DE, de, or dE may refer to:

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Human names

  • De (surname), a Bengali family name
  • Dé (footballer, 1940–1992), Ademar José Ribeiro, Brazilian football left-back
  • Dé (footballer, born 1998), Cledson Carvalho da Silva, Brazilian football forward
  • de, a nobiliary particle

Language and linguistics

  • De (Cyrillic) (), a letter in the Cyrillic script
  • German language (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code)
  • De (kana) (), a Japanese hiragana/katakana
  • de (interjection), Albanian interjection
  • de-, an English prefix denoting reversal, undoing, removing; intensifying; or from, off
  • Downward entailing, in linguistic semantics, a property of a modifier that reduces the number or degree an expression

Media and business

  • Condor (airline) (IATA code), a German airline
  • Daily Express, a British tabloid newspaper
  • Digital Extremes, a Canadian-operated computer and video game development studio
  • Douwe Egberts, a coffee brand
  • John Deere (NYSE stock ticker symbol), an American machinery manufacturer

Military

  • Defence Estates, an agency of the UK Ministry of Defence
  • Desert Eagle, a large-caliber semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Magnum Research
  • Destroyer escort (US Navy hull classification symbol)

Places

  • Dé, Mali, a commune and town in Mali
  • De River, Mizoram, India
  • DE, abbreviation for the U.S. State of Delaware, used by the United States Postal Service and others
  • DE postcode area, for Derby and surrounding areas of England
  • Germany (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
  • .de, the ccTLD for Germany

Science, technology, and mathematics

  • Design engineer, engineer whose specialty is design
  • Desktop environment, a graphical user interface commonly based on a desktop metaphor
  • Dextrose equivalent, the relative sweetness of sugars
  • Diatomaceous earth, a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock mineral
  • Differential equation, an equation which derivatives of a function appear as variables
  • Differential evolution, a method of mathematical optimization
  • Doctor of Engineering, a degree equivalent to a Ph.D. in engineering
  • Dwarf elliptical galaxy (dE), in astronomy
  • Dynamics Explorer, a NASA satellite mission
  • Haplogroup DE (Y-DNA), a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup in genetics
  • ΔE (color space) (dE), a mathematical measurement of the distance between two points in a Lab color space

Other uses

  • De (Chinese), a concept of integrity in Daoism and virtue in Confucianism
  • Defensive end, a position in American and Canadian football
  • Distance education, studying through a correspondence course
  • De, a scale degree in tonic sol-fa (sharpened form of doh)
  • Maluku (vehicle registration prefix DE)

See also

  • Department of Education, a common government department