
  • di (Chinese concept) (), the concept of "earth" in traditional Chinese cosmologies
  • di, an irregular Latin masculine plural of deus ("god", "deity")

Other uses

  • Detective inspector (DI), a rank in certain police forces
  • Di (cuneiform), an ancient written sign
  • Diameter, the distance across the middle of a circle
  • Di Department, one of the eight departments of the Sourou Province in Burkina Faso
  • 501 (number) in Roman numerals
  • Disability insurance, a form of insurance that insures the beneficiary's earned income against the risk that a disability will make working uncomfortable
  • Hong Kong Document of Identity, issued by the Hong Kong Immigration Department
  • Drill instructor, a non-commissioned officer in many military or police forces
  • Differentiated integration, a mechanism for the European Union's countries to opt out of EU policies

See also

  • Lady Di (disambiguation)
  • Die (disambiguation)