DSS may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Dejerine Sottas syndrome, genetic disorder a.k.a. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 3 * Dengue shock syndrome * Disease-specific survival *

Dextran Dextran is a complex branched glucan (polysaccharide derived from the condensation of glucose), originally derived from wine. IUPAC defines dextrans as "Branched poly-α-d-glucosides of microbial origin having glycosidic bonds predominantly C-1 ...

, a chemical used experimentally to induce colitis in rodents *

Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate Docusate is the common chemical and pharmaceutical name of the anion bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate, also commonly called dioctyl sulfosuccinate (DOSS). It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. Salts of this anion ...

, a lubricant, laxative, and pesticide * Dimethyl-silapentane-sulfonate, chemical compound used in spectroscopy for calibration * Disuccinimidyl suberate, a biochemical tool used as protein cross-linking agent

Computing

Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server (DSS) was the first open sourced RTP/RTSP streaming server. It was released March 16, 1999 and is a fully featured RTSP/ RTP media streaming server capable of streaming a variety of media types including H.264/MPEG-4 AV ...

, the open source equivalent of QuickTime Streaming Server *

Decision support system A decision support system (DSS) is an information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and higher management) and h ...

, information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities * Digital Signature Services, OASIS standard XML-based request/response protocols *

Digital Signature Standard The Digital Signature Standard (DSS) is a Federal Information Processing Standard specifying a suite of algorithms that can be used to generate digital signatures established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1994 ...

, which uses the Digital Signature Algorithm *

Digital Speech Standard Digital Speech Standard (DSS) is a Proprietary software, proprietary Audio data compression, compressed digital audio file format defined by the International Voice Association, a co-operative venture by Olympus company, Olympus, Philips and Grundig ...

, a format of audio file * Digital Subscriber System

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. Wo ...

, signalling standards: **

Digital Subscriber System No. 1 Digital Subscriber Signalling System No. 1 (DSS1) is a digital signalling protocol (D channel protocol) used for the ISDN. It is defined by ITU-T I.411 (ETS 300 102). It supports Bearer Capability, Low Level Compatibility and High Level Compa ...

, a digital signalling protocol (D channel protocol) used for the ISDN **

Digital Subscriber System No. 2 Digital Subscriber Signalling System No. 2 (DSS2), as the successor to DSS1, is also a digital signalling protocol (D channel protocol) used for the B-ISDN In the 1980s, the telecommunications industry expected that digital services would fo ...

, as the successor to DSS1, is also a digital signalling protocol (D channel protocol) used for the B-ISDN

Technology

* Deep Space Station, an antenna station in any of Deep Space Communication Complexes, part of the

Deep Space Network The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide Telecommunications network, network of American spacecraft communication ground segment facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that suppo ...

. *

Digital Satellite Service Digital Satellite System is the initialism expansion of the DSS digital satellite television transmission system used by DirecTV. Only when digital transmission was introduced did direct broadcast satellite (DBS) television become popular in North A ...

, digital satellite television transmission system used by DirecTV *

Digitized Sky Survey The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a digitized version of several photographic astronomical surveys of the night sky, produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute between 1983 and 2006. Versions and source material The term Digitized Sky S ...

, a digital version of several photographic atlases of the night sky * Direct-Sequence Spreading, another term for

Direct-sequence spread spectrum In telecommunications, direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) is a spread-spectrum modulation technique primarily used to reduce overall signal interference. The direct-sequence modulation makes the transmitted signal wider in bandwidth than t ...

* Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, at technique for the coexistence of 4G and 5G mobile standards.

Government and politics

U.S.

Defense Security Service The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is a federasecurityand defense agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) that reports to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.DCSA is the largest counterintellige ...

, an agency in the U.S. Department of Defense * Department of Social Services, another name for Child Protective Services, a government agency in several states *

Diplomatic Security Service The Diplomatic Security Service (DSS or DS) is a security and law enforcement agency that acts as the operational division of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, which is a branch of the United States Department of State. Its primary mission is ...

, an agency in the U.S. Department of State * Director of Selective Service of the

Selective Service System The Selective Service System (SSS) is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States government that maintains information on U.S. Citizenship of the Unite ...

, as in the widely used "Draft Card" in the U.S. during World War II, officially known as ''DSS Form 1 Registration Card'' *

Domestic Security Section The Domestic Security Section (DSS) was a component of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division that was focused on the prosecution of significant alien smuggling organizations, complex immigration frauds, certain violent crime an ...

