DC
DC, D.C., D/C, Dc, or dc may refer to:
Places
- Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital city and federal district of the United States of America
- Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital city of Colombia
- Dubai City
Science, technology and mathematics
- DC or direct current, electric current which flows in only one direction
- DC bias, a waveform's mean value
- Decicoulomb (dC), a unit of electric charge
- New Zealand DC class locomotive
- Methylphosphonyl dichloride, a chemical weapons precursor
- A don't care term, in digital logic
Biology and medicine
- Dendritic cell, a class of immune cell
- Doctor of Chiropractic, a qualification in alternative medicine
Computing
- dc (computer program), a command-line based calculator on Unix-derived systems
- DC coefficient, in a discrete cosine transform
- Data center, a physical location housing computing-related gear
- Device context, part of the legacy Microsoft Windows graphics API
- Differential cryptanalysis
- DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme
- Direct Connect (protocol), for file sharing
- Domain Component, an attribute in LDAP
- Domain controller, a server used to manage a Microsoft Windows domain
- Dublin Core, a metadata standard
- Dynamic contrast, an LCD technology
Mathematics
- dc (elliptic function), in complex analysis
- Axiom of dependent choice, in set theory
- DC, 600 in Roman numerals
- DC, 220 in hexadecimal
Arts, entertainment and media
- D.C. (TV series)
- DC Comics, an American comic book publisher
- Detective Comics, its eponymous comic book series
- DC Inside, a South Korean internet forum
- "DC" (Succession), a television episode
- Director's cut, a version of a film approved by its director
Music
- Da capo, a musical term
- Destiny's Child, an American R&B group
- Drum Connection, a German pop group
- DC Talk, a Christian rap and rock trio
Video games
- Da Capo (visual novel)
- Deadly Creatures, a 2009 action video game
- 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
- Donut County, a video game by Ben Esposito
- Drawception, an online drawing game
Companies and products
- DC Recordings, a record label
- DC Shoes, an American sports footwear company
- Deloitte Consulting, a multinational management consulting firm
- Delta Clipper, a proposed rocketship series by McDonnell Douglas
- Dick Clark Productions
- Diet Coke, a soft drink
- Disney Channel
- DC (Douglas Commercial), a series of aircraft by the Douglas Aircraft Company (and later McDonnell Douglas)
- Dyson vacuum cleaners, which use product code prefix DC
- Golden Air, an airline (IATA code DC)
Government, law, and military
- Christian Democracy (Italy), a political party
- Christian Democracy (Brazil), 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 position
- District Commissioner, a rank in the British former Colonial Service
- District court
- Dossier criminal, in Indian policing
People
- D. C. Douglas (fl. 1997-present), American voice actor and director
- D. C. Fontana (1939–2019), American screenwriter known primarily for her work on Star Trek
- D/C, stage name of British singer-songwriter Dan Caplen
- 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
- DC., short form of the standard author abbreviation A.DC. for botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841)
- D. C. Drake (born 1957), American addictions counselor and retired professional wrestler
- Donald L. Cox (1936–2011), American leader of the Black Panther Party, known as Field Marshal DC
- D. C. Reeves, American businessman, journalist and politician
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 Pennsylvania, US
- Dhaka College, in Bangladesh
- Diné College, on the Navajo Nation, US
- Dominican Convent High School, Harare, a Catholic high school for girls in Zimbabwe
- Dominican Convent High School, Bulawayo, a Catholic high school for girls in Zimbabwe
- Dominican Convent Primary School, Bulawayo, a Catholic preparatory school for girls in Zimbabwe
- D'Youville College (now D'Youville University), in Buffalo, New York, US
Sports
- Defensive coordinator, a coaching position in American and Canadian football
- Delhi Capitals, an Indian Premier League cricket franchise
- Deccan Chargers, a former Indian Premier League cricket franchise
Other uses
- Distribution center, a building stocked with goods for delivery
- Driverless car
- Discharge (disambiguation)
- Dream character, an imaginary entity in a person's dreams
- The Dené–Caucasian languages of east Asia and western North America
See also
Search for "dc" on Wikipedia.
- All pages with titles containing DC or DCs
- All pages with titles beginning with DC
- D&C (disambiguation)
- AC/DC (disambiguation)
- Divide and conquer (disambiguation)
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