Dama (disambiguation)
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Dama or DAMA may refer to:
- Dama (village), a village in southern Syria
- Dama GazelleDama GazelleThe Dama Gazelle is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and migrates south in search of food during the dry season. Their habitat includes open steppes, bushy, grassy steppes, semi-desert, and deserts, while their diet includes grasses, leaves, shoots, fruit, and...
(Nanger dama) - Dama (deer), a genus of deer including the Fallow DeerFallow DeerThe Fallow Deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. This common species is native to western Eurasia, but has been introduced widely elsewhere. It often includes the rarer Persian Fallow Deer as a subspecies , while others treat it as an entirely different species The Fallow...
(Dama dama) - Dama Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)
- Dama, a name for Turkish draughtsTurkish draughtsTurkish draughts is a variant of draughts played in Turkey.On an 8x8 board, 16 men are lined up on each side, in two rows, skipping the furthest back....
- Dama (Dune), a fictional character in Chapterhouse Dune (1985) by Frank Herbert
- Dama-fruit, a fictional fruit in Dorothy and the Wizard in OzDorothy and the Wizard in OzDorothy and the Wizard in Oz: A Faithful Record of Their Amazing Adventures in an Underground World; and How with the Aid of Their Friends Zeb Hugson, Eureka the Kitten, and Jim the Cab-Horse, They Finally Reached the Wonderful Land of Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L....
, which renders its eaters invisible - DAMADAMADAMA is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent, international association of technical and business professionals dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of information resource management and data resource management .DAMA's primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development...
, the Data Management Association - DAMA, abbreviation for "discharged against medical adviceAgainst medical adviceAgainst Medical Advice, or AMA, sometimes known as DAMA, Discharge Against Medical Advice, is a term used with a patient who checks himself out of a hospital against the advice of his doctor. While it may not be medically wise for the person to leave early, in most cases the wishes of the patient...
" - DAMA, Demand Assigned Multiple AccessDemand Assigned Multiple AccessDemand Assigned Multiple Access 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 requests issued from user terminals to a network control system...
, a bandwidth allocation strategy - DAMA/NaIDAMA/NaIThe DAMA/NaI experiment was designed to detect dark matter using the direct detection technique. It was located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy and collected data during the period 1996-2002...
, an Italian experiment to detect dark matter - DAMA/LIBRADAMA/LIBRAThe DAMA/LIBRA experiment is an experiment designed to detect dark matter using the direct detection technique. It is located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The successor to the DAMA/NaI experiment, it uses very similar detector technology but has a larger target mass of...
, successor experiment to DAMA/NaI - Dama, a Spanish term for a lady or woman, or for the game of checkers.
- Dama, a chiefdom in Sierra Leone
- Dama, Stage name of Rasolofondraosolo Zafimahaleo, Malagasy musician, member of the band MahaleoMahaleoMahaleo is the name of a music band from Madagascar that plays tsentsigat.The band was founded in 1972, during the protest movement that led to the end of the neocolonial government...
See also
- Las Damas RomanasLas Damas RomanasLas Damas Romanas , also known as The Roman Maidens, The Roman Women, or The Roman Ladies, is an oil on canvas painting by Juan Luna, an award-winning Filipino painter, patriot, hero and one of the Philippines' first "international artists" who had been considered as one of the most important...
(literally, "The Roman Women"), a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna.