DS

DS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Video games

• Nintendo DS, handheld game console
• Deca Sports, a sports video game series
  • Deca Sports (video game), the first game of the series
• Double Spoiler, a game in the Touhou Project series
• Dark Souls, a series of action role-playing games
  • Dark Souls (video game), the first game in the series
• Death Stranding, an action game
• Don't Starve, a survival game

Music

• "D.S." (song), a 1995 song by Michael Jackson
• Dal segno (D.S.), a navigation marker in music notation

Organisations

• Committee for State Security (Bulgaria), a former Bulgarian secret service
• Democratici di Sinistra (Democrats of the Left), a former Italian political party
• Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka), a political party in Serbia
• Bureau of Diplomatic Security, in the US Department of State

Science and technology

• Dwarf spiral galaxy (dS)
• Darmstadtium (symbol Ds), a chemical element
• Data science
• Degree of substitution, relative density of substituent groups in a polymer
• Dielectric spectroscopy, measuring dielectric properties of medium
• Directional symmetry (time series)
• Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik, a class of Soviet satellites

Computing

• DS register, of X86 processor
• Avid DS, defunct editing and effects software
• Delegation Signer, DNSSEC record type
• DirectShow, Microsoft API
• Nintendo DS

Mathematics

• ds (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions
• De Sitter space (dS)

Medicine

• Down syndrome, a genetic disorder
• Duodenal switch, a weight-loss surgery

Transportation

• DS Automobiles, a French car marque
• Citroën DS Inside (2009), a concept car
• Citroën DS (1955-1975), a car model
• EasyJet Switzerland (IATA code: DS), an airline

Weapons

• 7.92 DS, a Polish-designed anti-tank ammunition type
• DS-39, Degtyaryova Stankovyi Model 1939, a Russian medium machine gun

Other uses

• Detective Sergeant, UK police rank
• Detective Superintendent, UK and Australian police rank
• Diodorus Siculus (D.S. or DS), a first-century BCE Greek historian
• Dominance and submission (D/s), a set of behaviors
• Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum ("Denzinger-Schönmetzer", DS), a book of Catholic dogma
• Different subject (DS), in switch-reference

See also

• "DS 21", a 1989 song by Jane Child from Jane Child
• All pages with titles containing DS
• All pages with titles beginning with DS
• D (disambiguation) (for Ds the plural of "D")