DFS may refer to:

Brands and enterprises

Dancer Fitzgerald Sample Dancer Fitzgerald Sample (DFS and later DFS-Dorland) was a Madison Avenue advertising agency during the 20th century. It was founded in Chicago in 1923, and was acquired and merged into the Saatchi & Saatchi network in the 1980s. History The ag ...

, advertising agency, now Saatchi & Saatchi *

DFS Furniture DFS (DFS Furniture plc, stylised as dfs, is a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland specialising in sofas and soft furnishings. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History Northern Upholstery In 1969, aged 22, G ...

, 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 and ...

(Duty Free Shoppers), Hong Kong *

DFS Program Exchange The Program Exchange was a syndicator of television programs. It was founded as DFS Program Exchange in 1978, which became elongated to the DFS-Dorland Program Exchange from 1986 to 1987. From 1986 to 2008, it was a division of Saatchi & Saatchi ...

, 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 operate ...

, 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 Services may refer to: * New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS or NYSDFS), responsible for regulating financial services and products * Florida Department of Financial Services (FLDFS), a state agency of Flori ...

* 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 Ge ...

(German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) *

Dirección Federal de Seguridad The Dirección Federal de Seguridad (''Federal Security Directorate'', DFS) was a Mexican intelligence agency and secret police. It was created in 1947 under Mexican president Miguel Alemán Valdés with the assistance of U.S. intelligence agen ...

, 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 Government of New York (state), New York state government responsible for regulating financial services and products, including those subject to the Consol ...

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 alon ...

, an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures *

Discrete Fourier series In digital signal processing, the term Discrete Fourier series (DFS) is any periodic discrete-time signal comprising harmonically-related (i.e. ''Fourier'') discrete real sinusoids or discrete complex exponentials, combined by a weighted summation. ...

, 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 The Disc Filing System (DFS) is a computer file system developed by Acorn Computers, initially as an add-on to the Eurocard-based Acorn System 2. In 1981, the Education Departments of Western Australia and South Australia announced joint tende ...

, 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: L ...

, 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 envi ...

, 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 near ...

(''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 clo ...

, 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 latitu ...

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. I ...

, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code *

Dynamite Fighting Show The Dynamite Fighting Show (DFS) is a Romanian kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts (MMA), boxing, kyokushin and taekwondo promotion company based in Bucharest, Romania, which is owned by veteran heavyweight star Cătălin Moroșanu. It i ...

, a Romanian-based

kickboxing Kickboxing is a combat sports, combat sport focused on kicking and punch (strike), 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 pract ...

promotion company {{disambiguation