DC

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

In arts and entertainment

Music

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

Video games

• Da Capo (visual novel)
• Desert Combat, a Battlefield 1942 mod
• Digital Chaos, a professional Dota 2 eSports team
• Dino Crisis, a survival horror game series
• Dreamcast, a video game console

Other media

• D.C. (TV series)
• DC Comics, an American comic book publisher
• DC Inside, a South Korean internet forum

Businesses and products

• DC Comics, an American comic book publisher
• DC Recordings
• DC Shoes, an American sports footwear company
• Deloitte Consulting, a US management consulting firm
• Dick Clark Productions
• Diet Coke, a soft drink
• Disney Channel
• Douglas Commercial, a series of aircraft by the Douglas Aircraft Company
• Dyson vacuum cleaners, which use product code prefix DC
• Golden Air, an airline (IATA code DC)

In government and law

• Christian Democracy (Italy), a political party
• Detective constable, a rank in the British and several other police forces
• Development control in the United Kingdom, a land regulation process
• District collector, an Indian Administrative Service officer in charge of revenue collection and administration of a district
• District Commissioner, a rank in the British former Colonial Service
• District Court
• Dossier criminal, in Indian policing

People

• Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841), Swiss botanist whose botanical author abbreviation is DC
• Dalton Castle (wrestler) (born 1986)
• Daniel 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 known primarily for work on Star Trek

Places

• Dubai City, as distinct from the Emirate of Dubai
• Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States of America

In religion

• DC, a dominical letter indicating a leap year starting on Thursday
• Christian Doctrine Fathers, a Catholic organization
• Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, a Society of Apostolic Life for women within the Catholic Church

Schools

• Delaware County Christian School, in Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
• Dominican Convent High School, a Catholic high school for girls in Harare, Zimbabwe
• Dominican Convent High School, Bulawayo, a Catholic high school for girls in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
• Dominican Convent Primary School, Bulawayo, a Catholic preparatory school for girls in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
• Dominican Convent Primary School, Harare, a Catholic preparatory school for girls in Harare, Zimbabwe

In mathematics, science, and technology

In computing

• dc (computer program), a desktop calculator
• Data center, a physical location housing computing-related gear
• 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

In transportation

• New Zealand DC class locomotive

Mathematics

• dc (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions
• Axiom of dependent choice, in set theory

Other uses in science

• DC bias, a waveform's mean value
• Decicoulomb, a unit of electric charge
• Dendritic cell, a type of immune cell
• Dené–Caucasian languages
• Direct current, in electricity
• Discontinuation of a medical treatment

Other uses

• The number 600, in Roman numerals
• Deccan Chargers, a former Indian premier league cricket franchise
• Distribution center, a building housing goods to be distributed to retailers, wholesalers, or consumers
• Doctor of Chiropractic

See also

• D&C (disambiguation)