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DIX or Dix may refer to:
Business
- Danish Internet Exchange Point, an Internet Exchange Point
- DIX Ethernet, a consortium of DEC, Intel and Xerox that framed an early Ethernet protocol standard
Computing
- Data Integrity Extensions, data corruption error-handling field in data storage technology
- Device Independent X, part of the 2D graphics device driver in the X.Org Server
- DIX, The first Ethernet standard short for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Intel and Xerox
Media and entertainment
- Moi dix Mois, Japanese metal band
- Otto Dix (band), a Russian darkwave band
People
- Adrian Dix, Canadian politician
- Alan Dix, British author and university professor
- Beulah Marie Dix, American screenwriter, playwright and novelist
- Dix Terne, West German bobsledder
- Dorothea Dix, American social worker
- Dorothy Dix, American journalist
- Gregory Dix, English priest and liturgical scholar
- Jan Dix, German musician
- John Alden Dix, New York governor
- John Adams Dix, American general
- Otto Dix, German expressionist
- Richard Dix (actor), American actor
- Ronald Dix, former Derby County and England footballer
- Walter Dix, American track and field athlete
- William Chatterton Dix, English composer
- William Peirce Dix (1853–1924), English football administrator and FA Cup referee
Places
United States
- Dix, Illinois
- Dix, Nebraska
- Dix, New York
- Dix Dam, a dam on the Dix River in Kentucky
- Dix Hill, a high rolling expanse of land in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Dix Mountain, a mountain in the Adirondacks, New York
- Dix Range, a mountain range in the Adirondacks, New York
- Dix River, Kentucky
- Dix Stadium, a collegiate football stadium in Kent, Ohio
- Fort Dix, an Army post in New Jersey
Switzerland
- Lac des Dix, the lake created by Grande Dixence Dam
Other uses
- D-IX, a drug cocktail developed in Germany during WW2 to relieve fatigue
- Dix (steamboat), a steamboat which ran on Puget Sound, USA from 1904 to 1906
- Dix, a hymn tune used with hymn For the Beauty of the Earth and As with Gladness, Men of Old; named for William C. Dix
- DIX, the number 509 in Roman numerals
See also
- Dicks, pen name of Edmond de la Fontaine, a Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language
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