DC

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.

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.

11. (prison) Initialism of disciplinary control.
    • 1984 February 11, M. Kathleen Humphreys, “Just To Be Held”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 29, page 4:

      I'd give my state pay for the next year just to be held for a few minutes without fear of being put in DC

    • 2010 June 16, Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (Ohio), Inspection and Evaluation of the Trumbull Correctional Institute‎, page 50:

      Disciplinary Control is a form of segregation in which inmates who have been found guilty of an institutional rule, pursuant to the Administrative Rule (AR) 5120-9-08, may be placed. Per the AR 5120-9-11, inmates can receive placement in DC for 15 days as a result of a single rule violation or a series of rule violations arising from one event. An inmate can also receive an additional 15 days for two or more unrelated violations or for any violations committed while in DC. However, no inmate shall spend more than 30 consecutive days in DC.

12. (business) Initialism of distribution center.

DC

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

DC (not comparable)

1. (video coding) Initialism of direct coded.

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

• Llanarmon DC

• C&D, cD, C.D., CD, 🄭

From English Discord.

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DC

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

• D.C.

DC f

1. initialism of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy)

DC (not comparable)

1. AD (after the birth of Christ)