DFS may refer to:

Brands and enterprises

Dancer Fitzgerald Sample Dancer Fitzgerald Sample (DFS and later DFS-Dorland) was a Madison Avenue advertising agency during the 20th century. It was founded in Chicago in 1923, and was acquired and merged into the Saatchi & Saatchi network in the 1980s. History The age ...

, advertising agency, now Saatchi & Saatchi *

DFS Furniture DFS Furniture plc, trading as dfs, is a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland specialising in sofas and soft furnishings. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History Northern Upholstery In 1969, aged 22, Graham Kirkha ...

, a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland *

DFS Group DFS Group (DFS) ( Chinese: 迪斐世) is a global travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong. Established in 1960, its global network consists of stores located in major global airports and downtown locations featuring over 750 brand ...

(Duty Free Shoppers), Hong Kong * DFS Program Exchange, a former syndicator of TV programs *

Discover Financial Services Discover Financial Services, Inc. was an American financial services company best known for its Discover Card. Founded in 1985, the company offered a wide range of banking and payment services, including checking and savings accounts, persona ...

, NYSE symbol *

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 G ...

, an air traffic control company

Organizations

* Department of Field Support, a UN department *

Department of Financial Services (disambiguation) Department of Financial Services may refer to: * New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS or NYSDFS), responsible for regulating financial services and products * Florida Department of Financial Services (FLDFS), a state agency of Flori ...

Department of Financial Studies The Department of Financial Studies (DFS) is a department of the University of Delhi offering programs in finance. Tracing its roots in the Delhi School of Economics, the DFS was carved out of the Department of Commerce of the university in 1987 ...

, University of Delhi, India *

Det frivillige Skyttervesen Det frivillige Skyttervesen (DFS) (), known in English as the National Rifle Association of Norway, and by DFS themselves as the Norwegian Civilian Marksmanship Association since 2020, is a civilian marksmanship association in Norway and the lar ...

, the National Rifle Association of Norway *

, the German air traffic control organisation *

Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug The , 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 Gesellschaft (RRG) at Darmstadt.Reitsch, H., 1955, ...

(German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) *

Dirección Federal de Seguridad The Dirección Federal de Seguridad (''Federal Security Directorate'', DFS) was a Mexican intelligence agency and secret police. It was created in 1947 under Mexican president Miguel Alemán Valdés with the assistance of U.S. intelligence age ...

, Federal Direction of Security, Mexico *

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 fin ...

Science and technology

Computing

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 al ...

, an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures *

Discrete Fourier series In digital signal processing, a discrete Fourier series (DFS) is a Fourier series whose sinusoidal components are functions of a discrete variable instead of a continuous variable. The result of the series is also a function of the discrete variab ...

, the discrete version of Fourier series *

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 conserv ...

, a method for reducing a microprocessor's power consumption * Dynamic Frequency Selection, part of the IEEE 802.11h wireless standard

File systems

* Disc Filing System, a filesystem developed by Acorn Computers *

Distributed file system A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously Mount (computing), mounted on multiple Server (computing), servers. There are several approaches to computer cluster, clustering, most of which do not emplo ...

, a method of storing persistent data over computer network ** DCE Distributed File System (DCE/DFS), the remote file access protocol used with the Distributed Computing Environment **

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 Server Message Block, SMB file shares into a distributed file system. DFS has two compone ...

, distributed SMB file shares

Other uses in science and technology

* Decoherence-free subspaces, subspace of a system's Hilbert space where the system is decoupled from the environment * Demand Flexibility Service, a demand response system for electricity supplies in the United Kingdom *

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 near ...

(''Deutscher Fernmeldesatellit Kopernikus''), a series of satellites *

Digital Frequency Synthesizer A digital clock manager (DCM) is an electronic component available on some field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) (notably ones produced by Xilinx). A digital clock manager is useful for manipulating clock signals inside the FPGA, and to avoid cloc ...

, generation of different frequency from another in phase *

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 * Double Fourier sphere method in mathematics and geosciences

Other uses

Daily fantasy sports Daily fantasy sports (DFS) are a subset of fantasy sport games. As with traditional fantasy sports games, players compete against others by building a team of professional athletes from a particular league or competition while remaining under ...

, a subset of fantasy sport games *

Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries () is a Counties of Scotland, historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the hi ...

, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code * Dynamite Fighting Show, a Romanian-based

kickboxing Kickboxing ( ) is a full-contact hybrid Martial arts, martial art and Boxing (disambiguation), boxing type based on punch (combat), punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in the 1950s to 1970s. The fight takes place in a boxing ring, norma ...

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