DPA

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DPA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, including:

• Danish Pedophile Association
• Danish Pro Audio, the predecessor company of DPA Microphones, a manufacturer of microphones
• Data Path Array is a Data Path Unit array as used e. g. for Reconfigurable Computing.
• Data Protection Act, a United Kingdom Act of Parliament to regulate the processing of information relating to individuals
• Defence Procurement Agency, an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
• Democratic Party of Albanians, an ethnic Albanian political party in the Republic of Macedonia
• Dental Practitioners' Association, a trade union representing dentists in the UK
• Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations
• Destructive parts analysis, an analysis performed to collect data on space-bound electrical components
• Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German News Agency), founded 1949 in Germany and is a major worldwide media service
• Diagnostic Peritoneal Aspiration, a surgical investigation to assess abdominal bleeding
• Differential power analysis, a cryptographic attack
• Diphenylamine, a chemical stabiliser used in homogeneous propellants to absorb the catalyst produced by the autocatalytic decomposition of propellants
• Displacements per atom (dpa), a quantitative measure of the irradiation a material has undergone
• Distributed Password Authentication
• Doctor of Public Administration, a terminal research degree in government
• Down Peninsula Audio, a record label
• Drug Policy Alliance is the biggest anti-drug war advocacy group in the United States
• Dubai Ports Authority, now merged to Dubai Ports World
• IATA code for DuPage Airport, located in West Chicago, Illinois

• David P. Anderson (born 1955), scientist at University of California, Berkeley, director of SETI@home and BOINC