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DFS

DFS is the initialism of depth-first search.

DFS is the initialism of daily fantasy sports.

DFS is the initialism of Discover Financial Services.

Meaning of depth-first search

Noun

depth-first search (countable and uncountable, plural depth-first searches)

  1. An algorithm for traversing a tree or graph where one starts at the root and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking.
    Synonyms:
    DFS

Noun capitalized: DFs

DFs

  1. (plural) plural of DF

Questions about DFS

What is DFS the initialism of?
DFS is the initialism of depth-first search.
What part of speech is DFS?
DFS is a noun.

Words near DFS in the dictionary

  1. DFO
  2. DFP
  3. DFPase
  4. DFPases
  5. DFPS
  6. DFS
  7. DFSG
  8. DFSP
  9. DFT
  10. dft.
  11. DFTBA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DFS (page history and authors); DFs (page history and authors); depth-first search (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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