DE
Appearance
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)
- .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
- 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
- De, a scale degree in tonic sol-fa (sharpened form of doh)
- John Deere, a company with NYSE stock ticker symbol "DE"
See also
- Department of Education, a common government department