desi

/ ˈdeɪsiː /

adjective

1. indigenous or local

   a desi buda

2. authentic

   desi music

Word History and Origins

Origin of desi¹

C21: Hindi, from Sanskrit deśa a country

Example Sentences

In the DESI-derived DDE simulation, the BAO peak shifted by 3.71% toward smaller scales, closely matching DESI's actual observations.

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A third simulation used parameters drawn from DESI's first-year data, revealing how an "updated" cosmological model might behave if dark energy truly varies with time.

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The film also has a Bhangra Christmas song, and a tribute to George Michael with Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra Jonas singing a desi take on Last Christmas.

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However, interest in evolving dark energy was vigorously rekindled last year from the combination of supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillation, and cosmic microwave background data from the DES, DESI, and Planck experiments.

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Shajib: For this paper, we gathered all the major data sets -- from the DES, DESI, SDSS, Time-Delay COSMOgraphy, Planck, and Atacama Cosmology Telescope -- and combined them to get the most constraining measurement of dark energy to date.

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