DC
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DC may stand for:
[edit] Administrative units / geography
- Washington, D.C., the capital territory of the United States
- Distrito capital, the capital district of a Spanish-speaking nation
- Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital of Colombia
- Venezuelan Capital District
[edit] 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
[edit] Business
- DC Shoes, a footwear company which specializes in shoes for skateboarding
- Distribution center
- Defined contribution, a type of pensions plan
- The Deccan Chronicle, a popular English daily newspaper in South India
[edit] Comics
- DC Comics, a comic book publisher
- Detective Comics, the comic book that gave DC Comics its name
[edit] 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, an attribute for DNS names in LDAP
- Domain controller, a role for a server on a Microsoft Windows network
- Dublin Core, a metadata standard used to describe digital materials
- dc (Unix), an RPN-based calculator distributed as part of Unix
- Dynamic contrast, a technology that attempts to improve the quality of dark images on LCD screens
[edit] Electricity
- Dielectric constant
- Direct current, the constant flow of electric charge in a single direction
[edit] Linguistics
- Dené-Caucasian, a proposed language superfamily
[edit] Mathematics
- Axiom of dependent choice, a weak form of the axiom of choice which is sufficient to develop most of real analysis
- One of Jacobi's elliptic functions
[edit] Military
- Dental corps, a special branch of the United States Army Medical Department
- The United States Navy Dental Corps
- Royal Army Dental Corps, a specialist corps in the British Army Medical Services
- 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
[edit] Music
- DC offset, a signal's offset from zero
- DC coefficient
[edit] People
- David Coulthard (born 1971), British racing driver
[edit] Sport
- Deccan Chargers, an Indian Premier League franchise
[edit] Television and film
- D. C. Fontana, screenplay writer
- D.C. (TV series)
[edit] Transportation
- Distribution center, a building stocked with products to be re-distributed
- Golden Air in IATA airline designation
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