DFS may refer to:

Brands and enterprises

Dancer Fitzgerald Sample Dancer Fitzgerald Sample (DFS and later DFS-Dorland) was a Madison Avenue Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Squa ...

, advertising agency, now Saatchi & Saatchi * DFS Furniture, a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland *

DFS Group DFS ("DFS Group") is a Hong Kong-based travel retailer of luxury products. Established in 1960, its network consists of over 420 locations, including duty-free stores in 12 major airports and 23 downtown Galleria stores, as well as affiliate an ...

(Duty Free Shoppers), Hong Kong * DFS Program Exchange, a former syndicator of TV programs *

Discover Financial Services Discover Financial Services is an American financial services company that owns and operates Discover Bank, which offers checking and savings accounts, personal loans, home equity loans, student loans and credit cards. It also owns and operates ...

, NYSE symbol

Organizations

Department of Field Support The Department of Field Support (DFS) was a department of the United Nations dedicated to the support of peacekeeping field missions and political field missions. Following the UN Secretary-general's management reform, it ceased to exist on ...

, a UN department * Department of Financial Services (disambiguation) * Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi, India *

Det frivillige Skyttervesen Det frivillige Skyttervesen (DFS) (), known in English as the National Rifle Association of Norway, and by DFS themselves as the Norwegian Civilian Marksmanship Association since 2020, is a civilian marksmanship association in Norway and the lar ...

, the National Rifle Association of Norway *

Deutsche Flugsicherung Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) is the company in charge of air traffic control for Germany. It is a company organized under private law and 100% owned by the Federal Republic of Germany. Since January 1993, DFS has been controlling air traffic in Ge ...

, the German air traffic control organisation *

Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug The ''Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (), or DFS , was formed in 1933 to centralise all gliding activity in Germany, under the directorship of Professor Walter Georgii. It was formed by the nationalisation of the Rhön-Rossitten G ...

(German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) * Dirección Federal de Seguridad, Federal Direction of Security, Mexico *

New York State Department of Financial Services The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS or NYSDFS) is the department of the New York state government responsible for regulating financial services and products, including those subject to the New York insurance, banking and fina ...

Science and technology

Computing

Depth-first search Depth-first search (DFS) is an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures. The algorithm starts at the root node (selecting some arbitrary node as the root node in the case of a graph) and explores as far as possible alo ...

, an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures * Discrete Fourier series, the discrete version of Fourier series *

Dynamic frequency scaling Dynamic frequency scaling (also known as CPU throttling) is a power management technique in computer architecture whereby the frequency of a microprocessor can be automatically adjusted "on the fly" depending on the actual needs, to conserve ...

, a method for reducing a microprocessor's power consumption * Dynamic Frequency Selection, part of the IEEE 802.11h wireless standard

File systems

* Disc Filing System, a filesystem developed by Acorn Computers *

Distributed file system A clustered file system is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system (only direct attached storage for ...

, a method of storing persistent data over computer network **

DCE Distributed File System {{Distinguish, Distributed File System (Microsoft) The DCE Distributed File System (DCE/DFS)

(DCE/DFS), the remote file access protocol used with the Distributed Computing Environment **

Distributed File System (Microsoft) Distributed File System (DFS) is a set of client and server services that allow an organization using Microsoft Windows servers to organize many distributed SMB file shares into a distributed file system. DFS has two components to its service: ...

, distributed SMB file shares

Other uses in science and technology

Decoherence-free subspaces A decoherence-free subspace (DFS) is a subspace of a quantum system's Hilbert space that is invariant to non- unitary dynamics. Alternatively stated, they are a small section of the system Hilbert space where the system is decoupled from the env ...

, subspace of a system's Hilbert space where the system is decoupled from the environment *

DFS Kopernikus DFS Kopernikus (meaning ''Deutscher Fernmeldesatellit Kopernikus'') was the name of three geostationary satellites of Deutsche Bundespost and later Deutsche Telekom AG. They are no longer in use. DFS Kopernicus-3 When DFS Kopernikus-3 was ne ...

(''Deutscher Fernmeldesatellit Kopernikus''), a series of satellites *

Digital Frequency Synthesizer A digital clock manager (DCM) is an electronic component available on some field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) (notably ones produced by Xilinx). A digital clock manager is useful for manipulating clock signals inside the FPGA, and to avoid cloc ...

, generation of different frequency from another in phase *

Disease-free survival Survival rate is a part of survival analysis. It is the proportion of people in a study or treatment group still alive at a given period of time after diagnosis. It is a method of describing prognosis in certain disease conditions, and can be use ...

, a measure of the efficacy of medical treatment *

Double Fourier sphere method In mathematics, the double Fourier sphere (DFS) method is a simple technique that transforms a function defined on the surface of the sphere to a function defined on a rectangular domain while preserving periodicity in both the longitude and latit ...

in mathematics and geosciences

Other uses

Daily fantasy sports Daily fantasy sports (DFS) are a subset of fantasy sport games. As with traditional fantasy sports games, players compete against others by building a team of professional athletes from a particular league or competition while remaining under a ...

, a subset of fantasy sport games *

Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (''Siorrachd Dhùn Phris'' in Gaelic) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the historic county. ...

, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code * Dynamite Fighting Show, a Romanian-based

kickboxing Kickboxing is a combat sport focused on kicking and punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favour the use of kicks. Kickboxing is practiced for self-defense, gen ...

promotion company {{disambiguation