DC explained

DC may stand for:

Biology

• A. P. de Candolle in botanical nomenclature, a botanist who developed an extensive system of botanical classification
• Dendritic cell, a type of immune cell
• Doctor of Chiropractic, a health care profession

Business

• DC Shoes, a clothing company that deals primarily with skateboarding gear.
• Dot-com business, any company that promoted itself as an Internet business during the stock market boom of the late 1990s
• DC, an acronym for Distribution center
• DC, Discount

Comics

• DC Comics, a comic book publisher
• Detective Comics, the comic book that gave DC Comics its name

Computers and software

• Data Center, facility that houses computing equipment
• Device Context, a handle for a data structure in Microsoft Windows' Graphical Device Interface subsystem
• Direct Connect (file sharing), a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
• DC++, a client which implements the Direct Connect protocol
• Distributed computing, decentralised and parallel computing
• Domain Component (LDAP), an attribute for DNS names in LDAP (e.g. dc=example,dc=com)
• Domain controller, a role for a server on a Windows network
• Dreamcast, a sixth generation video game console made by Sega
• Dublin Core, a metadata standard used to describe digital materials
• dc (Unix), a Unix command line RPN based calculator
• Dynamic contrast, a technology that attempts to improve the quality of dark images on LCD screens

Electricity

• Dielectric constant, an electrical term
• Direct current, the constant flow of electric charge in a single direction

Geography / Administrative Units

• Washington, District of Columbia, the capital territory of the United States
• Distrito capital, the capital district of a Spanish-speaking nation
  • Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital of Colombia
  • Venezuelan Capital District
• Dickenson County, a county in Virginia

Linguistics

• Dené-Caucasian, the hypothesis of the language superfamily, comprising North Caucasian, Basque, Burushaski, Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian and Na-Dené.

Mathematics

• Axiom of dependent choice, a weak form of the axiom of choice which is sufficient to develop most of real analysis
• One of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Military

• Dental corps, a special branch of the Army Medical Department (United States)
• Navy Dental Corps, a corps of naval officers who have either a Doctorate in Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine
• Royal Army Dental Corps, the specialist corps in the British Army that provides dental care services to British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace
• Damage control, a term used in merchant marines and navies for the emergency control of situations that may hazard the sinking of a ship or ships

Music

• Da capo, a musical term
• dc Talk, a Christian music group
• DC Talk, the first album by Christian music group dc Talk
• Drum Connection, a German music groupIcon
• Dixie Chicks, female country music group.
• Destiny's Child, female R&B group
• Dashboard Confessional, an American emo-rock group
• DC offset, a signal's offset from zero
• DC coefficient

People

• David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party
• Daniel Carter, an All Black, New Zealand's national rugby union team
• David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
• Daniel Craig, actor best known for his role as James Bond
• Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
• David Copperfield, American Illusionist
• Dave Coulier, actor, best known as Joey Gladstone on Full House

Television and film

• Dawson's Creek, a television series
• D. C. Fontana, screenplay writer
• D.C. (TV series), a Dick Wolf-created drama that aired for seven episodes in 2000 on The WB
• Dick Clark Productions
• Discovery Channel
• Disney Channel
• DCTV (DaimlerChrysler Television), the DaimlerChrysler TV channel.
• Digital terrestrial television in United States broadcast station classes, a class of technologies for broadcasting high-resolution television signals from earth-bound antennas
• Damage Control (TV series), a reality TV series created by MTV and hosted by Simple Plan frontman Pierre Bouvier
• Drew Carey

Transportation

• Daimler-Chrysler, a car manufacturer
• David Coulthard, a British Formula One driver
• Distribution center, any warehouse or other specialized building with refrigeration or air conditioning which are supplied by transport and then re-distributed to retailers or wholesalers, (DC)
• Douglas Aircraft Company in aircraft series designation, a defunct aircraft manufacturer of the United States
• Golden Air in IATA airline designation, a regional airline based in Trollhättan, Sweden

Others

• Dartmouth College, a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States
• Davidson College, a Presbyterian-affiliated liberal arts college of about 1,700 students in Davidson, North Carolina.
• Democrazia Cristiana, an Italian political party
• Developing country, any country with a relatively low standard of living, undeveloped industrial base, and moderate to low Human Development Index
• Dietitians of Canada, a professional association
• Difficulty Class, a basic concept of the d20 System of role-playing game mechanics
• District court, a category of courts which exists in several nations
• Donegal Celtic, a football club from West Belfast playing in the Irish Premier League
• Diet Coke, a famous soft drink without any sugar
• The number 600 in Roman numerals
• Dane Cook, a comedian/actor
• Digital camera, an electronic device used to capture and store photographs electronically in a digital format
• Detective Constable, lowest police rank of CID
• Dilation and curettage, a gynecological procedure.