Dama or DAMA may refer to:
Animals
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Dama gazelle (''Nanger dama'')
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''Dama'' (genus) (fallow deer)
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Fallow deer (''Dama dama'')
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Persian fallow deer (''Dama mesopotamica'')
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Tammar wallaby or Dama wallaby (''Macropus eugenii'')
Business, science and technology
*DAMA, abbreviation for "discharged
against medical advice"
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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
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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
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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
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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), Dama (''Dune''), a fictional character in ''Chapterhouse Dune'' (1985) by Frank Herbert
*Dama-fruit, a fictional fruit in ''Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz'', which renders its eaters invisible
*D.A.M.A, a Portuguese band
*Chinese Dama, a group of middle-aged Chinese women who rushed to purchase gold as investment in 2013
Geography
*Dama Chiefdom, a chiefdom in Sierra Leone
*Dama, Syria, 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 (virtue), temperance, a Hindu virtue of self-control and self-restraint
See also
* Dama language (disambiguation)
* Dama y obrero (disambiguation)
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