DC
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DC most often refers to:
- Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital of the United States
- DC Comics, an American comic book publisher
- Direct current, electric current which flows in only one direction
DC, D.C., D/C, Dc, or dc may refer to:
Places
[edit | edit source]- Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital city of Colombia
- Dubai City
Science, technology and mathematics
[edit | edit source]- dC, decicoulomb, a tenth of a Coulomb, the SI unit of electric charge
- New Zealand DC class locomotive
- Methylphosphonyl dichloride, a chemical weapons precursor
- A don't care term, in digital logic
Biology and medicine
[edit | edit source]- Dendritic cell, a class of immune cell
- Doctor of Chiropractic, a qualification in alternative medicine
Computing
[edit | edit source]- dc (computer program), a command-line based calculator on Unix-derived systems
- DC coefficient, in a discrete cosine transform
- Data center, a physical location housing computing-related gear
- Device context, part of the legacy Microsoft Windows graphics API
- Differential cryptanalysis
- DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme
- Direct Connect (protocol), for file sharing
- Domain Component, an attribute in LDAP
- Domain controller, a server used to manage a Microsoft Windows domain
- Dublin Core, a metadata standard
- Dynamic contrast, an LCD technology
Mathematics
[edit | edit source]- dc (elliptic function), in complex analysis
- Axiom of dependent choice, in set theory
- DC, 600 in Roman numerals
- DC, 220 in hexadecimal
Arts, entertainment and media
[edit | edit source]- D.C. (TV series)
- Detective Comics, a comic book series published by DC Comics
- DC Inside, a South Korean internet forum
- "DC" (Succession), a television episode
Music
[edit | edit source]- Da capo, a musical term
- Destiny's Child, an American R&B group
- Drum Connection, a German pop group
Video games
[edit | edit source]- Da Capo (visual novel)
- Desert Combat, a Battlefield 1942 mod
- Dino Crisis, a survival horror game series
Companies and products
[edit | edit source]- DC Recordings, a record label
- DC Shoes, an American sports footwear company
- Delta Clipper, a proposed rocketship series by McDonnell Douglas
- DC (Douglas Commercial), a series of aircraft by the Douglas Aircraft Company (and later McDonnell Douglas)
- Dyson vacuum cleaners, which use product code prefix DC
- Golden Air, an airline (IATA code DC)
Government, law, and military
[edit | edit source]- Christian Democracy (Italy), a political party
- Christian Democracy (Brazil), a political party
- Detective constable, a police rank
- District collector, an Indian Administrative Service position
- Deputy commissioner, an administrative rank
- Dossier criminal, in Indian policing
People
[edit | edit source]- D/C, stage name of British singer-songwriter Dan Caplen
- Daniel Cormier (born 1979) Olympic wrestler and heavyweight mixed martial artist
- David Coulthard (born 1971) British racing driver, known as DC
- DC., the standard author abbreviation for botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841)
- Donald L. Cox (1936–2011), American leader of the Black Panther Party, known as Field Marshal DC
Religion
[edit | edit source]- DC, a dominical letter indicating a leap year starting on Thursday
- Christian Doctrine Fathers, a Catholic organization
- Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, a Society of Apostolic Life for women within the Catholic Church
- Deuterocanon, books of the Bible which are considered non-canonical by Protestant denominations
Schools
[edit | edit source]- Delaware County Christian School, in Pennsylvania, US
- Dhaka College, in Bangladesh
- Dominican Convent High School, Bulawayo, a Catholic high school for girls in Zimbabwe
- Dominican Convent Primary School, Bulawayo, a Catholic preparatory school for girls in Zimbabwe
Sports
[edit | edit source]- Delhi Capitals, an Indian Premier League cricket franchise
- Deccan Chargers, a former Indian Premier League cricket franchise
Other uses
[edit | edit source]- Demon Cat, a ghost cat in American folklore
- Distribution center, a building stocked with goods for delivery
- Dream character, an imaginary entity in a person's dreams
- Drower Collection, a collection of Mandaic manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, United Kingdom
See also
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Search for "dc" on Wikipedia.
- All pages with titles containing DC or DCs
- All pages with titles beginning with DC
- D&C (disambiguation)
- AC/DC (disambiguation)
- Divide and conquer (disambiguation)
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