DS
# DS

DS may refer to:

* Diodorus Siculus (D.S. or DS), a first-century BCE Greek historian
* D/s, short for dominance and submission
* Dunajská Streda, a town in Slovakia using the car registration DS
* Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum, book of Catholic dogma, abbreviated DS for "Denzinger-Schönmetzer"
* DS, linguistic glossing abbreviation for "different subject" in switch-reference
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, a popular Japanese manga series written by Koyoharu Gotōge

## Arts and entertainment

### Video games

* Nintendo DS, handheld game console
* Deca Sports, a sports video game series
   * Deca Sports, 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, 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, a navigation marker in music notation
* "DS 21", a 1989 song by Jane Child from Jane Child

## Government, law, and politics

* 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
* Detective Sergeant, UK police rank
* Detective Superintendent, UK and Australian police rank
* Bureau of Diplomatic Security, in the U.S. Department of State

## Science, technology, and mathematics

* 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 and telecommunications

* DS register of X86 processor
* Avid DS, editing and effects application
* Delegation Signer, DNSSEC record type
* DirectShow, Microsoft API
* Nintendo DS

### Mathematics

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

### Medicine

* Down syndrome, a medical condition
* Duodenal switch, a weight-loss surgery

## Transportation

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

## Weapons

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