<!--This is NOT a listing of all items with initials D P. If the article does not indicate in its text that the subject is known as "DP", it should not be listed here!-->

DP may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theatre

  • Danny Phantom, an animated television series
  • David Production, a Japanese animation studio
  • Digital Playground, an American pornographic movie studio
  • Director of photography, a job in filmmaking
  • Dixon Place, a theater organization in New York City
  • D.P., a South Korean television series

<!--Do not add entries that are not commonly known by these letters -->

Music

  • Daft Punk, an electronic band
  • Dead Poetic, a music group
  • Deep Purple, a rock music group
  • Dominant parallel, a type of chord
  • dp (album), a 2005 album by Daniel Powter
  • Drowning Pool, an American heavy metal music group

<!--Do not add entries that are not commonly known by these letters -->

Other media

  • The Daily Pennsylvanian, the University of Pennsylvania's student newspaper
  • Dark Prince from Clash Royale
  • 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
  • Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, a video game
  • Seasons of the Pokémon anime based on the video game:
  • Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
  • Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension
  • Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles
  • Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors
  • Dragon Punch, a move in many fighting video games

<!--Do not add entries that are not commonly known by these letters -->

Businesses and organizations

  • Democratic Party, 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<!--From https://www.devonprep.com/ - see the heading "Support DP" which means "Devon Prep" -->
  • DigiPen Institute of Technology, a university in Redmond, Washington
  • Distributed Proofreaders, an organisation related to Project Gutenberg
  • Dorset Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Dorset, England
  • DP World, a logistics company based in the United Arab Emirates
  • First Choice Airways, formerly Air 2000 (IATA airline code DP 1987–2008)
  • Labour Party (), a political party in Lithuania
  • Paon DP, a Japanese video game developer
  • Pobeda Airlines (IATA airline code DP since 2014)

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
  • Decimal places, a particular number of digits in positional notation that convey a specific quantity
  • 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

Logic

  • Disjunction property, a typical metalogical property of intuitionistic theories
  • Drinker paradox, a theorem of classical predicate logic

Medicine

  • Delusional parasitosis, in which individuals incorrectly believe they are infested with parasites
  • Depersonalization, a state of 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, a chemical compound

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
  • Degree of polymerization, the number of units in an average polymer chain at a given time during a reaction
  • Determiner phrase, in linguistics
  • Diametral pitch, the ratio of the number of teeth in a gear to its pitch diameter
  • Diffraction pattern, in wave mechanics
  • Diffusion pump, a type of vacuum pump
  • Diphosgene, also called as DP for a chemical warfare agent
  • Discursive psychology, a form of discourse analysis
  • Standard instrument departure procedure, an outbound procedure for aircraft

In sport

  • Dan Patrick, an American sportscaster
  • Daytona Prototype, a type of racing car used in the Rolex Sports Car Series and United SportsCar Championship
  • Deportivo Pereira, a Colombian soccer team
  • Designated player, a softball batter
  • Designated Player Rule, in Major League Soccer
  • Detroit Pistons, National Basketball Association
  • Double play, in baseball
  • Dude Perfect, a trick shot conglomerate

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
  • Depok railway station, Indonesia, station code
  • 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
  • South Sulawesi (vehicle registration prefix DP)

See also

  • DPS (disambiguation)
  • Dawn patrol (disambiguation)
  • ₯, symbol for currency Greek drachma
  • ∂P, an abbreviation for differentiable programming