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DFA may refer to:
Business
[edit]- Dairy Farmers of America, in agriculture
- Design For All, produced for the Target Corporation
Education
[edit]- Doctor of Fine Arts, an academic degree
- John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School ("Davidson Fine Arts"), in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
Engineering
[edit]- Design for All, as a design philosophy
- Design for assembly, manufacturing improvement to allow faster or automated assembly or assembly with fewer parts
Entertainment
[edit]Gaming
[edit]- “Dart Farm Ace”, a strategy in the online PvP game Bloons TD Battles
- Diverse Filmmakers Alliance (DFA)
- Death From Above, a jump-jet attack tactic in the BattleTech game universe
- Double Fine Adventure, working title of the point-and-click adventure game Broken Age
Music
[edit]- Death from Above 1979, a Toronto-based Canadian alternative rock duo
- DFA (Italian rock band), an Italian progressive rock band from Verona, Italy
- DFA Records, an independent record label and production team
Sports
[edit]- Darwin Football Association, an Australian rules football league in Tasmania
- Designated for assignment, a type of player transaction in Major League Baseball
- Dominica Football Association, the governing body of football in Dominica
Finance
[edit]- Dimensional Fund Advisors, in finance
- Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a US federal law signed in 2010
- Dynamic financial analysis, in finance
Government and politics
[edit]- 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
Mathematics, science, and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- 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
Science
[edit]- Descent from antiquity, the process of establishing a generation-by-generation descent of living persons
- Direct fluorescent antibody, a medical test
- Humid continental climate in climate classification (Dfa), with hot summers and cold winters and ample precipitation in all seasons
Statistics
[edit]- Detrended fluctuation analysis, a variation of the Hurst Exponent technique, used in the analysis of fractal time series
- Discriminant function analysis, a classification procedure