DNA
/ˌdiːɛnˈeɪ/ · noun
Meaning
- Did not attend.
- To place (someone) under a DNA (do not arm) order because of mental illness.
- Did not arrive (used when someone fails to keep an appointment).
- Alternative form of DNA.
- Does not apply.
- The fundamental nature or values of a person, or an organization or other thing, especially when considered as innate or immutable.
- Did not answer.
- Defense Nuclear Agency, an agency of the United States Department of Defense which existed from 1971 to 1996 and has since been reorganized as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
- Drugs 'n' alcohol.
- Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid (“a nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction”).
- Do not arm (that is, do not provide with a firearm).
- To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
- Do not assume.
- The part of a living thing that carries genetic information.
Etymology / origin
The noun is an initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun.
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