DES

1. data encryption standard
2. diethylstilbestrol

DES may mean:

• Data Encryption Standard, a deprecated cryptographic block cipher that falls to brute force attacks due to its short 56-bit key
• Diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen developed to supplement a woman's natural estrogen production
• Delivered Ex Ship, an Incoterm
• Deep Ecliptic Survey, an astronomy project to find Kuiper belt objects
• Department of Education and Science, a former department in the United Kingdom government
• Detached eddy simulation, a turbulence model used in computational fluid dynamics
• Discrete event simulation, a simulation that models a system by examining its changes as discrete events
• Drug-eluting stent, a device placed in coronary arteries to treat or prevent heart attacks
• Discrete event system, a system with state changes driven by discrete events
• Diffuse esophageal spasm, a condition resulting from a disorder of the esophagus
• The Dark Energy Survey, a proposed survey of part of the Southern sky to determine cosmology parameters

DES or Des may also be:

• The IATA airport code for Desroches Airport
• A shortened form of the names Desmond and Desiree
• Discipline Economiche e Sociali (Economics and Social Sciences); a degree course in economics held at Bocconi University.
• The musical note D♭, in German nomenclature

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Dansk (Danish)
abbr. - undervisningsministeriet, datakrypteringsstandard
n. - diethylstilbestrol

Français (French)
abbr. - (abrév = data encryption standard) norme/standard de cryptage de donnés, (abrév = départment of Education and Science) (GB) ministère de l'Éducation
n. - diéthylstilbestrol

Deutsch (German)
abbr. - DES, Standarddatenverschlüsselung
n. - Diäthylstilbestrol

Ελληνική (Greek)
abbr. - (Η/Υ) πρότυπο κρυπτογράφησης δεδομένων

Español (Spanish)
abbr. - (informática) algoritmo de codificación estándar
n. - (quím) dietilestrilbestrol

Svenska (Swedish)
abbr. - (Data Encryption Standard) standard för kodning av data

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
目的地船上交货条件, 数据交换系统, 教育与科学部

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - 目的地船上交貨條件, 資料交換系統, 教育與科學部
n. - 目的地船上交貨條件, 資料交換系統, 教育與科學部

한국어 (Korean)
abbr. - 데이터 암호화 규격
n. - 디에틸스틸베스트롤 (합성 여성 호르몬의 일종)

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(اختصار) نظام تشفير البيانات‏

עברית (Hebrew)
abbr. - ‮מחלקת החינוך והמדע בבריטניה (לשעבר)‬
n. - ‮אסטרוגן מלאכותי ללא סטרואידים המשמש בעיקר לטיפול בתסמיני היפסקות המחזור‬

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