DS
Encyclopedia
Entertainment
- Dead SpaceDead Space (video game)Dead Space is a survival horror third-person shooter video game, developed by EA Redwood Shores for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was made available on Steam on October 20, 2008...
, third person horror video game. - Deca SportsDeca SportsDeca Sports is a sports video game for the Wii developed by Hudson Soft. It is similar to Wii Sports in that it is a collection of ten different sports simulations controlled with the Wii Remote.The game was released in Japan on March 19, 2008, and was released in the rest of the world later in...
, sports video game for the Nintendo WiiWiiThe Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
developed by Hudson SoftHudson Soft, formally known as , is a majority-owned subsidiary of Konami Corporation is a Japanese electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo. It was founded on May 18, 1973... - Nintendo DSNintendo DSThe is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
, a hand held gaming device made by Nintendo
Geography
- Due Sicilie (Two Sicilies), a defunct kingdom composing of Southern Italy and the island of Sicily
- Dunajská StredaDunajská StredaDunajská Streda is a town in southern Slovakia . Dunajská Streda is the most important town of the Žitný ostrov region. It has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population is 23,562 -Name:...
, a town in Slovakia
Mathematics & science
- dS, an abbreviation for dwarf spiral galaxy
- DarmstadtiumDarmstadtiumDarmstadtium is a chemical element with the symbol Ds and atomic number 110. It is placed as the heaviest member of group 10, but no known isotope is sufficiently stable to allow chemical experiments to confirm its placing in that group...
, a chemical element with atomic number 110 - Dielectric spectroscopyDielectric spectroscopyDielectric spectroscopy , and also known as electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, measures the dielectric properties of a medium as a function of frequency...
, or Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, measures dielectric properties of medium as function of frequency - Directional symmetryDirectional symmetryDirectional symmetry is roughly defined as "things going the same direction," and is to be distinguished from directional asymmetry, meaning "things going different directions."The following formula tests for directional symmetry:...
, a method for time series analysis - DS register, or data segment register, of X86 computer architecture
Organizations
- Bureau of Diplomatic SecurityBureau of Diplomatic SecurityThe Bureau of Diplomatic Security, more commonly known as Diplomatic Security, or DS, is the security and law enforcement arm of the United States Department of State. DS is a world leader in international investigations, threat analysis, cyber security, counterterrorism, security technology, and...
, in the United States Department of State - Democratici di Sinistra, the Democrats of the LeftDemocrats of the LeftThe Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...
, a former Italian political party - Demokratska stranka, the Democratic Party (Serbia)Democratic Party (Serbia)The Democratic Party is a political party in Serbia. It is described as a social liberal or social democratic party.-Pre-war history:The Democratic Party was established on 16 February 1919 from unification of Sarajevo parties independent radicals, progressives, liberals and the Serbian part of...
- Darzhavna sigurnost, the Committee for State SecurityCommittee for State SecurityThe Committee for State Security , popularly known as State Security was the name of the Bulgarian secret service during the Communist rule of Bulgaria and the Cold War ....
, Bulgarian secret service during the Communist rule of Bulgaria - Divisional secretariat
Medicine
- Down syndromeDown syndromeDown syndrome, or Down's syndrome, trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome in 1866. The condition was clinically described earlier in the 19th...
, a medical condition - Duodenal switchDuodenal switchThe duodenal switch procedure, also known as biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch or gastric reduction duodenal switch , is a weight loss surgery procedure that is composed of a restrictive and a malabsorptive aspect....
, short for Bilio-Pancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch
Music
- "D.S." (song)D.S. (song)"D.S." is an album track by Michael Jackson from his 1995 double disc record HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. It is track six on the second disc, one of the three songs from that disc whose lyrics are printed in the album booklet, and is four minutes and forty-nine seconds in length...
, a 1995 song by Michael Jackson - Derek SherinianDerek SherinianDerek Sherinian is a rock keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kiss, and Alice In Chains. He was also a member of Dream Theater and is the founder of the instrumental metal-fusion band Planet X...
(born 1966), keyboardist - Dal SegnoDal SegnoIn music notation, Dal segno is used as a navigation marker. From Italian for "from the sign," D.S. appears in sheet music and instructs a musician to repeat a passage starting from the sign shown at right, sometimes called the "segno" in English.Two common variants:*D.S...
, a navigation marker in music notation
Technology
- Avid DS, an Avid Technology High-Resolution editing and effects application
- Distribution System, most commonly referring to WDSWireless Distribution SystemA wireless distribution system is a system enabling the wireless interconnection of access points in an IEEE 802.11 network. It allows a wireless network to be expanded using multiple access points without the traditional requirement for a wired backbone to link them...
- Directory serviceDirectory serviceA directory service is the software system that stores, organizes and provides access to information in a directory. In software engineering, a directory is a map between names and values. It allows the lookup of values given a name, similar to a dictionary...
, a software system that stores, organizes and provides access to information in a directory - DirectShowDirectShowDirectShow , codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology...
, a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft - Delegation Signer, a new record type defined within DNSSECDNSSECThe Domain Name System Security Extensions is a suite of Internet Engineering Task Force specifications for securing certain kinds of information provided by the Domain Name System as used on Internet Protocol networks...
- Draft Standard, a maturity level of an Internet standardInternet standardIn computer network engineering, an Internet Standard is a normative specification of a technology or methodology applicable to the Internet. Internet Standards are created and published by the Internet Engineering Task Force .-Overview:...
Other uses
- 7.92 DS7.92 DSThe 7.92 mm DS was a Polish 7.92 mm anti-tank ammunition designed specifically for use with the karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35 anti-tank rifle...
, a Polish-designed anti-tank ammunition type - Air Senegal (IATA code)
- Citroën DSCitroën DSThe Citroën DS is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Citroën between 1955 and 1975. Styled by Italian sculptor and industrial designer Flaminio Bertoni and the French aeronautical engineer André Lefèbvre, the DS was known for its aerodynamic futuristic body design and innovative...
, a model of Citroën car - DSDS car marqueCitroën announced at the beginning of 2009 the development of a premium brand DS, for Different Spirit or Distinctive Series, to run in parallel to its mainstream cars. This new series of cars would initially start with the smallest of the three models that have been confirmed called the DS3 in...
, the new upmarket marque or brand set up by Citroën to run alongside its mainstream cars - Dead space (physiology), air that is inhaled by the body in breathing, but does not partake in gas exchange
- Detective Sergeant, a rank within the British Criminal Investigation DepartmentCriminal Investigation DepartmentThe Crime Investigation Department is the branch of all Territorial police forces within the British Police and many other Commonwealth police forces, to which plain clothes detectives belong. It is thus distinct from the Uniformed Branch and the Special Branch.The Metropolitan Police Service CID,...
- Detective Superintendent (police)Superintendent (police)Superintendent , often shortened to "super", is a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations. In many Commonwealth countries the full version is superintendent of police...
, a rank used by British police - D/s, short for dominance and submission
- Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morumEnchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morumThe Enchiridion is a compendium of all basic texts of Catholic dogma and morality since the apostles. Commissioned by Pope Pius IX, it has been in use since 1854, and has been updated since...
, a compendium of texts of Catholic dogma and morality - Dnepropetrovsk SputnikDnepropetrovsk SputnikDnepropetrovsk Sputnik , also known as DS, was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1982. DS satellites were used for a number of missions, including technological and scientific research, and radar tracking targets for anti-satellite weapons and anti-ballistic...
, a type of soviet satellites