DM
DM, Dm, dm, or D.M. may stand for:
Academic titles
- Doctor of Management, an academic management degree
- Doctor of Medicine, an academic medical degree
- Doctor of Music, an academic music-performance degree, also known as D.M.A
- Doctor of Metaphysics, an academic degree in metaphysics
Business and products
- Direct mail, or advertising mail, delivery of advertising material to recipients of postal mail
- Direct market, the dominant distribution and retail network for North American comic books
- Direct marketing, a type of marketing sending messages directly to consumers
- Maersk Air, IATA code DM, a former Danish airline which operated from 1969 until 2005
- Dr. Martens, a brand of boots
- Digital Monolithic, a National Semiconductor prefix for their digital logic integrated circuits
- dm-drogerie markt, a German drugstore chain
- Destination Maternity, Destination Maternity Corporation is the world's largest designer and retailer of maternity apparel. It is based in Philadelphia.
- Daily Mail, a British tabloid
Computing and the Internet
- Data mart, a specialized version of a data warehouse
- Data mining, searching large volumes of data for patterns
- Dimensional modeling, a set of techniques and concepts used in data warehouse design
Software:
- Device management, programs for automatically updating the software on mobile phone
- Device mapper, a component of the Linux kernel that supports logical volume management
- Digital Mars, an American software company developing compilers
- DM (windowing system), a window system for AEGIS OS on Apollo/Domain workstations
- X display manager (program type), a graphical login manager
- Dailymotion, a video sharing website
- Dream Maker, an interpreted programming language
- Direct Message, a personal message used on Twitter
Economics
- Deutsche Mark (1948–2002), the former official currency of Germany
- East German mark (1951–1990), initially Deutsche Mark, the former official currency of East Germany
- Developed market, those countries that are thought to be the most developed
Military
- DM, a United States Navy abbreviation for "light minelayer"
- Designated marksman, a soldier fulfilling the marksman role in an infantry squad
- Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Defense Munitions, sites are prefixed DM
Places
- Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean Sea
- DM, the nation's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
- .dm, the nation's country code top-level domain
- Des Moines, Iowa, the state capital
- Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, AZ
- Daallo Mountain, a national park in Sanaag, Somalia
Popular culture
Film, TV and radio
- Danger Mouse (TV series), a British animated television series
- Despicable Me, a 2010 film
- Despicable Me 2, a 2013 sequel
- WWDM, a radio station licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, United States
- Dunder Mifflin, a fictional paper company in The Office
Games
- Deathmatch, a gameplay mode integrated into first-person shooter computer games
- Duel Masters Trading Card Game, a collectible card game in Japan, Europe, North America
- Dungeon Master, the game designer, storyteller and referee in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
- Drum Mania, a music video game
- Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, a first-person action game with role-playing elements
Music and dancing
- Dm, a minor chord on D
- Death metal, a musical style evolving from thrash metal
- Dance marathon, a multiple-day charity event on U.S. college campuses
Albums
- Danse Manatee, the second studio album by Animal Collective
- Death Magnetic (2008), the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica
- Definitely Maybe (1994), the debut album of British rock band Oasis
Bands
- Depeche Mode, an English synthpop band formed in 1980
- Diabolical Masquerade
- Disarmonia Mundi, an Italian melodic death metal band from Turin
- Dark Moor, a Spanish heavy metal band from Madrid
- Dangerous Muse, an American electropop duo based in New York City
Science and mathematics
- Adamsite, a chemical agent used in riot control
- Data mile (DM), a radar-related unit of distance
- Two SI units of length:
- Demineralisation (disambiguation), various processes (affecting bones, teeth, soil, cocoons and water)
- Cantor's diagonal argument or method, a mathematical proof of the uncountability of reals
- Distributed morphology, a theoretical framework in linguistics
Medicine
- Degenerative myelopathy, a condition in dogs affecting the spinal cord
- Dextromethorphan, an anti-coughing drug found in many preparations
- Diabetes mellitus, a disease characterized by high blood sugar
- Difference due to memory, a neural activity effect
- Double minute, fragments of extrachromosomal DNA in human tumors
- Myotonic dystrophy (DM-1/2/3), a chronic muscle-wasting disease
- n-Decyl β-D-Maltopyranoside, a maltoside detergent used when purifying membrane proteins
Physics
- Dark matter, in cosmology, hypothetical non-luminous matter
- Dichroic mirror, a mirror with different transmittance or reflectance at two different wavelengths
- Dispersion measure, the amount of dispersion of radio waves by interstellar medium
- Dry matter, a measurement of the mass of something when completely dried
Other uses
- De minimis, a Latin legal term
- Diis Manibus, a Latin epitaphial acronym
- SJ Dm3, and Dm, Swedish locomotives
Occupations:
- Defensive midfielder, an association football position
- Divemaster, a title in scuba diving
- Drum major, the leader of a marching band
- Dungeon monitor, a safety official at BDSM parties
People with the initials DM
- Dennis Miller (born 1953), an American entertainer, stand-up comedian, TV personality
- Dean Malenko (born 1960), a pro wrestler
- David Miscavige (born 1960), a chairman of RTC (Religious Technology Center)
- Dave Mustaine (born 1961), a guitarist and songwriter of Megadeth
- Danger Mouse (musician) (born 1977), an American musical artist and producer
- Dean Martin (born 1917 - died 1995), American singer, actor, comedian, and film producer
- Deana Martin (born 1948), daughter of Dean Martin. American actress, author, singer, dancer, mom
See also
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