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DP may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theatre

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Death penalty
• Due process

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing and software

• 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

• 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

• Disjunction property, a typical metalogical property of intuitionistic theories
• Drinker's paradox, a theorem of classical predicate logic

Medicine

• 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

• 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

• 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

In sport

• 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

• 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

• DPS (disambiguation)
• Dawn patrol (disambiguation)
• ₯, symbol for currency Greek drachma
• ∂P, an abbreviation for differentiable programming

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