DE


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DE, de, or dE may refer to:

Human names

Places

  • Dé, Mali, a commune and town in Mali
  • De River, Mizoram, India
  • Germany (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
    • .de, the ccTLD for Germany
  • 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 (interjection)
  • de-, an English prefix conveying negation
  • Downward entailing, a linguistic expression that denotes a monotone decreasing function

Military

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

See also

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