DA
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Da, DA, dA, DÄ and other variants may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- DA! (band), a Chicago post-punk band of the 1980s
- Da (play), a 1978 play by Hugh Leonard
- Da (film), a 1988 film based on the play
- Damon Amendolara, American sports talk radio host
- Daniel Amos, also known as D.A. and Dä, an American Christian rock band
- Dennis Armand Lucchesi, who recorded the song "Ready 'n' Steady" under the name "D.A."
- Destination America, television channel
- DeviantArt or DA, a website that focuses on art
- Dumbledore's Army, a group formed by Harry Potter in his 5th year to teach students defensive spells
- Jon Moxley, formerly Dean Ambrose in WWE, a wrestler
Degrees and licenses
[edit]- Diploma of Anesthesiology, a degree conferred by some medical institutions such as the Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Doctor of Arts, an academic degree
Organizations
[edit]- Da!, a Russian youth movement
- Debtors Anonymous
- Air Georgia, a Georgian airline (IATA code DA)
Politics and judiciary
[edit]- Da (political party), a defunct Israeli political party
- Defence Advisory Notice, a government demand in Australia and the UK not to publish or broadcast a specified news item
- Democratic Alliance (South Africa), a South African political party
- Democratic Awakening, East German political party
- Department of Agriculture (Philippines), an executive department
- Deutsche Alternative ("German Alternative"), a rightist group
- District attorney, (United States) chief prosecutor for a local government area, particularly a county
- Dreptate şi Adevăr a defunct alliance of parties in Romania
Places
[edit]- Da County, a division in Sichuan, China
- DA postcode area, a postcode area in England
- Da River or Black River, a river in China and northwestern Vietnam
- Dah, Ivory Coast, a village in Montagnes District, Ivory Coast, also spelt "Da"
Science and technology
[edit]Biology and medicine
[edit]- DA (chemotherapy), standard-dose cytarabine plus daunorubicin
- Deoxyanthocyanidin
- Domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by phytoplankton
- Donor-Acceptor
- Dopamine, a monoamine neurotransmitter
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Dalton (unit) (symbol Da), also called the unified atomic mass unit
- Deca- or da-, an SI prefix for a factor of 10
- Distribution amplifier, a device that accepts a single input signal and provides this same signal to multiple isolated outputs
- Double-action, a firearm operation mechanism in which the trigger both cocks and releases the hammer
- NZR DA class, a New Zealand diesel locomotive
- SJ Da, a Swedish electric locomotive
- Domain authority Domain Authority
Sports
[edit]- U.S. Soccer Development Academy, former United States soccer league
Other uses
[edit]- D.A. Wallach (born 1985), American musician and business executive
- Da (Javanese), a syllable in Javanese script
- Da. or Dòna, the honorific Mrs. in Occitan language
- Da Hoss, an American racehorse
- Dame of St Andrew, a discontinued award within the Order of Barbados
- Danish language (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code DA)
- Dearness allowance, cost of living allowance to government employees in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan
- Desk accessory, graphical programs
- Direct action (military), in special operations
- Disadvantage, an off-case argument used by the Negative team in a policy debate
- Doomsday argument, a probabilistic argument based on demographics predicting how many people will be born
- Duck's ass or duck's arse, a haircut; particularly popular during the 1950s
- Dynamic game difficulty balancing, also known as difficulty adjustment or DA, an algorithm in video games.
See also
[edit]- Da Da Da (disambiguation)
- Dah (disambiguation)
- The D.A. (disambiguation)
- Boti, a cutting utensil also known as daa