Dama

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Dama or DAMA may refer to:

Animals

  • Dama gazelle (Nanger dama)
  • Dama (genus) (fallow deer)
    • Fallow deer (Dama dama)
    • Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica)
  • Tammar wallaby or Dama wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Business, science and technology

  • DAMA, abbreviation for "discharged against medical advice"
  • Demand Assigned Multiple Access, a bandwidth allocation strategy
  • DAMA/NaI, an experiment to detect dark matter
  • DAMA/LIBRA, successor experiment to DAMA/NaI
  • Data Management Association, also known as the Global Data Management Community (Dama International); see Data administration
  • DAMA protocol ("Document, Assess, Monitor, Act"), a principle used in taxonomy, infectious disease, and parasitology

Culture

  • Dama, a name for Turkish draughts
  • Dama, stage name of Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo, founding member of the Madagascar folk-pop band Mahaleo
  • 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
  • Dama, little stone village "borgo" in Casentino, Tuscany, Italy

Other uses

  • Dama ceremony, a ceremony venerating the dead in the Dogon religion
  • Dama, or temperance, a Hindu virtue of self-control and self-restraint

See also

  • Dama language (disambiguation)
  • Dama y obrero (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Dama
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