DP may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theatre

* '' Danny Phantom'', an animated television series *

David Production is a Japanese animation studio founded in September 2007 and is based in Nishitōkyō, Tokyo. Notable works from the studio include ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', '' Cells at Work!'', and ''Fire Force''. Establishment The company was founded b ...

, 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 photographing or recording of a film, television production, music video or other live action piece. The cinematographer is the ch ...

, a job in filmmaking * Digital Playground, 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 ...

, 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. Widely regarded as one of the most influential acts in dance music history, they achieved popularity in the late 1990s as p ...

, an electronic band *

Dead Poetic Dead Poetic is an American rock band formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1997. Their most recent lineup consisted of vocalist Brandon Rike, guitarist Zach Miles, and drummer Jesse Sprinkle. They released three albums and a greatest hits album, '' The Fi ...

, a music group * Deep Purple, a rock music group * Dominant parallel *

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, bassist Stevie Benton, and drummer Mi ...

, 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, as well as five newslette ...

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

Deadpool Deadpool is an antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist/writer Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in '' New Mutants'' #98 (cover-dated Feb. 1991). Initially, De ...

, a Marvel Comics comic book character *

Display picture In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user or the user's character or persona. Avatars can be two-dimensional icons in Internet forums and other online communities, where they are also known as profile pictures, user ...

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 ...

'', a comic book series * H. G. Wells, author; used "D. P." as a pseudonym * Dan Patrick, American Sportscaster and radio personality, host of

The Dan Patrick Show ''The Dan Patrick Show'' is a syndicated radio and television sports talk show, hosted by former ESPN personality Dan Patrick. It is currently produced by Patrick and is syndicated to radio stations by Premiere Radio Networks, within and indep ...

. Universally known as DP according to Dan Hepp. *Dark Prince from

Clash Royale ''Clash Royale'' is a free-to-play 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 globall ...

Businesses and organizations

Democratic Party (disambiguation) Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa * Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea * Gabonese Democratic Party * D ...

, 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 The German Party (german: Deutsche Partei, DP) was a national-conservative political party in West Germany active during the post-war years. The party's ideology appealed to sentiments of German nationalism and nostalgia for the German Empire. H ...

, a German political party *

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. As of Marc ...

, an organisation related to Project Gutenberg *

Dorset Police Dorset Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Dorset in the south-west of England, which includes the largely rural area covered by Dorset Council, and the urban conurbation of Bournemouth, Christchurch ...

, 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 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 in Computer Science, Animation, Video Game ...

DP World DP World is an Emirati 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 Auth ...

, a logistics company based in the United Arab Emirates

Law

* Death penalty *

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

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 ...

Software design pattern In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. It is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into source or machine c ...

, 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 abstract ...

, 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 DisplayPort (DP) is a digital display interface developed by a consortium of PC and chip manufacturers and standardized by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is primarily used to connect a video source to a display device su ...

, a computer display interface specification * Double Parity, as used in RAID-DP, a non-standard implementation of RAID *

Dual processors A multi-core processor is a microprocessor on a single integrated circuit with two or more separate processing units, called cores, each of which reads and executes program instructions. The instructions are ordinary CPU instructions (such a ...

, 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, 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 realization (probability), realizations are probability distributions. In other words, a ...

, 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 \bolds ...

. *

Dynamic programming Dynamic programming is both a mathematical optimization method and a computer programming method. The method was developed by Richard Bellman in the 1950s and has found applications in numerous fields, from aerospace engineering to economics. I ...

, 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 known as the significant digits, ''precision'' or ''resolution'') of a number in positional notation are digits in the number that are reliable and necessary to indicate the quantity of something. If a number expre ...

s that a number is given to

Medicine

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

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

, a state of persistently feeling detached and/or out of one's body * Dermal papilla, a cluster of

mesenchymal cell Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) also known as mesenchymal stromal cells or medicinal signaling cells are multipotent stromal cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types, including osteoblasts (bone cells), chondrocytes (cartilage ce ...

s that lie at the base of a hair follicle * Diphallia, in which a male is born with two penises * Disopyramide

Weapons

Degtyaryov machine gun The Degtyaryov machine gun (russian: Пулемёт Дегтярёвa Пехотный, Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny literally: "Degtyaryov's infantry machine gun") or DP-27/DP-28 is a light machine gun firing the 7.62×54mmR cartridge that was ...

