DES

(Computers) American standard for encoding data that uses a private key algorithm (encodes data in a manner that is extremely difficult to crack)

DES may mean:Data Encryption Standard, a deprecated cryptographic block cipher that falls to brute force attacks due to its short 56-bit keyDiethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen developed to supplement a woman's natural estrogen productionDelivered Ex Ship, an IncotermDeep Ecliptic Survey, an astronomy project to find Kuiper belt objectsDepartment of Education and Science, a former department in the United Kingdom governmentDetached eddy simulation, a turbulence model used in computational fluid dynamicsDiscrete event simulation, a simulation that models a system by examining its changes as discrete eventsDrug-eluting stent, a device placed in coronary arteries to treat or prevent heart attacksDiscrete event system, a system with state changes driven by discrete eventsDiffuse esophageal spasm, a condition resulting from a disorder of the esophagusThe Dark Energy Survey, a proposed survey of part of the Southern sky to determine cosmology parameters
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Noun
1. a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
(synonym) diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol
(hypernym) estrogen, oestrogen
2. synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy
(synonym) diethylstilbesterol, stilbesterol
(hypernym) nonsteroid, nonsteroidal

n. Des Moines, capital of the state of Iowa

university post-graduate degree

art. the, definite article used to specify one person or item in particular (Grammar)

prep. from

pref. un

n. thimble