DFA

DFA may refer to:

Directory of Financial Advisers, DFA a private directory of Financial Advisers in New Zealand

Contents

1 Mathematics, science, and technology
2 Finance
3 Government and politics
4 Entertainment
5 Other uses

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

Data-flow analysis, a technique for gathering information about the possible set of values calculated at various points in a computer program
Deterministic finite automaton, a finite state machine accepting finite strings of symbols
Differential fault analysis, in cryptography, a type of side channel attack
Dual Factor Authentication

Engineering

Design for All, as a design philosophy
Design for Assembly, manufacturing improvement to allow faster or automated assembly or assembly with fewer parts

Science

Descent from antiquity, the process of establishing a generation-by-generation descent of living persons
Direct fluorescent antibody, a medical test
Humid continental climate with hot summer (designated Dfa), in climate classification

Statistics

Detrended fluctuation analysis, a variation of the Hurst Exponent technique, used in the analysis of fractal time series
Discriminant function analysis, a classification procedure

Finance

Dimensional Fund Advisors, in finance
Dynamic Financial Analysis, in finance
Directory of Financial Advisers, DFA a private directory of Financial Advisers in New Zealand
Dodd-Frank Act, a US federal law signed in 2010

Government and politics

Dairy Farmers of America, in agriculture
Democracy for America, a progressive political action committee in the United States
Department of Foreign Affairs, an executive office of a sovereign state that helps form its foreign policy
Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a nonprofit organization

Entertainment

Gaming

Death From Above, a jump-jet attack tactic in the BattleTech game universe

Music

Death from Above 1979, a Toronto based Canadian dance-punk/noise rock duo in the 2000s
DFA (Italian rock band), an Italian progressive rock band from Verona, Italy
DFA Records, an independent record label and production team
D.F.A., a Canadian crossover thrash group from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Dm minor chord (root D, minor third F, perfect fifth A)

Sports

Designated for assignment in baseball
Darwin Football Association, an Australian rules football league in Tasmania
Dominica Football Association, the governing body of football in Dominica

Other uses

Design For All, produced for the Target Corporation
Doctor of Fine Arts, an academic degree
John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School ("Davidson Fine Arts"), in Augusta, Georgia

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