DFS may refer to:
Brands and enterprises
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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
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DFS Furniture, a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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DFS Group (Duty Free Shoppers), Hong Kong
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DFS Program Exchange, a former syndicator of TV programs
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Discover Financial Services, NYSE symbol
Organizations
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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
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Department of Financial Services (disambiguation)
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Department of Financial Studies
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
, University of Delhi, India
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Det frivillige Skyttervesen, the National Rifle Association of Norway
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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
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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)
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Dirección Federal de Seguridad, Federal Direction of Security, Mexico
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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
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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
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Discrete Fourier series, the discrete version of Fourier series
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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
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Dynamic Frequency Selection, part of the IEEE 802.11h wireless standard
File systems
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Disc Filing System, a filesystem developed by Acorn Computers
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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
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(DCE/DFS), the remote file access protocol used with the Distributed Computing Environment
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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
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Decoherence-free subspaces, subspace of a system's Hilbert space where the system is decoupled from the environment
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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
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Digital Frequency Synthesizer, generation of different frequency from another in phase
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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
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Double Fourier sphere method in mathematics and geosciences
Other uses
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Daily fantasy sports, a subset of fantasy sport games
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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.
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, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code
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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
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