(''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 dual-purpose gun is a naval artillery weapon mount, mounting designed to engage both surface and air targets. Description Second World War-era capital ships had four classes of artillery: the heavy main battery, intended to engage opposing ba ...

, 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 degree of polymerization, or DP, is the number of monomeric units in a macromolecule or polymer or oligomer molecule. For a homopolymer, there is only one type of monomeric unit and the ''number-average'' degree of polymerization is given by D ...

, the number of units in an average polymer chain at a given time during a reaction *

Determiner phrase In linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase headed by a determiner such as ''many''. Controversially, many approaches, take a phrase like ''not very many apples'' to be a DP, headed, in this case, by the determiner ''many''. This i ...

, in linguistics *

Diffraction pattern Diffraction is defined as the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture. The diffracting object or aperture effectively becomes a s ...

, in wave mechanics *

Diffusion pump Diffusion pumps use a high speed jet of vapor to direct gas molecules in the pump throat down into the bottom of the pump and out the exhaust. They were the first type of high vacuum pumps operating in the regime of free molecular flow, where the ...

, a type of vacuum pump *

Standard instrument departure Standard instrument departure (SID) routes, also known as departure procedures (DP), are published flight procedures followed by aircraft on an Instrument flight rules, IFR flight plan immediately after takeoff from an airport. Introduction A SI ...

procedure, an outbound procedure for aircraft * Diphosgene, also called as DP for a

chemical warfare Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from nuclear warfare, biological warfare and radiological warfare, which together make up CBRN, the military a ...

agent

In sport

Deportivo Pereira Deportivo Pereira is a professional Colombian football team based in Pereira, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Hernán Ramírez Villegas stadium. History Early years While there are several am ...

, a Colombian soccer team *

Designated player (softball) Softball is a game Variations of baseball, similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the #Professional leagues, professional level. The game was fir ...

, a softball batter *

Designated Player Rule The Designated Player Rule, nicknamed the Beckham Rule, allows Major League Soccer franchises to sign up to three players that would be considered outside their salary cap (either by offering the player higher wages or by paying a transfer fee ...

, in Major League Soccer *

Double play In baseball and softball, a double play (denoted as DP in baseball statistics) is the act of making two outs during the same continuous play. Double plays can occur any time there is at least one baserunner and fewer than two outs. In Major Leag ...

, in baseball *

Daytona Prototype A Daytona Prototype is a type of sports prototype racing car developed specifically for the Grand American Road Racing Association's Rolex Sports Car Series as their top class of car, which replaced their main prototype racing class, specificall ...

, 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

Delegable proxy Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence. The representative may be another member of the same body, or external. A person so d ...

, a form of voting whereby some members of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to other members * Delivery point, in postal systems *

Depersonalization Depersonalization can consist of a detachment within the self, regarding one's mind or body, or being a detached observer of oneself. Subjects feel they have changed and that the world has become vague, dreamlike, less real, lacking in significa ...

, 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 pickled cucumber (commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and a gherkin in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand) is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or ...

, a type of pickled cucumber *

Displaced person Forced displacement (also forced migration) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, g ...

, a person who has been forced to leave his or her home or place of habitual residence * Divine Principle, the main theological book of the Unification Church * Donkey punch, slang for a sexual practice *

Double penetration Double penetration (sometimes called DP for short) is a sexual practice that consists of a person being simultaneously penetrated either in multiple orifices or in a single orifice by multiple body parts or other objects. Most commonly, it refers ...

, a variant of group sex *

Down payment Down payment (also called a deposit in British English), is an initial up-front partial payment for the purchase of expensive items/services such as a car or a house. It is usually paid in cash or equivalent at the time of finalizing the transactio ...

* Dr. Pepper, a type of carbonated soft drink * Station code for

Depok railway station Depok Station (DP) is a railway station located in Pancoran Mas, Pancoran Mas, Depok, West Java. This station commonly known as ''Depok Lama''. The station is one of the oldest station in Jakarta Metropolitan Area. At present it serves as a ...