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Def (instrument) The tambourine is a musical instrument in the Percussion instrument, percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingle (percussion), jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine den ...

, a Middle Eastern musical instrument *''

DEF II DEF II was a programming strand on BBC2, which aired at 6 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 May 1988 to 23 May 1994, to serve the teenage market. It was produced by Janet Street-Porter, and followed on from her influential youth TV show '' ...

'', a British youth TV programme *

Def American American Recordings (formerly Def American Recordings, Inc.) is an American record label headed by producer Rick Rubin. The label has featured artists such as Slayer, the Black Crowes, ZZ Top, Danzig (band), Danzig, Trouble (band), Trouble, T ...

, a rock and rap record label *

Def Jam Recordings Def Jam Recordings (also simply known as Def Jam) is an American multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It is based in Manhattan, New York City, specializing predominantly in hip hop, contemporary R&B, soul and pop. The l ...

, a rap record label *

Def Jux Definitive Jux was a record label based in New York City. It was co-founded in 1999 by El-P and Amaechi Uzoigwe. History Definitive Jux was initially known as Def Jux. However, popular hip hop label Def Jam Recordings sued Def Jux over the name ...

, a rap record label *

Def Leppard Def Leppard are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, ...

, a British hard rock band *

So So Def Recordings So So Def Recordings is an American record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded by producer Jermaine Dupri in 1993. Specializing in Southern hip hop, R&B, and bass music, the label has signed musical acts such as Bow Wow, Kris Kross, Xsca ...

, a rap record label

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PostScript PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it c ...

Danish EL-Federation The Danish EL-Federation (, DEF) is a trade union representing electricians and technicians in Denmark. The union was founded 1 January 1904 as the Danish Union of Electricians, and affiliated to the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). By 1 ...

, Danish trade union for electricians *

Design Exchange Format {{about, the specification for representing a circuit, the CAD data file format, AutoCAD DXF Design Exchange Format (DEF) is an open specification for representing physical layout of an integrated circuit in an ASCII format. It represents the n ...

, or DEF * , or DEF,

Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory () is a former metal item factory in Kraków. It now hosts two museums: the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, on the former workshops, and a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, situate ...

in Kraków, Poland *

Diesel exhaust fluid Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF; also known as AUS 32 and sometimes marketed as AdBlue) is a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution created by a diesel engine. Specifically, DEF is an aqueous urea solution made with 32.5% urea and 67.5% ...

, or DEF, also known as AdBlue or AUS 32 *

Disarmed Enemy Forces Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEF, less commonly, Surrendered Enemy Forces) is a US designation for soldiers who surrender to an adversary after hostilities end, and for those POWs who had already surrendered and were held in camps in occupied German ...

, or DEF *

Diethylformamide Diethylformamide is an organic compound with the formula C5H11NO. As its name indicates, it is structurally related to formamide, having two ethyl group In organic chemistry, an ethyl group (abbr. Et) is an alkyl substituent with the formu ...

, an organic solvent

People with the name

Mos Def Yasiin Bey ( ; born Dante Terrell Smith; December 11, 1973), formerly known as Mos Def ( ), is an American rapper, singer, and actor. A prominent figure in conscious hip hop, he is recognized for his use of wordplay and commentary on social an ...

, a rap artist *

Def Jef Def Jef is the stage name of Jeffrey Fortson (born September 27, 1970), an American alternative hip hop musician and rapper of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was born in Harlem, New York City. His debut album was 1989's '' Just a Poet wi ...

, a rap artist

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