# DP

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