DFA may refer to:

Business

Dairy Farmers of America Dairy Farmers of America Inc. (DFA) is a national milk marketing cooperative in the United States. DFA markets members' raw milk and sells milk and derivative products (dairy products, food components, ingredients and shelf-stable dairy products) ...

, in agriculture * Design For All, produced for the Target Corporation

Education

Doctor of Fine Arts Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) is a doctoral degree in fine arts, may be given as an honorary degree (a degree ''honoris causa'') or an earned professional degree (in the UK). Description Doctoral programmes leading to DFAs are of equivalent level ...

, an academic degree *

John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School (DFA) is a public magnet school for the fine and performing arts located in downtown Augusta, Georgia, United States. It draws students in grades 6 through 12 throughout Richmond County. In addition to a b ...

("Davidson Fine Arts"), in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.

Engineering

* Design for All, as a design philosophy * Design for assembly, manufacturing improvement to allow faster or automated assembly or assembly with fewer parts

Entertainment

Gaming

* 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'' * “Dart Farm Ace”, a strategy in the online PvP game Bloons TD Battles

Music

Death from Above 1979 Death from Above 1979 (also known as Death from Above) is a Canadian rock duo consisting of bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger from Toronto, Ontario, formed in 2001. The band released their debut album, '' You're ...

, 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

* 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

* Dimensional Fund Advisors, in finance * Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a US federal law signed in 2010 *

Dynamic financial analysis Dynamic financial analysis (DFA) is a simulation approach that looks at an insurance enterprise's risks holistically as opposed to traditional actuarial analysis, which analyzes risks individually. Specifically, DFA reveals the dependencies of haza ...

, in finance

Government and politics

Democracy for America Democracy for America (DFA) is a progressive political action committee, headquartered in Burlington, Vermont. Founded by former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean in 2004, DFA leads public awareness campaigns on a variety of pub ...

, 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

Computing

Data-flow analysis In computing, dataflow is a broad concept, which has various meanings depending on the application and context. In the context of software architecture, data flow relates to stream processing or reactive programming. Software architecture Dataf ...

, 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 Multi-factor authentication (MFA; encompassing two-factor authentication, or 2FA, along with similar terms) is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting ...

Science

Descent from antiquity In European genealogy, a descent from antiquity (DFA or DfA) is a proven unbroken line of descent between specific individuals from ancient history and people living today. Descents can readily be traced back to the Early Middle Ages, but beyond ...

, the process of establishing a generation-by-generation descent of living persons *

Direct fluorescent antibody A direct fluorescent antibody (DFA or dFA), also known as "direct immunofluorescence", is an antibody that has been tagged in a direct fluorescent antibody test. Its name derives from the fact that it directly tests the presence of an antigen with ...

, a medical test * Humid continental climate with hot summer (designated Dfa), in climate classification

Statistics

* Detrended fluctuation analysis, a variation of the Hurst Exponent technique, used in the analysis of fractal time series *

Discriminant function analysis Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), normal discriminant analysis (NDA), or discriminant function analysis is a generalization of Fisher's linear discriminant, a method used in statistics and other fields, to find a linear combination of features ...

, a classification procedure {{disambiguation