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DM, Dm, dm, or D.M. may stand for:
Academic titles
- Doctor of Management, an academic management degree
- Doctor of Medicine, an academic medical degree
- Doctor of Music, an academic music-performance degree, also known as D.M.A
- Doctor of Metaphysics, an academic degree in metaphysics
Arts and entertainment
Film, radio, and television
- Danger Mouse (TV series), a British animated television series
- WWDM, a radio station licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, United States
Gaming
- Deathmatch, a gameplay mode integrated into first-person shooter computer games
- Dungeon Master, the game designer, storyteller and referee in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
Music
- D minor, a minor scale or the chord on the musical note D
- Dance marathon, a multiple-day charity event on U.S. college campuses
- Death metal, a musical style evolving from thrash metal
- Depeche Mode, an English synthpop band formed in 1980
- Drum major, the leader of a marching band
Other media
In business and economics
- Deutsche Mark (1948–2002), the former official currency of Germany
- East German mark (1951–1990), initially Deutsche Mark, the former official currency of East Germany
- Developed market, those countries that are thought to be the most developed
- Direct mail, or advertising mail, delivery of advertising material to recipients of postal mail
- Direct market, the dominant distribution and retail network for North American comic books
- Direct marketing, a type of marketing sending messages directly to consumers
Companies and products
- Daily Mail, a British tabloid
- Digital Monolithic, a National Semiconductor prefix for their digital logic integrated circuits
- dm-drogerie markt, a German drugstore chain
- Dr. Martens, a brand of boots
- Maersk Air (IATA code DM), a former Danish airline which operated from 1969 until 2005
Military
- DM, a US Navy abbreviation for "light minelayer"
- Designated marksman, a soldier fulfilling the marksman role in an infantry squad
- Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Defense Munitions, sites are prefixed DM
Places
- Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean Sea (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code DM)
- .dm, the nation's country code top-level domain
- Des Moines, Iowa, the state capital
- Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, US
Science, technology, and mathematics
Computing
- Data mart, a specialized version of a data warehouse
- Data mining, searching large volumes of data for patterns
- Digital Monolithic, a National Semiconductor prefix for their digital logic integrated circuits
- Dimensional modeling, a set of techniques and concepts used in data warehouse design
Software
- DM (windowing system), a window system for AEGIS OS on Apollo/Domain workstations
- Device management, programs for automatically updating the software on mobile phone
- Device mapper, a component of the Linux kernel that supports logical volume management
- X display manager (program type), a graphical login manager
Medicine
- Degenerative myelopathy, a condition in dogs affecting the spinal cord
- Dextromethorphan, an anti-coughing drug found in many preparations
- Diabetes mellitus, a disease characterized by high blood sugar
- Difference due to memory, a neural activity effect
- Double minute, fragments of extrachromosomal DNA in human tumors
- Myotonic dystrophy (DM-1/2/3), a chronic muscle-wasting disease
- n-Decyl β-D-Maltopyranoside, a maltoside detergent used when purifying membrane proteins
- Dermatomyositis, an inflammatory systemic disorder affecting the skin, muscles, and other organs
Physics
- Dark matter, in cosmology, hypothetical non-luminous matter
- Dichroic mirror, a mirror with different transmittance or reflectance at two different wavelengths
- Dispersion measure, the amount of dispersion of radio waves by interstellar medium
- Dry matter, a measurement of the mass of something when completely dried
Other uses in science and technology
- Adamsite, a chemical agent used in riot control
- Data mile (DM), a radar-related unit of distance
- Deformable mirror (DM), a means of correcting aberrations in photonics applications
- Demineralisation (disambiguation), various processes affecting bones, teeth, soil, cocoons, and water
- Cantor's diagonal argument or method, a mathematical proof of the uncountability of real numbers
- Distributed morphology, a theoretical framework in linguistics
Other uses
- De minimis, a Latin legal term
- Defensive midfielder, an association football position
- Diis Manibus, a Latin epitaphial acronym
- Divemaster, in scuba diving
- Dungeon monitor, a safety role in BDSM
- SJ Dm3, and Dm, Swedish locomotives
See also
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