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- (medicine, usually used attributively) Initialism of double strength.
- (medicine) Initialism of Down syndrome.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Initialism of Douglas Score (point ranking for deer antlers).
- (law enforcement) Initialism of detective sergeant; a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (video games) Clipping of Nintendo DS.
- (slang, UK) Initialism of directing staff.
- (logic) Initialism of disjunctive syllogism.
- 2004 August, J. L. Schellenberg, “The Atheist’s Free Will Offence”, in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, volume 56, № 1, pages 11-12:
- Let ‘F’ stand for the state of affairs that consists in finite persons possessing and exercising free will. Let ‘p’ stand for ‘God exists’; ‘q’ for ‘F obtains’; ‘r’ for ‘F poses a serious risk of evil’; and ‘s’ for ‘There is no option available to God that counters F.’ With this in place, the argument may be formalized as follows:
(1) [(p & q) & r] → s Premiss
(2) ~s Premiss
(3) ~[(p & q) & r] 1, 2 MT
(4) ~(p & q) v ~r 3 DM
(5) r Premiss
(6) ~(p & q) 4, 5 DS
(7) ~p v ~q 6 DM
(3) follows from the conjunction of (1) and (2) by modus tollens; De Morgan’s law applied to (3) yields (4); (4) and (5) together lead to (6) by disjunctive syllogism; and another application of De Morgan’s law takes us from (6) to the final conclusion, according to which either God exists or there is free will (but not both).
- (music) Initialism of dal segno.
- Initialism of dear/darling son.
- 2011 March 17, Toby Young, “Mumsnet isn't representative of the 'squeezed middle'. It's just a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies”, in The Telegraph[1], archived from the original on 2011-03-20:
- You can get the general idea from a recent comment in response to a request from a mother for advice on where to send her DS (Darling Son) to school.
- (BDSM) Alternative form of D/s
- (sciences) Initialism of decision science.
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- Abbreviation of Discord.
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- Initialism of directeur sportif.
- Initialism of devoir surveillé.
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