DEM was the

ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individ ...

currency code for the

Deutsche Mark The Deutsche Mark (; "German mark (currency), mark"), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark" (), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later of unified Germany from 1990 until the adoption of the euro in 2002. In English, it ...

, former currency of Germany

Computing

Digital elevation model A digital elevation model (DEM) or digital surface model (DSM) is a 3D computer graphics representation of elevation data to represent terrain or overlaying objects, commonly of a planet, Natural satellite, moon, or asteroid. A "global DEM" refer ...

, a digital representation of ground-surface topography or terrain ** .dem, a common extension for

USGS DEM The USGS DEM standard is a geospatial file format developed by the United States Geological Survey for storing a Raster graphics, raster-based digital elevation model. It is an open standard, and is used throughout the world. It has been superseded ...

files * Discrete element method or discrete element modeling, a family of numerical methods for computing the motion of a large number of small particles (like molecules or grains of sand) * Diffuse element method, a numerical simulation method used (for example) to solve partial differential equations * Display Encode Mode, a feature of the AMD's Video Codec Engine * Distance Estimation Method, for drawing Julia sets or Mandelbrot sets

Organisations

* Department of Environmental Management, a name of various government entities * Democratic Party, short form of the name of the political parties in the world *

Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is a Centre-left politics, center-left political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Major party, major parties of the U.S., it was founded in 1828, making it the world's oldes ...

Democrats (Brazil) The Democrats (, DEM) was a Centre-right politics, centre-right political party in Brazil that merged with the Social Liberal Party (Brazil), Social Liberal Party to found the Brazil Union in 2021. It was founded in 1985 under the name of Liberal ...

* Dravske elektrarne Maribor d.o.o., an electric power company in Slovenia * Day Eight Music, a record label founded by Jonas Hellborg * Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, abbreviated as DEM Parti.

Other uses

* Dem language *

Demonstrative Demonstratives (list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated ) are words, such as ''this'' and ''that'', used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others. They are typically deictic, their meaning ...

linguistic categories (abbreviated ) * Deus ex machina (

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

; literally "a god from a machine"), a resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that he or she desired * Diethyl malonate, the diethyl ester of malonic acid * Dynamic element matching, a technique used in

integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

s design to compensate for components mismatch * Dem3000, an online handle of YouTuber Jakub Dębski {{Disambiguation