DP may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theatre

* ''

Danny Phantom ''Danny Phantom'' is an American animated paranormal superhero action adventure television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. It premiered on April 3, 2004, immediately after the 2004 Kids' Choice Awards, and concluded on August ...

'', an animated television series *

David Production is a Japanese animation studio founded in September 2007 by former Gonzo producers Kōji Kajita and Taito Okiura, and is based in Nishitōkyō, Tokyo. Notable works from the studio include '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', '' Cells at Work!'', t ...

, a Japanese animation studio *

Director of photography The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

, a job in filmmaking *

Digital Playground Digital Playground Inc. is an American independent pornographic film studio, headquartered in Burbank, California. It has been called one of the five biggest porn studios and, in 2006, was described by Reuters as one of the handful of studios th ...

, an American pornographic movie studio *

Dixon Place Dixon Place is a theater organization in New York City dedicated to the development of works-in-progress from a broad range of performers and artists. It exists to serve the creative needs of artists—emerging, mid-career and established—who ...

, a theater organization in New York City * '' D.P.'', a South Korean series

Music

Daft Punk Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. They achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement, combining house music, funk, disco, tech ...

, an electronic band * Dead Poetic, a music group *

Deep Purple Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical style has varied throughout their career. Originally for ...

, a rock music group *

Dominant parallel Parallel and counter parallel chords are terms derived from the German (''Parallelklang'', ''Gegenparallelklang'') to denote what is more often called in English the "relative", and possibly the "counter relative" chords. In Hugo Riemann ...

Drowning Pool Drowning Pool is an American rock band formed in Dallas, Texas, in 1996. The band was named after the 1975 film '' The Drowning Pool''. Since its formation, the band has consisted of guitarist C.J. Pierce, drummer Mike Luce and bassist Stevie ...

, an American heavy metal music group * ''dp'' (album), a 2005 album by Daniel Powter

Other media

* ''

Daily Pennsylvanian ''The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.'' is the independent student media organization of the University of Pennsylvania. The DP, Inc. publishes ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' newspaper, ''34th Street'' magazine, and ''Under the Button'' satirical pu ...

'', the University of Pennsylvania's student newspaper *

Deadpool Deadpool is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in ''New Mutants'' #98 (December 1990). In his comic book appearances, Deadpool is ...

, 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 Doom Patrol is a superhero team from DC Comics. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in ''My Greatest Adventure'' #80 (June 1963), and was created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney, along with artist Bruno Premiani. Doom Patrol has appear ...

'', a comic book series *

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, hist ...

, author; used "D. P." as a pseudonym * Dark Prince from

Clash Royale ''Clash Royale'' is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Supercell. The game combines elements from collectible card games, tower defense, and multiplayer online battle arena. The game was released globally on March 2, ...

Businesses and organizations

Democratic Party (disambiguation) Democratic Party and similar terms may refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party * Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally * Democratic Party of Ivo ...

, a name shared by many political parties *

Democrazia Proletaria Proletarian Democracy (, DP) was a far-left political party in Italy. History 1970s DP was founded in 1975 as a joint electoral front of the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP), Workers Vanguard (AO) and the "Workers Movement for Socialism" (MLS), ...

, a former left-wing political party in Italy *

The Detroit Partnership The Detroit Partnership (DP), known as The Detroit Project until 2008, is a student-run organization at the University of Michigan with the mission of connecting the Ann Arbor and Detroit communities through active service-learning. Each year, th ...

, a service-learning organization at the University of Michigan * Deutsche Partei, a German political party *

Devon Preparatory School Devon Preparatory School is a Catholic all-male college preparatory school in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania, in the United States, with a Devon postal address. - The plot of land is not labeled, but it corresponds witthe school address "363 ...

(Devon Prep), an American private school *

Distributed Proofreaders Distributed Proofreaders (commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a web-based project that supports the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors. the site ...

, an organisation related to Project Gutenberg *

Dorset Police Dorset Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Dorset in South West England, which includes the largely rural area covered by Dorset (unitary authority), Dorset Council, and the urban conurbation of Bournem ...

, the territorial police force responsible for policing Dorset, England *

First Choice Airways First Choice Airways Limited (originally Air 2000 Limited) was a British charter airline of European tour operator TUI Travel plc, based in Crawley, England until its merger with Thomsonfly to form Thomson Airways (now TUI Airways) in 2008. It ...

, formerly

Air 2000 First Choice Airways Limited (originally Air 2000 Limited) was a British charter airline of European tour operator TUI Travel plc, based in Crawley, England until its merger with Thomsonfly to form Thomson Airways (now TUI Airways) in 2008. It ...

