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, an American pornographic movie studio * Dixon Place, 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 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

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 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), a political party in Lithuania * Paon DP, 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 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, 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 places 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 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 c ...

s that lie at the base of a hair follicle *

Diphallia Diphallia, penile duplication (PD), diphallic terata, or diphallasparatus is an extremely rare developmental abnormality in which a male is born with two Human penis, penises. The first reported case was by Johannes Jacob Wecker in 1609. Its occu ...

, in which a male is born with two penises *

Disopyramide Disopyramide ( INN, trade names Norpace and Rythmodan) is an antiarrhythmic medication used in the treatment of ventricular tachycardia. It is a sodium channel blocker and is classified as a Class 1a anti-arrhythmic agent. Disopyramide has a neg ...

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 In statistics, a unit of observation is the unit described by the data that one analyzes. A study may treat groups as a unit of observation with a country as the unit of analysis, drawing conclusions on group characteristics from data collected a ...

, a unit of measurement or observation *

Diametral pitch A gear or gearwheel is a rotating machine element, machine part typically used to transmit rotation, rotational motion and/or torque by means of a series of teeth that engage with compatible teeth of another gear or other part. The teeth can ...

, 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 structural unit, 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 polymeriza ...

, 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, Head (linguistics), headed, in this case, by the determin ...

, in linguistics * Diffraction pattern, 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 are published flight procedures followed by aircraft on an IFR flight plan immediately after takeoff from an airport. SIDs are one of the two types of departure procedures (DP); the other type being Ob ...

procedure, an outbound procedure for aircraft *

Diphosgene Diphosgene is an organic chemical compound with the formula ClCO2CCl3. This colorless liquid is a valuable reagent in the synthesis of organic compounds. Diphosgene is related to phosgene and has comparable toxicity, but is more conveniently hand ...

, also called as DP for a chemical warfare agent *

Discursive psychology Discursive psychology (DP) is a form of discourse analysis that focuses on psychological themes in talk, text, and images. As a counter to mainstream psychology's treatment of discourse as a "mirror" for people's expressions of thoughts, intenti ...

, a form of discourse analysis

In sport

* Deportivo Pereira, a Colombian soccer team * Designated player (softball), 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 Le ...

, in baseball *

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

, 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 Deepika Padukone (; born 5 January 1986) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi films. She is India's highest-paid actress, as of 2023, and List of awards and nominations received by Deepika Padukone, her accolades include thre ...

, Indian film actress, often referred to by the acronym DP * Delegable proxy, a form of voting *

Delivery point In a Mail, postal system, a delivery point (sometimes DP) is a single mailbox or other place at which mail is delivered. It differs from a address (geography), street address, in that each address may have several delivery points, such as an apart ...

, in postal systems *

Depersonalization Depersonalization is a dissociative phenomenon characterized by a subjective feeling of detachment from oneself, manifesting as a sense of disconnection from one's thoughts, emotions, sensations, or actions, and often accompanied by a feeling of ...

, 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, Canada and Australia and a gherkin ( ) in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, and New Zealand – is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been Pickling, pickled in ...

, a type of pickled cucumber *

Displaced person Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) 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 perse ...

, 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 In accounting, a down payment (also called a deposit in British English) is an initial up-front partial payment for the purchase of expensive goods or services such as a car or a house. It is usually paid in cash or equivalent at the time of fin ...

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