DC

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See also: D. C., D.C., D&C, Dc, d.C., d/c, dC, and dc

English

Proper noun

DC

  1. Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
  2. (aviation) Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
  3. Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
  4. Initialism of Dreamcast. A home videogaming console from SEGA.
  5. Ellipsis of DC Comics.: Initialism of Detective Comics.
    Coordinate terms: DCU, DCEU, DCAU, DCverse
  6. Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; Clipping of DCHP.
  7. (informal) Abbreviation of Discord.

Noun

DC (countable and uncountable, plural DCs)

  1. (law) Initialism of district court.
  2. (electrical) Initialism of direct current.
  3. (degree) Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
    • 2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour‎:
      Dr. Keith Kimberlin for example, who recently shared video in which he claimed that most sunscreen “is toxic” and “more dangerous than burning,” is a chiropractor with a doctorate of chiropractic degree (DC).
  4. (banking) Initialism of debit card.
  5. (law enforcement) Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  6. (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined contributions.
  7. (computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.
  8. (roleplaying games) Initialism of difficulty class.
  9. (computing) Initialism of disconnection.
    • 2012 February 6, "u n [email protected] IYM", “Re: Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft‎ (Usenet):
      I am getting huge lag spikes […] they are bad and long enough where you think it's a DC.
  10. (Kenya) Initialism of district commissioner.
    • 2011, Emily Boyd, Carl Folke, Adapting Institutions, page 62:
      The DC reasoned that since it was only the ancestrals who had a problem with the incident, they should supply the bulls necessary to purify the forest.

Antonyms

direct current

Coordinate terms

law enforcement

Derived terms

direct current
law enforcement
law enforcement

Translations

Adverb

DC

  1. (music) Initialism of da capo.
  2. (dance) Initialism of diagonally to the center.
diagonally to the center

Adjective

DC (not comparable)

  1. (video coding) Initialism of direct coded.

Verb

DC (third-person singular simple present DCs, present participle DCing, simple past and past participle DCed or DC'd)

  1. (computing) To become disconnected from a network.
    • 2012 February 3, "ToolPackinMama", “Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft‎ (Usenet):
      Since the patch I have been randomly DCing and it's at times completely game-breaking. For example,just now my Paladin was questing in Thou Needles, and I DC'd several times within a few minutes.
  2. (medicine) Abbreviation of discontinue.
    med dc'd

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

From English Discord.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

DC

  1. (Hong Kong, Taiwan) Short for Discord.

Italian

Alternative forms

Proper noun

DC f

  1. Initialism of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Adverb

DC (not comparable)

  1. AD (after the birth of Christ)
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