DS

DS may refer to:

Entertainment

• Dead Space, third person horror video game.
• Deca Sports, sports video game for the Nintendo Wii developed by Hudson Soft
• Nintendo DS, a hand held gaming device made by Nintendo

Geography

• Due Sicilie (Two Sicilies), a defunct kingdom composing of Southern Italy and the island of Sicily
• Dunajská Streda, a town in Slovakia

Mathematics & science

• dS, an abbreviation for dwarf spiral galaxy
• Darmstadtium, a chemical element with atomic number 110
• Dielectric spectroscopy, or Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, measures dielectric properties of medium as function of frequency
• Directional symmetry, a method for time series analysis
• DS register, or data segment register, of X86 computer architecture

Organizations

• Bureau of Diplomatic Security, in the United States Department of State
• Democratici di Sinistra, the Democrats of the Left, a former Italian political party
• Demokratska stranka, the Democratic Party (Serbia)
• Darzhavna sigurnost, the Committee for State Security, Bulgarian secret service during the Communist rule of Bulgaria
• Divisional Secretariats of Sri Lanka

Medicine

• Down syndrome, a medical condition
• Duodenal switch, short for Bilio-Pancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch

Music

• "D.S." (song), a 1995 song by Michael Jackson
• Derek Sherinian (born 1966), keyboardist
• Dal Segno, a navigation marker in music notation

Technology

• Avid DS, an Avid Technology High-Resolution editing and effects application
• Distribution System, most commonly referring to WDS
• Directory service, a software system that stores, organizes and provides access to information in a directory
• DirectShow, a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft
• Delegation Signer, a new record type defined within DNSSEC
• Draft Standard, a maturity level of an Internet standard

Theology

• Enchiridion Symbolorum, a compendium of all basic texts of Catholic dogma, abbreviated DS in catechetics, for "Denzinger-Schönmetzer," the names of its initial compiler and a later editor

Other uses

• 7.92 DS, a Polish-designed anti-tank ammunition type
• Air Senegal (IATA code)
• Citroën DS, a model of Citroën car
• DS, the new upmarket marque or brand set up by Citroën to run alongside its mainstream cars
• Dead space (physiology), air that is inhaled by the body in breathing, but does not partake in gas exchange
• Detective Sergeant, a rank within the British Criminal Investigation Department
• Detective Superintendent (police), a rank used by British police
• D/s, short for dominance and submission
• Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum, a compendium of texts of Catholic dogma and morality
• Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik, a type of soviet satellites

See also

• Dis (disambiguation)