DPA explained
DPA may refer to:
Organizations
Government and politics
Law
- Durable power of attorney
- Defensive patent aggregation, the practice of purchasing patents or patent rights
- Deferred prosecution agreement, a voluntary alternative to adjudication in which a prosecutor agrees to grant amnesty in exchange for the defendant agreeing to fulfill certain requirements
Laws
Computing
- Data presentation architecture, a skill-set that seeks to identify, locate, manipulate, format and present data
- Deterministic pushdown automaton
- Differential power analysis, a cryptographic attack
Entertainment
Science and technology
- D-Phenylalanine, an enkephalinase inhibitor and antidepressant
- Decipascal (dPa), a SI unit equivalent to one tenth of a pascal
- Diagnostic peritoneal aspiration, a surgical investigation to assess abdominal bleeding
- Diphenylamine, a chemical stabiliser used in homogeneous propellants to absorb the catalyst produced by the autocatalytic decomposition of propellants
- 9,10-Diphenylanthracene, an organic compound
- Dipicolinic acid, a chemical compound found in bacterial spores
- Dipicolylamine, an organic compound used as a chelating ligand
- 2,2'-Dipyridylamide an organic ion ligand.
- Docosapentaenoic acid, a group of fatty acids
- D-phenylalanine, a stereoisomer of the amino acid, phenylalanine
- Displacements per atom (dpa), in radiation material science, a measure of damage in nuclear materials
- 16-Dehydropregnenolone acetate (16-DPA), an intermediate in the production of many semisynthetic steroids
Other uses