, part of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice

Elsewhere

* Directorate of State Security (''Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit''), Albanian domestic security agency during the

Hoxha Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanians, Albanian communist politician who was the authoritarian ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was Secretary (title)#First secretary, First Secretary of t ...

and

Alia Alia or ALIA may refer to: People *Alia (name), a list of people with the surname or given name Places *Alia, Sicily, Italy, a comune * Alia (Phrygia), a town of ancient Phrygia which remains a Roman Catholic titular bishopric *Alía, Spain, a mu ...

dictatorship (1944-1991); dissolved in 1991 *

Department of Social Security (Australia) The Department of Social Security (the DSS) was a government department in Australia, which administered the Social Security system between 1972 and 1998.. The department was one of several new departments established by the Whitlam Government ...

, defunct governmental agency in Australia *

Department of Social Services (Australia) The Department of Social Services (DSS) is a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility for national policies and programs that help deliver a strong and fair society for all Australians. The department develops ...

, a national government department in Australia *

Department of Social Security (United Kingdom) The Department of Social Security (DSS) was a governmental agency in the United Kingdom from 1988 to 2001. The old abbreviation is still often used informally. Advertisements for rented accommodation used to describe prospective tenants who wou ...

, defunct governmental agency in the United Kingdom * Demokratska Srpska stranka (Democratic Serb Party), a political party in Montenegro *

Democratic Party of Serbia The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Initially known and formed as Democ ...

(''Demokratska stranka Srbije''), a political party in Serbia *

United Nations Department for Safety and Security The Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) is a department of the United Nations providing safety and security services to for United Nations agencies and departments as part of the United Nations Safety Management System. UNDSS reports direct ...

, a department of the UN dealing with the security and safety of its staff * Department of State Services, Nigeria, formerly known as State Security Service (SSS), the domestic intelligence agency of Nigeria

Schools and organizations

Delta Secondary School (Delta, British Columbia) Delta Secondary is a public high school in Ladner, British Columbia, Canada. DSS is located in the historic village of Ladner, B.C. With a student enrolment of approximately 1,150 students (grades 8 to 12), it is the third-largest school in Scho ...

, a school in Canada *

Direct Subsidy Scheme The Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) is instituted by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong to enhance the quality of private schools at the primary and secondary levels. The Hong Kong government has been encouraging non-government secondary schools w ...

, a schooling system in Hong Kong * Dansk Spejderkorps Sydslesvig, a Scout association of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig, Germany *

Dera Sacha Sauda Dera Sacha Sauda ("Camp True-Deal"; colloquially DSS) is an Indian non-governmental organization described as a "religious cult" and "non-profit social welfare dera" that was established on 29 April 1948 by Mastana Balochistani, an ascetic f ...

, a non-profit social welfare and spiritual organization

Other

Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Mandatory Palestine, near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the nor ...

, ancient manuscripts discovered in caves on the shore of the Dead Sea *

Blaise Diagne International Airport Blaise Diagne International Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport international Blaise Diagne, ) is an international airport near the town of Diass in Thiès Region, Senegal, east of downtown Dakar. It serves as the main airport for Dakar, replac ...

, Diass, Senegal, by IATA code *

Deputy Superintending Surveyor Deputy or depute may refer to: * Steward (office) * Khalifa, an Arabic title that can signify "deputy" * Deputy (legislator), a legislator in many countries and regions, including: ** A member of a Chamber of Deputies, for example in Italy, Spain, ...

, an entry level engineering post in India *

Design for Six Sigma Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is an Engineering design process, business process management method related to traditional Six Sigma.Chowdhury, Subir (2002) Design for Six Sigma: The revolutionary process for achieving extraordinary profits, Prenti ...

(also abbreviated DFSS), a business management method *

Dizionario Storico della Svizzera The ''Historical Dictionary of Switzerland'' is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland that aims to take into account the results of modern historical research in a manner accessible to a broader audience. The encyclopedia is publishe ...

, the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (Italian) *

Duplex Stainless Steel Duplex stainless steels are a family of stainless steels. These are called duplex (or austenitic-ferritic) grades because their metallurgical structure consists of two phases, austenite (face-centered cubic lattice) and ferrite (body centered cubi ...

, a steel with improved resistance to localized corrosion *

Demographic surveillance system In the fields of demographics and public health, a demographic surveillance system (DSS), also called a health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS), gathers longitudinal health and demographic data for a dynamic cohort of the total populati ...

- Periodic data collection system of a geographic area