DPS may refer to:

Schools

United States

* Dalton Public Schools, the public school district in Dalton, Georgia *

Dearborn Public Schools The Dearborn Public Schools is a school district that includes the entire city of Dearborn, Michigan and a small portion of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Dearborn Heights, both in Greater Detroit. Dearborn Public Schools is the third largest school ...

, the public school district in Dearborn, Michigan *

Decatur Public Schools District 61 Decatur Public Schools District 61 is a public unit school district in Macon County, Illinois. it was the 26th largest school district in Illinois, and had one pre-kindergarten/early learning center, four full K-8 schools, eleven elementary scho ...

, the public school system in Decatur, Illinois *

Denver Public Schools The Denver County School District No. 1, more commonly known as the Denver Public Schools (DPS), is the public school system in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States. History In 1859, Owen J. Goldrick established the Union Scho ...

, the public school system in Denver, Colorado *

Detroit Public Schools Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States and high school students in the insular city of Highland Park. The district, which replaced the original Detr ...

, the public school system in Detroit, Michigan *

Durham Public Schools The Durham Public Schools district is a public school district in Durham, North Carolina. Formed in 1992 with the merger of Durham's previous two school districts, it is 8th largest school system in North Carolina as of November 2020. There ar ...

, the public school system in

Durham Durham most commonly refers to: *Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham *County Durham, an English county * Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States *Durham, North Carolina, a city in N ...

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and ...

Other countries

Delhi Public School Delhi Public School (also known as DPS) is the largest public school institution in India. The classes are from KG I to Class XII (Science, Arts and Commerce). It is affiliated to CBSE. Delhi Public School may refer to: * Delhi Public School Socie ...

, private schools run by the Delhi Public School Society * Delhi Private School, Dubai, United Arab Emirates * Delhi Private School, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates *

Divisional Public School Divisional Public Schools and Colleges (DPS or DPSC), established in 1963, is a series of mega-schools at the division level in Punjab, Pakistan. The series consists of one of the largest institutions providing education at school level in Pakis ...

, a school in Lahore and Faisalabad, Pakistan *

Dawood Public School Dawood Public School (DPS) is a trust owned institution that offers education to over 2500 girls in Karachi, Pakistan. DPS is affiliated with Cambridge University and offers a highly developed and holistic educational programme for girls from ...

, a private school in Karachi, Pakistan

Politics and government

Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro ( cnr, Демократска партија социјалиста Црне Горе, Demokratska partija socijalista Crne Gore, DPS) is a populist political party in Montenegro. A former long-time ...

, a political party in Montenegro * Department of Protection-Security (Département Protection et Sécurité), a branch of the National Front (FN) political party of France * Department of Public Safety, a type of state or local government umbrella agency in the United States *

Public Safety Canada Public Safety Canada (PSC; french: Sécurité publique Canada, SPC; PSP), legally incorporated as the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (PSEPC), is the Ministry (government department), department of the Government of Canada ...

, legally incorporated as the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, a Canadian federal cabinet-level department *

Diplomatic Protection Squad The Diplomatic Protection Service (DPS), sometimes referred to as the Diplomatic Protection Squad, is a branch of the New Zealand Police that provides personal security for both national and visiting diplomats and VIPs. National VIPs that receive ...

, VIP protection unit of the New Zealand Police *

Directorate of Professional Standards The Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) is a directorate of London's Metropolitan Police Service. The Directorate is responsible for investigating complaints against the professional conduct of Officers An officer is a person who has a ...

, a division of the London Metropolitan Police * ''Dorozhno-Patrulnaya Sluzhba'' (russian: Дорожно-Патрульная Служба, ДПС), Russia's Road Inspection Service, a division of the Russian police responsible for regulating road traffic * ''Dvizhenie za Prava i Svobodi'' ( bg, Движение за Права и Свободи, ДПС), known as the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a political party in Bulgaria

Technology

Data Processing Systems Engineer Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in such Mission Control Centers as NASA's Mission Control Center or ESA's European Space Operations Centre. Flight controllers work at computer consoles and use telemetry to mon ...

