Biography
Introduction
DC may refer to:
Capitals
- District of Columbia, also known as Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
- Distrito capital, the capital district of a Spanish-speaking nation
- Bogotá, D.C., the capital of Colombia
Computing and technology
- Douglas Aircraft Company
- dc (computer program)
- Device Context, a programming object within the Microsoft Windows API
- Direct Connect (file sharing), a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
- Distributed computing
- Domain controller, a Microsoft Windows server that responds to security authentication requests
- Dublin Core, a metadata standard
- Dynamic contrast, a technology related to LCD screens
- Domain Component, an attribute for DNS names in LDAP
- DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme for digital television
- DCxx, product code for all Dyson vacuum cleaners.
- DC-frames or DC-pictures, type of frames/pictures in MPEG
Electricity
- Direct current, the unidirectional flow of electric charge
- DC offset, the mean amplitude of a waveform
- DC bias, the mean value of a waveform in regard to a periodic function in the frequency domain
Biology and medicine
- Dendritic cell, a type of immune cell
- Doctor of Chiropractic
Media, music and entertainment
- D.C. (TV series)
- DC Comics, a comic book publisher
- DC Recordings, a record label
- The Deccan Chargers, a cricket team which represents hyderabad in the Indian Premier League
- Da capo, a musical term
- Da Capo (visual novel)
- Dark Cloud, a video game series
- Dashboard Confessional, an American rock band
- Dane Cook, American comedian whose self-given nickname is DC
- David Cook (singer), winner of the seventh season of American Idol
- The Deccan Chronicle, a newspaper
- Destiny's Child, a musical group
- Detective Conan, a manga also known as Case Closed
- Discovery Channel
- Disney Channel
- The Dixie Chicks, a country music group
- Dreamcast, a video game console
- Drum Connection, a German musical group
People
- D. C. Fontana (b. 1939), screenwriter
- David Coulthard (b. 1971), British racing driver
- A. P. de Candolle (1778-1841), a botanist abbreviated as DC in botanical nomenclature
- Dave Chappelle, African-American comedian
Other meanings
- DC Shoes, a footwear company
- Detective Constable, rank in the British police
- Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, London Metropolitan Police Service senior rank
- Deccan Chargers, an Indian cricket franchise
- Defined contribution, a type of pension plan
- Dené-Caucasian, a language family
- Developed country
- Distribution center
- Axiom of dependent choice, a concept in mathematics
- Dottrinari, or the Preti della Dottrina Cristiana, a Catholic organization
- Golden Air, an airline, DC in IATA code
- Dulwich College, an English secondary school
- DC, abbrevation for several Christian democratic parties throughout the world
- DC, the number 600 in Roman numerals
- DC, an Engrish abbreviation meaning "discount"
- Dossier criminal
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