DCI

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DCI may be an abbreviation for:

In government:

• Director of Central Intelligence, the head of the CIA; now a defunct position
• Detective Chief Inspector, a police rank in the United Kingdom

In technology:

• Digital Cinema Initiatives, a joint venture between the major Hollywood studios to establish a specification for a standard digital cinema architecture
• Direct Common-rail Injection, a variant term for a type of fuel injection for diesel engines used by Renault
• Display Control Interface, a standard developed by Microsoft and Intel for device drivers that control graphics cards
• Ductile cast iron, a more flexible type of cast iron

In competition:

• Drum Corps International, the nonprofit organization governing modern junior drum and bugle corps
• Duelists' Convocation International, the organization that runs official tournaments of Wizards of the Coast trading card games

DCI can also refer to:

• Decompression illness, a condition brought on by rapid decompression with the combination of decompression sickness ("the bends") and arterial gas embolisms; traditionally associated with diving
• Defense Capabilities Initiative, a NATO initiative
• Dredging Corporation of India Limited, an Indian public sector company
• DCI, Inc., formerly known as Dairy Craft, Inc., a storage tank fabrication company based out of St. Cloud, Minnesota