DPA
DPA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, including:
Companies and associations
- Danish Pro Audio, the predecessor company of DPA Microphones, a manufacturer of microphones
- Dominique Perrault Architecture French architecture agency http://www.perraultarchitecte.com/
- Dartmoor Preservation Association, a group which monitors development on Dartmoor in South West England
- Data Publishers Association, industry body for the directory and data publishing and search sector
- Defence Procurement Agency, an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence
- Dental Professionals Association, a trade union supporting and representing primary dental care in the UK
- Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German News Agency), founded 1949 in Germany, a major worldwide media service
- Drug Policy Alliance, the biggest anti-drug war advocacy group in the United States
- Dubai Ports Authority, now merged to Dubai Ports World
- The Association for Promotion of Digital Broadcasting (Dpa in short) in Japan
- Deaf Pilots Association (DPA), an organization of deaf aviators in the United States
Computers and data processing
Entertainment
Finance
- Down Payment Assistance, special type of home loan
Government
Medical
Political parties
Science and technology
- Destructive physical analysis, an analysis performed to verify the fabrication standards of high reliability electrical components
- Diphenylamine, a chemical stabiliser used in homogeneous propellants to absorb the catalyst produced by the autocatalytic decomposition of propellants
- Dipicolinic acid, a chemical compound found in bacterial spores
- Docosapentaenoic acid, a group of fatty acids
- 9,10-Diphenylanthracene, an organic compound
- Displacements per atom (dpa), a quantitative measure of the irradiation a material has undergone
Transport
Marine
- Designated Person Ashore, The person that ensures the safe operation of each ship and to provide a link between the Company and those on board.