(IATA airline code DP 1987-2008) *

Pobeda Airlines Pobeda LCC () is an ultra low-cost airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeroflot, the flag carrier and largest airline of Russia. It operates scheduled services to domestic and international destinations mainly from its airline hub of Vnuk ...

(IATA airline code DP since 2014) *

Digipen Institute of Technology DigiPen Institute of Technology is a private for-profit university in Redmond, Washington. It also has campuses in Singapore and Bilbao, Spain. DigiPen offers bachelor's and master's degree programs. History In 1988, DigiPen was founded by ...

DP World DP World is a multinational logistics company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It specialises in cargo logistics, port terminal operations, maritime services and free trade zones. Formed in 2005 by the merger of Dubai Ports Authority and ...

, a logistics company based in the United Arab Emirates *

Labour Party (Lithuania) The Labour Party (, DP) is a populist centre-left political party in Lithuania. The party was founded in 2003 by the Russian-born millionaire businessman and member of Seimas Viktor Uspaskich. History Foundation and first government (2003� ...

, a political party in Lithuania *

Paon DP is a Japanese video game developer. The company was founded in August 2004 as DP Inc. and merged with Paon Corporation, Ltd. in March 2015 to form Paon DP. Paon Corporation was founded on January 20, 1999. Through a partnership with Nintendo, ...

, a Japanese video game developer

Law

Death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...

Due process Due process of law is application by the state of all legal rules and principles pertaining to a case so all legal rights that are owed to a person are respected. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual p ...

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing and software

* DP (complexity), or difference polynomial time, a computational complexity class *

Data processing Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information. Data processing is a form of ''information processing'', which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an o ...

Software design pattern In software engineering, a software design pattern or design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in many contexts in software design. A design pattern is not a rigid structure to be transplanted directly into s ...

, a reusable solution to a common problem in software design *

Device-independent pixel A device-independent pixel (also: ''density-independent pixel'', ''dip'', ''dp'') is a unit of length. A typical use is to allow mobile device software to scale the display of information and user interaction to different screen sizes. The abstra ...

, a unit representing an abstraction of a pixel for use by an application *

Digital Performer Digital Performer is a digital audio workstation and music sequencer software package published by Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) of Cambridge, Massachusetts for the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. Ancestry In 1984, Mark of the U ...

, an audio software package for the Apple Macintosh and Windows *

DisplayPort DisplayPort (DP) is a digital interface used to connect a video source, such as a Personal computer, computer, to a display device like a Computer monitor, monitor. Developed by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), it can also car ...

, 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 Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Position reference sensors, combined with wind sensors, motion sensors and gyrocompas ...

, a computer-controlled system to maintain a vessel's position and heading

Mathematics

* Davis–Putnam algorithm, for checking the validity of a first-order logic formula *

Differential privacy Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematically rigorous framework for releasing statistical information about datasets while protecting the privacy of individual data subjects. It enables a data holder to share aggregate patterns of the group while ...

, a system for publicly sharing information while withholding information about individuals in the dataset *

Dirichlet process In probability theory, Dirichlet processes (after the distribution associated with Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet) are a family of stochastic processes whose realizations are probability distributions. In other words, a Dirichlet process is a pro ...

, a stochastic process corresponding to an infinite generalization of the

Dirichlet distribution In probability and statistics, the Dirichlet distribution (after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet), often denoted \operatorname(\boldsymbol\alpha), is a family of continuous multivariate probability distributions parameterized by a vector of pos ...

. * 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 place Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits, are specific digits within a number that is written in positional notation that carry both reliability and necessity in conveying a particular quantity. When presenting the outcome ...

s that a number is given to

Logic

* Disjunction property, a typical metalogical property of

intuitionistic In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism (opposed to preintuitionism), is an approach where mathematics is considered to be purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of f ...

theories A theory is a systematic and rational form of abstract thinking about a phenomenon, or the conclusions derived from such thinking. It involves contemplative and logical reasoning, often supported by processes such as observation, experimentation, ...

* Drinker's paradox, a theorem of classical

predicate logic First-order logic, also called predicate logic, predicate calculus, or quantificational logic, is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. First-order logic uses quantified variables ove ...

Medicine

Delusional parasitosis Delusional parasitosis (DP), also called delusional infestation, is a mental health condition where a person falsely believes that their body is infested with living or nonliving agents. Common examples of such agents include parasites, insects, o ...

, in which individuals incorrectly believe they are infested with parasites *

Depersonalization disorder Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR, DDD) is a mental disorder in which the person has persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization and/or derealization. Depersonalization is described as feeling disconnected or detached fro ...

, 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

* Unit of observation#Data point, 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 (sportscaster), 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 * Pickled cucumber#Kosher dill, 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