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:
  • Decimetre or decimeter (dm)
  • Dekametre or dekameter (formerly Dm)
• 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

• DMS (disambiguation)
• MD (disambiguation)