DP

DP may refer to:

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
 * Diversified Products, a defunct American manufacturer of exercise equipment
 * 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
 * Paon DP, a Japanese video game developer

Law

 * Death penalty
 * Due process

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
 * Developer Preview, an early release of a software product, provided to developers before the official launch, to test and optimize their applications with new features and APIs, ensuring compatibility and performance.

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
 * Double Penetration, a form of sex

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