DES

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DES may mean:

[edit] Mathematics and programming

• Data Encryption Standard, a deprecated cryptographic block cipher that falls to brute force attacks due to its short 56-bit key
• Discrete event simulation, a simulation that models a system by examining its changes as discrete events
• Discrete event system, a system with state changes driven by discrete events
• DirectShow Editing Services, a Microsoft DirectShow API.

[edit] Science

• Dark Energy Survey, a proposed survey of part of the Southern sky to determine cosmology parameters
• Deep Ecliptic Survey, an astronomy project to find Kuiper belt objects
• Desmin, a human protein
• Detached eddy simulation, a turbulence model used in computational fluid dynamics
• Diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen developed to supplement a woman's natural estrogen production
• the Dietary Energy Supply. a measure of how many calories are available per person in each country
• Diffuse esophageal spasm, a condition resulting from a disorder of the esophagus
• Drug-eluting stent, a device placed in coronary arteries to treat or prevent heart attacks
• Dysequilibrium syndrome, former name for VLDLR-associated cerebellar hypoplasia

[edit] Other

• Department of Education and Science, a former department in the United Kingdom government
• Delivered Ex Ship, an Incoterm
• The IATA airport code for Desroches Airport
• A shortened form of the names Desmond and Desiree
• Discipline Economiche e Sociali (Economics and Social Sciences); a degree course in economics held at Bocconi University.
• The musical note D♭, in German nomenclature