, a flight engineer responsible for data processing systems in a space flight * Descent Propulsion System, a rocket engine used in Apollo's Lunar Module * Degrees per second, a unit for measuring angular velocity * Direct Print Standard, part of PictBridge standard *

Display PostScript Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers which uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing) to generate on-screen graphics. To the basic PS system, DPS adds a num ...

, an on-screen display system *

Dynamic positioning Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Position reference sensors, combined with wind sensors, motion sensors and gyrocompass ...

system, a means to automatically maintain a ship's position and heading by using her own propellers and thrusters * DPS protocol, a quantum key distribution protocol

Biology

* Dps (DNA-binding proteins from starved cells), a class of proteins *

Distinct population segment {{no footnotes, date=February 2018 A distinct population segment (DPS) is the smallest division of a taxonomic species permitted to be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. ''Species'', as defined in the Act for listing purposes, is a ...

, a population considered for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other uses

* Dynamic Platform Services, IT * Do pyria stym (DPS), idiom in Slovak *

Ngurah Rai International Airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Internasional I Gusti Ngurah Rai) , is the main airport in Bali, located 13 km south of Denpasar. Ngurah Rai is the second busiest airport in Indonesia after Soekarno–Hatta I ...

(IATA code), near the city of Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia *

DPS Compound Baguio ( , ), officially the City of Baguio ( ilo, Siudad ti Baguio; fil, Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", ...

, Baguio, Philippines *

Damage per second This list includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players. 0–9 A ...

, a way to calculate the damage dealt in online multiplayer games * ''

Dead Poets Society ''Dead Poets Society'' is a 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir, written by Tom Schulman, and starring Robin Williams. Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative boarding school Welton Academy, it tells the story of an English ...

'', from the film of the same name * The Dead Pop Stars, a Japanese rock band *

Dps (band) Dps is a Japanese rock band under the Giza Studio label. History In May 2016, Naoki participated in Zard's live tour session "25th Anniversary Live" as a guitarist. DVD footage was released on December. On the same month, Atsushi, Naoki and Tsuy ...

, a Japanese rock band * Deltic Preservation Society, a railway preservation group based in the United Kingdom *

Desha Putra Sammanaya The Desha Putra Sammanaya ( Sinhala: දේශ පුත්‍ර සම්මානය ''dēsha puthra sammānaya''; Son of the Nation Award) is a military decoration awarded as a wound medal to servicepersons of the Military of Sri Lanka, equi ...

, a military decoration in Sri Lanka *

Division for Planetary Sciences Division or divider may refer to: Mathematics *Division (mathematics), the inverse of multiplication * Division algorithm, a method for computing the result of mathematical division Military *Division (military), a formation typically consisting ...

within the American Astronomical Society *

Doctor of Professional Studies The Doctor of Professional Studies (or sometimes awarded as Doctorate in Professional Practice) (most commonly DProf, but also available as DProfSt, ProfD and DPS) is a doctoral degree for experienced professionals who wish to undertake a program ...

, a professional doctorate *

Dramatists Play Service Dramatists Play Service (also known as The Play Service) is a theatrical-publishing and licensing house, established in 1936 by members of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society for Authors' Representatives. DPS publishes English-language ...

, an American publisher of plays * Department for Protection and Security, a French security organization * Designated Premises Supervisor, in British law the person with day-to-day responsibility for a premises where alcohol is sold * Double Page Spread, also called Two-page spread, or simply "spread", referring to two adjacent, facing pages in a magazine or other publication with conjoined or connected content * 2,2'-Dipyridyldisulfide, an oxidizing agent and a reagent for forming 2-pyridinethiol esters in the Corey-Nicolaou macrolactonization * Deposit Protection Service, a company authorised by the UK government to run Tenancy deposit schemes