DC

Look up DC, D.C., Dc, dC, or d.C. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

DC, D.C., Dc, or dc may refer to:

Places

• Dubai City, to distinguish from the Emirate of Dubai
• Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital of the United States of America

Science

• DC bias, a waveform's mean value
• Dendritic cell, a type of immune cell
• Direct current, the unidirectional flow of electric charge
• Decicoulomb, one tenth of a coulomb, a unit of electric charge
• Doctor of Chiropractic

Computing and technology

• dc (computer program), a desktop calculator
• DC Inside, a South Korean internet forum
• Data center
• Device Context, part of the Microsoft Windows API
• DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme
• Direct Connect (file sharing)
• Domain controller, a type of Microsoft Server
• Dublin Core, a metadata standard
• Dynamic contrast, an LCD technology
• Domain Component, an attribute in LDAP

Music

• DC Recordings
• Da capo, a musical term
• Destiny's Child, an American R&B group
• Drum Connection, a German pop group

• Disney Channel
• D.C. (TV series)
• Dick Clark Productions

Video games

• Da Capo (visual novel)
• Desert Combat, a Battlefield 1942 mod
• Dreamcast, a video game console
• Dino Crisis, a PS1 survival horror game

Transportation

• New Zealand DC class locomotive
• Golden Air, an airline, IATA code DC
• Douglas Commercial, a series of aircraft by the Douglas Aircraft Company

Law and government

• Christian Democracy (Italy), a political party
• Detective Constable, rank in the British police
• Development control in the United Kingdom, a land regulation process
• District Court
• Dossier criminal

People

• Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841), Swiss botanist, botanical author abbr. is DC
• Daniel "DC" Cormier (born 1979) Olympic wrestler and heavyweight mixed martial artist,
• David Coulthard (born 1971), British racing driver, known as DC
• Donald L. Cox (1936–2011), American leader of the Black Panther Party, known as Field Marshal DC
• D. C. Fontana (Dorothy Catherine Fontana) (born 1939), American screenwriter

Other uses

• DC Comics
• DC Shoes
• Christian Doctrine Fathers, a Catholic organization
• Daughters of Charity, a Society of Apostolic Life for women within the Catholic Church
• Deccan Chargers, a former Indian premier league franchise
• Delaware County Christian School
• Dené–Caucasian languages
• Diet Coke, a soft drink
• Discontinuation
• Distribution center
• Axiom of dependent choice, a concept in mathematics
• The product code for all Dyson vacuum cleaners
• The number 600 in Roman numerals
• DC, a dominical letter of leap year starting on Thursday

See also

• D&C (disambiguation)