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 * Labour Party (Lithuania), a political party in Lithuania * 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

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