DDS may refer to:

Arts and media

  • Digimon Data Squad, season 5 of the anime Digimon.
  • Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga, a 2004 video game spun off from the Shin Megami Tensei series
  • Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, Russian composer
  • Death's Dynamic Shroud, American electronic and vaporwave trio

Organizations

Government agencies

  • Disability Determination Service, a state agency in the United States that determines eligibility for federal disability benefits
  • Department of Driver Services, also known as Department of Motor Vehicles
  • Due Diligence System

Private organizations

  • Davao Death Squad, a vigilante group in Davao City, Philippines
  • Davidson Day School, a pre-K–12 school in Davidson, North Carolina, United States
  • De Danske Skytteforeninger, a Danish sports organization
  • Diehard Duterte Supporters, supporters of Rodrigo Duterte, 16th president of the Philippines
  • Donovan Data Systems, a software and computer services company
  • Dutchess Day School, private pre-K through 8th grade school in Millbrook, New York, United States

Science and technology

Chemistry

  • Dimethyldichlorosilane, an organosilicon compound
  • Dammarenediol II synthase, an enzyme

Computing and information technology

  • Direct Digital Synthesis / Direct digital synthesizer, a method for generation of periodic digital signals and used for creating arbitrary waveforms from a reference clock
  • Data Definition Specification, in software data management
  • Data Description Specifications, in AS/400 programming
  • Data Distribution Service, an Object Management Group standard for publish/subscribe middleware for distributed systems
  • Data dictionary system of ICL's VME operating system; see ICL VME#QuickBuild
  • Dataphone Digital Service or Digital Data System, types of leased line
  • Digital Data Storage, a storage tape format related to Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
  • Dimensional Data Storage
  • DirectDraw Surface, .dds texture files
  • Dynamic digital signage

Medicine

  • Dapsone, also known as diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS), an antibiotic commonly used for the treatment of leprosy
  • Doctor of Dental Surgery, a professional dental degree
  • Dopamine dysregulation syndrome, a condition connected with treatment for Parkinson's disease
  • Drug delivery systems, how drugs are delivered to relevant areas or tissues

Other uses in science and technology

  • Dark dune spot, a feature of the Martian landscape
  • Deflation Detection System, on motor vehicle tires
  • Dry deck shelter, a module that allows divers easy exit and entrance while a submarine is submerged

Other uses

  • Dewey Decimal Classification, often called the Dewey Decimal System
  • Direct Delivery Scheme, of the Society of Independent Brewers
  • Danaher Death Squad, a former submission grappling team.