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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  De- \De-\
     A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark,
     decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it
     is equivalent to Latin dis-apart, away; or sometimes to de.
     Cf. {Dis-}. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform,
     destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare,
     desolate, etc.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  DE
       n : a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
           {Delaware}, {Diamond State}, {First State}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  de
       
          <networking> The {country code} for Germany.
       
          (1999-01-27)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DE
       DatenElement (HBCI)
       
       

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