DA

Da, DA, dA, DÄ, Dä, and other variants may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• 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
• One Woman's War: Da (Mother), a book about memoirs of a mother during Iran–Iraq War

Degrees and licenses

• Diploma of Anesthesiology, a degree conferred by some medical institutions such as the Royal College of Anaesthetists
• Doctor of Arts, an academic degree

Organizations

• Da!, a Russian youth movement
• Debtors Anonymous
• Air Georgia, a Georgian airline (IATA code DA)

Politics and judiciary

• Da (political party), a defunct Israeli political party
• DA-Notice (Defence Advisory Notice), a former name for a D-Notice, a government request the UK not to publish or broadcast a specified news item for reasons of national security
• 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
• Justice and Truth Alliance (), a defunct alliance of parties in Romania

Places

• 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

Biology and medicine

• DA (chemotherapy), standard-dose cytarabine plus daunorubicin
• Deoxyanthocyanidin
• Domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by phytoplankton
• Dopamine, a monoamine neurotransmitter

Other uses in science and technology

• 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

• U.S. Soccer Development Academy, former United States soccer league

Other uses

• 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

• Da Da Da (disambiguation)
• Dah (disambiguation)
• The D.A. (disambiguation)
• Boti, a cutting utensil also known as daa