Dama or DAMA may refer to:

Animals

* Dama gazelle (''Nanger dama'') * ''Dama'' (genus) (fallow deer) ** Fallow deer (''Dama dama'') **

Persian fallow deer The Persian fallow deer (''Dama mesopotamica'') is a deer species once native to all of the Middle East, but currently only living in Iran and Israel. It was reintroduced in Israel. It has been listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2008 ...

(''Dama mesopotamica'') * Tammar wallaby or Dama wallaby (''Macropus eugenii'')

Business, science and technology

*DAMA, abbreviation for "discharged

against medical advice Against medical advice (AMA), sometimes known as discharge against medical advice (DAMA), is a term used in health care institutions when a patient leaves a hospital against the advice of their doctor. While leaving before a medically specified ...

" *

Demand Assigned Multiple Access Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) is a technology used to assign a channel to clients that don't need to use it constantly. DAMA systems assign communication channels based on news issued from user terminals to a network security system. Wh ...

, a bandwidth allocation strategy *

DAMA/NaI The DAMA/NaI experiment investigated the presence of dark matter particles in the galactic halo by exploiting the model-independent annual modulation signature. Based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun and the solar system's speed with respect to ...

, an experiment to detect dark matter *

DAMA/LIBRA The DAMA/LIBRA experiment is a particle detector experiment designed to detect dark matter using the direct detection approach, by using a matrix of NaI(Tl) scintillation detectors to detect dark matter particles in the galactic halo. The exp ...

, successor experiment to DAMA/NaI * Data Management Association, also known as the Global Data Management Community (Dama International); see

Data administration Data administration or data resource management is an organizational function working in the areas of information systems and computer science that plans, organizes, describes and controls data resources. Data resources are usually stored in databas ...

Culture

*Dama, a name for Turkish draughts *Dama, stage name of Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo, founding member of the Madagascar folk-pop band

Mahaleo Mahaleo is a folk-pop band from Madagascar that is widely viewed as the most popular Malagasy group of all time. The band was founded by Dama (Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo) with six of his classmates after first performing together during the ...

* Dama (''Dune''), a fictional character in ''Chapterhouse Dune'' (1985) by Frank Herbert *Dama-fruit, a fictional fruit in ''

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz'' is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy Gale with the humbug Wizard from ''The Wonderful Wizard o ...

'', which renders its eaters invisible *

D.A.M.A D.A.M.A (acronym of ''Deixa-me Aclarar-te a Mente Amigo'' (Portuguese) and stylized as D.Δ.M.A or DAMA, is a Portuguese pop band from Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population ...

, a Portuguese band *

Chinese Dama Chinese dama () is a term for describing Chinese middle-aged women. The term has several meanings and has experienced changes over the years. The most prevalent definition is of Chinese middle-aged women who through investment, social, and fashio ...

, a group of middle-aged Chinese women who rushed to purchase gold as investment in 2013

Geography

Dama Chiefdom Dama Chiefdom is a chiefdom in Kenema District of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds th ...

, a chiefdom in Sierra Leone *

Dama, Syria Dama ( ar, داما) is a village in the As-Suwayda Governorate of southwest Syria. It is located in the heart of the Lejah lava plateau, 29 km north west of the city of As-Suwayda. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Dama h ...

, a village * Dama, Tongxiang, a town in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, China

Other uses

*Dama ceremony, a ceremony venerating the dead in the Dogon religion *Dama, or

temperance Temperance may refer to: Moderation *Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed *Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion Culture *Temperance (group), Canadian danc ...

, a Hindu virtue of self-control and self-restraint

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