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DPA may refer to:
Organizations
- Dartmoor Preservation Association, a group which monitors development on Dartmoor in South West England
- Dental Professionals Association, a trade union supporting and representing primary dental care in the UK
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German News Agency), a news agency founded in 1949 in Germany
- DPA Microphones, a Danish manufacturer
- Drug Policy Alliance, an American anti-Drug-War advocacy group
- Dubai Ports Authority, merged with Dubai Ports International in 2005 to form DP World
Government and politics
- California Department of Personnel Administration
- Defence Procurement Agency, an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
- Defense Production Administration, a former independent agency of the United States government
- Democratic Party of Albanians, an ethnic Albanian political party in the Republic of Macedonia
- Democratic Progressive Alliance, an alliance of Indian political parties
- United Nations Department of Political Affairs
- Data Protection Authority, a role specified by EU General Data Protection Regulation
Law
- Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, another name for Assistant District Attorney
- Defensive patent aggregation, the practice of purchasing patents or patent rights
- Deferred prosecution agreement, a voluntary alternative to adjudication in which a prosecutor agrees to grant amnesty in exchange for the defendant agreeing to fulfill certain requirements
- Data Protection Act 1998, a United Kingdom Act of Parliament to regulate the processing of information relating to individuals
- Durable power of attorney
Computing
- Data presentation architecture, a skill-set that seeks to identify, locate, manipulate, format and present data
- Deterministic pushdown automaton
- Differential power analysis, a cryptographic attack
Entertainment
- Down Peninsula Audio, a record label
- Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!, a manga series
- Drag Point Average, the grading system used on the television show RuPaul's Drag U
Science and technology
- Decipascal (dPa), a SI unit equivalent to one tenth of a pascal
- Diagnostic peritoneal aspiration, a surgical investigation to assess abdominal bleeding
- Diphenylamine, a chemical stabiliser used in homogeneous propellants to absorb the catalyst produced by the autocatalytic decomposition of propellants
- 9,10-Diphenylanthracene, an organic compound
- Dipicolinic acid, a chemical compound found in bacterial spores
- Dipicolylamine, an organic compound used as a chelating ligand
- Docosapentaenoic acid, a group of fatty acids
- D-phenylalanine, a stereoisomer of the amino acid, phenylalanine
- Displacements per atom (dpa), in radiation material science, a measure of damage in nuclear materials
- 16-DPA (16-Dehydropregnenolone acetate). The progenitor for making laboratory steroids.
Other uses
- Doctor of Public Administration, a terminal research degree in government
- DuPage Airport (IATA code), an airport in West Chicago, DuPage County, Illinois, US
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