DP explained
DP may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
Film, television, and theatre
Music
Other media
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
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
Logic
Medicine
Weapons
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
- Double Penetration, a form of sex
In sport
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