DC most often refers to:

  • Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital of the United States
  • DC Comics, an American comic book publisher
  • Direct current, electric current which flows in only one direction

DC, D.C., D/C, Dc, or dc may refer to:

Places

  • Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital city of Colombia
  • Dubai City

Science, technology and mathematics

  • dC, decicoulomb, a tenth of a Coulomb, the SI unit of electric charge
  • New Zealand DC class locomotive
  • Methylphosphonyl dichloride, a chemical weapons precursor
  • A don't care term, in digital logic
  • Drop center (DC) rim, see Single-piece wheel manufacturing

Biology and medicine

  • Dendritic cell, a class of immune cell
  • Doctor of Chiropractic, a qualification in alternative medicine

Computing

  • dc (computer program), a command-line based calculator on Unix-derived systems
  • DC coefficient, in a discrete cosine transform
  • Data center, a physical location housing computing-related gear
  • Device context, part of the legacy Microsoft Windows graphics API
  • Differential cryptanalysis
  • DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme
  • Direct Connect (protocol), for file sharing
  • Domain Component, an attribute in LDAP
  • Domain controller, a server used to manage a Microsoft Windows domain
  • Dublin Core, a metadata standard
  • Dynamic contrast, an LCD technology

Mathematics

  • dc (elliptic function), in complex analysis
  • Axiom of dependent choice, in set theory
  • DC, 600 in Roman numerals
  • DC, 220 in hexadecimal

Arts, entertainment and media

  • D.C. (TV series)
  • Detective Comics, a comic book series published by DC Comics
  • DC Inside, a South Korean internet forum
  • "DC" (Succession), a television episode

Music

  • Da capo, a musical term
  • Destiny's Child, an American R&B group

Video games

  • Da Capo (visual novel)
  • Desert Combat, a Battlefield 1942 mod
  • Dino Crisis, a survival horror game series

Companies and products

  • DC Recordings, a record label
  • DC Shoes, an American sports footwear company
  • Delta Clipper, a proposed rocketship series by McDonnell Douglas
  • DC (Douglas Commercial), a series of aircraft by the Douglas Aircraft Company (and later 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 police rank
  • District collector, an Indian Administrative Service position
  • Deputy commissioner, an administrative rank
  • Dossier criminal, in Indian policing

People

  • D/C, stage name of British singer-songwriter Dan Caplen
  • Daniel Cormier (born 1979) Olympic wrestler and heavyweight mixed martial artist
  • David Coulthard (born 1971) British racing driver, known as DC
  • DC., the standard author abbreviation for botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841)
  • Donald L. Cox (1936–2011), American leader of the Black Panther Party, known as Field Marshal DC

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
  • Deuterocanon, books of the Bible which are considered non-canonical by Protestant denominations

Schools

  • Delaware County Christian School, in Pennsylvania, US
  • Dhaka College, in Bangladesh
  • Dominican Convent High School, Bulawayo, a Catholic high school for girls in Zimbabwe
  • Dominican Convent Primary School, Bulawayo, a Catholic preparatory school for girls in Zimbabwe

Sports

  • Delhi Capitals, an Indian Premier League cricket franchise
  • Deccan Chargers, a former Indian Premier League cricket franchise

Other uses

  • Demon Cat, a ghost cat in American folklore
  • Distribution center, a building stocked with goods for delivery
  • Dream character, an imaginary entity in a person's dreams
  • Drower Collection, a collection of Mandaic manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, United Kingdom
  • West Sulawesi (vehicle registration prefix DC)

See also

  • D&C (disambiguation)
  • AC/DC (disambiguation)
  • Divide and conquer (disambiguation)