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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
DES
noun
1: a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry [syn: {diethylstilbestrol}, {diethylstilboestrol}, {stilbestrol}, {stilboestrol}]
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 [syn: {diethylstilbesterol}, {stilbesterol}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
DES {Data Encryption Standard}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
DES Data Encryption Standard (cryptography, NIST, IBM)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
DES Destination End System
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