# DE

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{{hatnote|On Wikipedia, DE may refer to Wikipedia:Disruptive editing or Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany.}}'''DE''', '''de''', or '''dE''' may refer to:
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==Human names==
* [De (surname)](/source/De_(surname)), a Bengali family name
* [Dé (footballer, 1940–1992)](/source/D%C3%A9_(footballer%2C_born_1940)), Ademar José Ribeiro, Brazilian football left-back
* [Dé (footballer, born 1998)](/source/D%C3%A9_(footballer%2C_born_1998)), Cledson Carvalho da Silva, Brazilian football forward
* de, a [nobiliary particle](/source/nobiliary_particle)

==Language and linguistics==
* [De (Cyrillic)](/source/De_(Cyrillic)) ({{script|Cyrl|Д, д}}), a letter in the Cyrillic script
* [German language](/source/German_language) (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code)
* [De (kana)](/source/De_(kana)) ({{lang|ja|で, デ}}), a Japanese hiragana/katakana
* [''de'' (interjection)](/source/De_(interjection)), Albanian interjection
* de-, an English [prefix](/source/prefix) denoting reversal, undoing, removing; intensifying; or from, off
* [Downward entailing](/source/Downward_entailing), in linguistic semantics, a property of a modifier that reduces the number or degree an expression

==Media and business==
* [Condor (airline)](/source/Condor_(airline)) (IATA code), a German airline
* [Daily Express](/source/Daily_Express), a British tabloid newspaper
* [Digital Extremes](/source/Digital_Extremes), a Canadian-operated computer and video game development studio
* [Douwe Egberts](/source/Douwe_Egberts), a coffee brand
* [John Deere](/source/John_Deere) (NYSE stock ticker symbol), an American machinery manufacturer

==Military==
* [Defence Estates](/source/Defence_Estates), an agency of the UK Ministry of Defence
* [Desert Eagle](/source/Desert_Eagle), a large-caliber semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Magnum Research
* [Destroyer escort](/source/Destroyer_escort) (US Navy hull classification symbol)

==Places==
* [Dé, Mali](/source/D%C3%A9%2C_Mali), a commune and town in Mali
* [De River](/source/De_River), Mizoram, India
* DE, abbreviation for the U.S. State of [Delaware](/source/Delaware), used by the United States Postal Service and others
* [DE postcode area](/source/DE_postcode_area), for Derby and surrounding areas of England
* [Germany](/source/Germany) (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
** [.de](/source/.de), the ccTLD for Germany

==Science, technology, and mathematics==
* [Design engineer](/source/Design_engineer), engineer whose specialty is design
* [Desktop environment](/source/Desktop_environment), a graphical user interface commonly based on a desktop metaphor
* [Dextrose equivalent](/source/Dextrose_equivalent), the relative sweetness of sugars
* [Diatomaceous earth](/source/Diatomaceous_earth), a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock mineral
* [Differential equation](/source/Differential_equation), an equation which derivatives of a function appear as variables
* [Differential evolution](/source/Differential_evolution), a method of mathematical optimization
* [Doctor of Engineering](/source/Doctor_of_Engineering), a degree equivalent to a Ph.D. in engineering
* [Dwarf elliptical galaxy](/source/Dwarf_elliptical_galaxy) (dE), in astronomy
* [Dynamics Explorer](/source/Dynamics_Explorer), a NASA satellite mission
* [Haplogroup DE (Y-DNA)](/source/Haplogroup_DE_(Y-DNA)), a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup in genetics
* [ΔE (color space)](/source/%CE%94E_(color_space)) (dE), a mathematical measurement of the distance between two points in a Lab color space

==Other uses==
* [''De'' (Chinese)](/source/De_(Chinese)), a concept of integrity in Daoism and virtue in Confucianism
* [Defensive end](/source/Defensive_end), a position in American and Canadian football
* [Distance education](/source/Distance_education), studying through a correspondence course
* ''De'', a scale degree in [tonic sol-fa](/source/tonic_sol-fa) (sharpened form of ''doh'')
* Maluku ([vehicle registration](/source/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Indonesia) prefix DE)

==See also==
* [Department of Education](/source/Department_of_Education), a common government department

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