What does DPS mean?

"J7Luke;c-1330003" wrote:
Since this game is broken up into turns instead of being fluid combat, there is no such thing as "damage per second". If you see the acronym DPS somewhere, it is either referring to a character that primarily deals damage (denoted by the "attacker" tag), or the person using the acronym is misapplying it.

Or using it to mean "damage per shot"....which is a perfectly acceptable usage of the acronym.