DC

'DC' may stand for:

Contents

Biology

Business

Comics

Computers and software

Electricity

Geography / Administrative Units

Linguistics

Mathematics

Military

Music

People

Television and film

Transportation

Others

Biology

★ A. P. de Candolle in botanical nomenclature, a botanist who developed an extensive system of botanical classification

★ Dendritic cell, a type of immune cell

★ Doctor of Chiropractic, a health care profession

Business

★ DC Shoes, a clothing company that deals primarily with skateboarding gear.

★ Dot-com business, any company that promoted itself as an Internet business during the stock market boom of the late 1990s

★ DC, an acronym for Distribution center

Comics

★ DC Comics, a comic book publisher

★ ''Detective Comics'', the comic book that gave DC Comics its name

Computers and software

★ Device Context, a handle for a data structure in Microsoft Windows' Graphical Device Interface subsystem

★ Direct Connect (file sharing), a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol

★ DC++, a client which implements the Direct Connect protocol

★ Distributed computing, decentralised and parallel computing

★ Domain Component (LDAP), an attribute for DNS names in LDAP (e.g. dc=example,dc=com)

★ Domain controller, a role for a server on a Windows network

★ Dreamcast, a sixth generation video game console made by Sega

★ Dublin Core, a metadata standard used to describe digital materials

★ dc (Unix), a Unix command line RPN based calculator

★ , a strategy game

Electricity

★ Dielectric constant, an electrical term

★ Direct current, the constant flow of electric charge in a single direction

Geography / Administrative Units

★ Washington, District of Columbia, the capital territory of the United States

★ Distrito capital, the capital district of a Spanish-speaking nation

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★ Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital of Colombia

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★ Venezuelan Capital District

★ Dickenson County, a county in Virginia

Linguistics

★ Dené-Caucasian, the hypothesis of the language superfamily, comprising North Caucasian, Basque, Burushaski, Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian and Na-Dené.

Mathematics

★ Axiom of dependent choice, a weak form of the axiom of choice which is sufficient to develop most of real analysis

Military

★ Dental corps, a special branch of the Army Medical Department (United States)

★ Navy Dental Corps, a corps of naval officers who have either a Doctorate in Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine

★ Royal Army Dental Corps, the specialist corps in the British Army that provides dental care services to British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace

★ Damage control, a term used in merchant marines and navies for the emergency control of situations that may hazard the sinking of a ship or ships

Music

★ DC, R&B Artist: DCYPHA Records

★ Da capo, a musical term

★ dc Talk, a Christian music group

★ ''DC Talk'', the first album by Christian music group dc Talk

★ Drum Connection, a German music group

★ Dixie Chicks, female country music group.

★ Destiny's Child, female R&B group

★ Dashboard Confessional, an American emo-rock group

★ DC offset, a signal's offset from zero

★ DC coefficient

People

★ David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver

★ Daniel Craig, actor best known for his role as James Bond

★ Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States

Television and film

★ ''Dawson's Creek'', a television series

★ D. C. Fontana, screenplay writer

★ ''D.C.'' (TV series), a Dick Wolf-created drama that aired for seven episodes in 2000 on The WB

★ Dick Clark Productions

★ Discovery Channel

★ Disney Channel

★ DCTV (DaimlerChrysler Television), the DaimlerChrysler TV channel.

★ Digital terrestrial television in United States broadcast station classes, a class of technologies for broadcasting high-resolution television signals from earth-bound antennas

★ ''Damage Control'' (TV series), a reality TV series created by MTV and hosted by Simple Plan frontman Pierre Bouvier

Transportation

★ Daimler-Chrysler, a car manufacturer

★ David Coulthard, a British Formula One driver

★ Distribution center, any warehouse or other specialized building with refrigeration or air conditioning which are supplied by transport and then re-distributed to retailers or wholesalers, (DC)

★ Douglas Aircraft Company in aircraft series designation, a defunct aircraft manufacturer of the United States

★ Golden Air in IATA airline designation, a regional airline based in Trollhättan, Sweden

Others

★ Dartmouth College, a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States

★ Democrazia Cristiana, an Italian political party

★ Developing country, any country with a relatively low standard of living, undeveloped industrial base, and moderate to low Human Development Index

★ Dietitians of Canada, a professional association

★ Difficulty Class, a basic concept of the d20 System of role-playing game mechanics

★ District court, a category of courts which exists in several nations

★ Donegal Celtic, a football club from West Belfast playing in the Irish Premier League

★ Diet Coke, a famous soft drink without any sugar

★ The number 600 in Roman numerals

★ Dane Cook, a comedian/actor

★ Digital camera, an electronic device used to capture and store photographs electronically in a digital format

★ Detective Constable, lowest police rank of CID