De

De


DE, de, or dE may refer to:

Human names

  • De (surname), a Bengali family name
  • de, a nobiliary particle

Places

  • Dé, Mali, a commune and town in Mali
  • De River, Mizoram, India
  • Germany (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
  • Delaware (United States postal symbol)
  • DE postcode area, for Derby and surrounding areas of England

Linguistics

  • De (Cyrillic) (Д, д), a letter in the Cyrillic script
  • German language (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code)
  • De (kana) (で, デ), a Japanese hiragana/katakana
  • de-, an English prefix conveying negation
  • De/ye(뎌,여)- (also "Ne" or "ku'lhe"), "yes" in Korean
  • De, the Latin word for "out"
  • Downward entailing, a linguistic expression that denotes a monotone decreasing function

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)

Science, technology, and mathematics

  • 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
  • Design engineer, engineer whose specialty is in design
  • 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

  • Condor Flugdienst, a German airline with IATA code DE
  • De (Chinese) (德), 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
  • Douwe Egberts, a coffee brand
  • Digital Extremes, a Canadian-operated computer and video game development studio

See also

  • Department of Education, a common government department

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