CDC

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CDC may refer to:

Organizations

Government

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a United States government public health agency
• Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan), an agency in Taiwan (the Republic of China) that combats the threat of communicable diseases
• Community Development Council, Singapore government-led community programs
• Community of Democratic Choice, an intergovernmental organization in Eastern Europe to promote democracy and human rights
• Canadian Dairy Commission, a Canadian government Crown Corporation that oversees dairy production

Politics

• Congress for Democratic Change, a Liberian political party
• Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Catalan: Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya), a former political party in Catalonia, Spain (1974–2016)
• California Democratic Council, an unofficial umbrella organization of volunteer Democratic Clubs in the United States

Associations

• Coalition to Diversify Computing, a joint organization of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computing Research Association (CRA)

Non-profit

• Community development corporation, any non-profit organization that promotes and supports a community
• Certified Development Company, a U.S. Small Business Administration program designed to provide financing for the purchase of fixed assets
• Commission for Developing Countries, a Commission of the International Mathematical Union

Business

• Caisse des dépôts et consignations ("Deposits and Consignments Fund"), a financial institution owned by the French government
• CDC Group, formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation and Colonial Development Corporation, a British development organisation owned by the UK Government
• Cameroon Development Corporation, an agribusiness company located in Limbe, Cameroon
• Control Data Corporation, former supercomputer company
  • CDC Software, a computer software company spun off from Control Data Corporation
• ComfortDelGro Australia, a major Australian operator of buses formerly named ComfortDelGro Cabcharge
• Construction Data Company, also known as CDC News and CDC Publishing, a commercial construction reporting service
• Loong Air, by ICAO code

Other organizations

• Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), a computer hacker and DIY media organization

Places

• Center Day Camp, a summer day camp in North Windham, Maine, U.S.
• Centre de documentation collégiale, specialized library in Quebec, Canada
• Communicable Disease Centre, a hospital at Moulmein Road in Novena, Singapore
• Cedar City Regional Airport, by IATA code

Science

• Cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, pore forming exotoxins, secreted by Gram positive bacteria
• Cell-division cycle, also cell cycle in biology
  • Cell-division cycle protein, e.g. Cdc42
• Conventional dendritic cell (previously called Myeloid dendritic cell)

Technology

• Change data capture, a methodology used in data warehousing and databases
• Clock domain crossing, a signal that crosses between different clock domains of a system
• Connected Device Configuration, Java framework for building Java ME applications on embedded devices
• Communications daughter card, an Ethernet, Modem or Bluetooth expansion card for mobiles
• Carbide-derived carbon, a family of carbon structures with tunable properties produced via etching of metal carbides
• USB communications device class, a composite Universal Serial Bus device class

Other uses

• CDC?, a children's book by William Steig, and sequel to CDB!
• Combat Direction Center, the tactical center of an aircraft carrier
• Cul de canard, duck feathers used in fly fishing
• Continuous Discharge Certificate, seafarer's identity document

See also

• C.DC., the botany author abbreviation of Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle