DFS

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
• 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
• Dumfriesshire, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code
• Dynamite Fighting Show, a Romanian-based kickboxing promotion company