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DP may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
[edit]Film, television, and theatre
[edit]- Danny Phantom, an animated television series
- David Production, a Japanese animation studio
- Director of photography, a job in filmmaking
- Digital Playground, an American pornographic movie studio
- Dixon Place, a theater organization in New York City
- D.P., a South Korean series
Music
[edit]- Daft Punk, an electronic band
- Dead Poetic, a music group
- Deep Purple, a rock music group
- Dominant parallel
- Drowning Pool, an American heavy metal music group
- dp (album), a 2005 album by Daniel Powter
Other media
[edit]- Daily Pennsylvanian, the University of Pennsylvania's student newspaper
- Deadpool, a Marvel Comics comic book character
- Display picture or avatar, in gaming and online, a graphical representation of a user or their character
- Doom Patrol, a comic book series
- H. G. Wells, author; used "D. P." as a pseudonym
- Dark Prince from Clash Royale
Businesses and organizations
[edit]- Democratic Party (disambiguation), a name shared by many political parties
- Democrazia Proletaria, a former left-wing political party in Italy
- The Detroit Partnership, a service-learning organization at the University of Michigan
- Deutsche Partei, a German political party
- Devon Preparatory School (Devon Prep), an American private school
- Distributed Proofreaders, an organisation related to Project Gutenberg
- Dorset Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Dorset, England
- First Choice Airways, formerly Air 2000 (IATA airline code DP 1987-2008)
- Pobeda Airlines (IATA airline code DP since 2014)
- Digipen Institute of Technology
- DP World, a logistics company based in the United Arab Emirates
- Paon DP, a Japanese video game developer
Law
[edit]Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Computing and software
[edit]- DP (complexity), or difference polynomial time, a computational complexity class
- Data processing
- Software design pattern, a reusable solution to a common problem in software design
- Device-independent pixel, a unit representing an abstraction of a pixel for use by an application
- Digital Performer, an audio software package for the Apple Macintosh and Windows
- DisplayPort, a computer display interface specification
- Double Parity, as used in RAID-DP, a non-standard implementation of RAID
- Dual processors, a computing component with two independent processing units
- Dynamic positioning, a computer-controlled system to maintain a vessel's position and heading
- Developer Preview, an early release of a software product, provided to developers before the official launch, to test and optimize their applications with new features and APIs, ensuring compatibility and performance.
Mathematics
[edit]- Davis–Putnam algorithm, for checking the validity of a first-order logic formula
- Differential privacy, a system for publicly sharing information while withholding information about individuals in the dataset
- Dirichlet process, a stochastic process corresponding to an infinite generalization of the Dirichlet distribution.
- Dynamic programming, a method for solving a complex problem by breaking it down into a collection of simpler subproblems, used in several fields
- Number of decimal places that a number is given to
Logic
[edit]- Disjunction property, a typical metalogical property of intuitionistic theories
- Drinker's paradox, a theorem of classical predicate logic
Medicine
[edit]- Delusional parasitosis, in which individuals incorrectly believe they are infested with parasites
- Depersonalization disorder, a state of persistently feeling detached and/or out of one's body
- Dermal papilla, a cluster of mesenchymal cells that lie at the base of a hair follicle
- Diphallia, in which a male is born with two penises
- Disopyramide
Weapons
[edit]- Degtyaryov machine gun (Degtyarova pekhotnyi), a Soviet machine gun
- Drill purpose rifle, a rifle that has been altered so that it can be used for drill purposes only
- Dual purpose gun, a naval artillery mounting designed to engage both surface and air targets
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Data point, a unit of measurement or observation
- Diametral pitch, the ratio of the number of teeth in a gear to its pitch diameter
- Degree of polymerization, the number of units in an average polymer chain at a given time during a reaction
- Determiner phrase, in linguistics
- Diffraction pattern, in wave mechanics
- Diffusion pump, a type of vacuum pump
- Standard instrument departure procedure, an outbound procedure for aircraft
- Diphosgene, also called as DP for a chemical warfare agent
- Discursive psychology, a form of discourse analysis
- Double Penetration, a form of sex
In sport
[edit]- Deportivo Pereira, a Colombian soccer team
- Designated player (softball), a softball batter
- Designated Player Rule, in Major League Soccer
- Double play, in baseball
- Daytona Prototype, a type of racing car used in the Rolex Sports Car Series and United SportsCar Championship
- Dude Perfect, a trick shot conglomerate
- Dan Patrick, in broadcasting
Other uses
[edit]- Deepika Padukone, Indian film actress, often referred to by the acronym DP
- Delegable proxy, a form of voting
- Delivery point, in postal systems
- Depersonalization, a state of feeling detached and/or out of one's body
- Depository participant, an agent of the depository, in Indian banking
- Dill pickle, a type of pickled cucumber
- Displaced person, WWII term for person forced to leave home region due to invasion
- Divine Principle, the main theological book of the Unification Church
- Donkey punch, slang for a sexual practice
- Double penetration, a variant of group sex
- Down payment
- Dr. Pepper, a type of carbonated soft drink
- Station code for Depok railway station
See also
[edit]- DPS (disambiguation)
- Dawn patrol (disambiguation)
- ₯, symbol for currency Greek drachma
- ∂P, an abbreviation for differentiable programming