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DC, D.C., Dc, or dc may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Da capo, a musical term
- DC Recordings, owned by Jonathan Saul Kane
- 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
- Delta Clipper, a proposed rocketship series by 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 officer in charge of revenue collection and administration of a district
- District Commissioner, a rank in the British former Colonial Service
- District Court
- The District of Columbia, federal capital of the United States
- 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
- DC Drake (born 1957), American addictions counselor, and retired professional wrestler
- D. C. Fontana (Dorothy Catherine Fontana) (born 1939), American screenwriter known primarily for work on Star Trek
- Donald L. Cox (1936–2011), American leader of the Black Panther Party, known as Field Marshal DC
Places
- Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States of America
- Dubai City, as distinct from the Emirate of Dubai
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
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- Dendritic cell, a type of immune cell
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 Component, an attribute in LDAP
- Domain controller, a server used to manage a Windows domain
- Dublin Core, a metadata standard
- Dynamic contrast, an LCD technology
Mathematics
- dc (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions
- Axiom of dependent choice, in set theory
Other uses in science and technology
- DC bias, a waveform's mean value
- Decicoulomb (dC), a unit of electric charge
- Dené–Caucasian languages, of east Asia and western North America
- Direct current, electric current which flows in only one direction
- New Zealand DC class locomotive
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
- D'Youville College, a chiropractic school in Buffalo, New York
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, a qualification in alternative medicine
- Dust collector, equipment in a woodworking shop
See also
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