MDC

MDC may refer to:

• Movement for Democratic Change (pre-2005), a former Zimbabwean political party that split in 2005 into the MDC-T and MDC-M (later renamed MDC-N).
  • Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC-T), a Zimbabwean political party, the bigger of the two parties that came out of the 2005 split.
  • Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube (MDC-N), a former Zimbabwean political party, the smaller of the two parties that came out of the 2005 split, now merged into UMDC.
  • United Movement for Democratic Change, a Zimbabwean political party founded in 2014 as a merger of MDC-N and MDC Renewal Team.

• MDC (band) (Millions of Dead Cops), an American rock band

Other meanings include:

In computing and electronics

• Management Data Clock, a pin used in the MDIO bus
• Mapped Diagnostic Context, used in distributed computer systems to distinguish logging information from different sources sent to a single place of storage
• MDC-600 and MDC-1200, an AFSK mobile data format used in Motorola two-way radios
• Message digest code
• MetaData Coalition - see metadata (computing)
• Metadata controller, which manages file locking, space allocation and data access authorization in a storage area network (SAN)
• Mobile data computer
• Mobile Daughter Card
• Modification Detection Code
• Mozilla Developer Center, a website
• Multiple Description Coding
• Multi Dimensional Clustering, a data layout scheme incorporated in the IBM DB2 database version 8

Education and science

• macrophage-derived chemokine (CCL22) - In Biology, MDC is a member of chemokine family genes
• Major Diagnostic Category, diagnostic groupings in the ICD system
• Mater Dei College - Tubigon, Bohol, Philippines
• Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin
• Miami-Dade College, located in Miami, Florida
• Methylenedioxycathinone, a structural analogue of both MDMA and methcathinone
• Biotin-independent malonate decarboxylase, an enzyme

Locations, companies, and structures

• Manado Airport, also known as Sam Ratulangi Airport in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
• McDonnell Douglas
• Medicaid Dental Center (MDC)
• Metropolitan Detention Center
• Metropolitan District Commission, now part of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, a former agency in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts responsible for roadways and parks in and around the Boston metropolitan area
• Metropolitan District Commission, water board serving much of central and north-central Connecticut
• Miami-Dade County in Florida
• Missouri Department of Conservation
• Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), a Malaysian government-owned institution responsible for the management of the Multimedia Super Corridor
• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

Sports

• Mon-Dak Conference
• Million Dollar Corporation, a former World Wrestling Entertainment faction

Other meanings

• 1600 (number), a Roman numeral
• Manuel de Codage, abbr. MdC, a system for transliterating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Mega-Damage Capacity, a measure of the toughness and structural integrity of armored vehicles in the Palladium Books role-playing system
• Myanmar Democracy Congress, in Burma
• More developed country
• Music Directory Canada
• Miniature detonation cord, a method of rapidly fragmenting an aircraft's canopy prior to ejection
• Methylenedioxycathinone, a synthetic stimulant of the cathinone class
• Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders