DFS may refer to:

Brands and enterprises

  • Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, advertising agency, now Saatchi & Saatchi
  • DFS Furniture, a furniture retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland
  • DFS Group (Duty Free Shoppers), Hong Kong
  • DFS Program Exchange, a former syndicator of TV programs
  • Discover Financial Services, NYSE symbol
  • Deutsche Flugsicherung, an air traffic control company

Organizations

  • Department of Field Support, a UN department
  • Department of Financial Services (disambiguation)
  • Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi, India
  • Det frivillige Skyttervesen, the National Rifle Association of Norway
  • Deutsche Flugsicherung, the German air traffic control organisation
  • Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight)
  • Dirección Federal de Seguridad, Federal Direction of Security, Mexico
  • New York State Department of Financial Services

Science and technology

Computing

  • Depth-first search, an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures
  • Discrete Fourier series, the discrete version of Fourier series
  • Dynamic frequency scaling, 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 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 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

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  • Demand Flexibility Service, a demand response system for electricity supplies in the United Kingdom
  • DFS Kopernikus (Deutscher Fernmeldesatellit Kopernikus), a series of satellites
  • Digital Frequency Synthesizer, generation of different frequency from another in phase
  • Disease-free survival, a measure of the efficacy of medical treatment
  • Double Fourier sphere method in mathematics and geosciences

Other uses

  • Daily fantasy sports, a subset of fantasy sport games
  • Dorian Finney-Smith, American basketball player
  • Dumfriesshire, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code
  • Dynamite Fighting Show, a Romanian-based kickboxing promotion company