DIC may refer to:

Biology and chemistry

  • Diisopropylcarbodiimide, a reagent in organic chemistry
  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation, a pathological activation of coagulation (blood clotting) mechanisms
  • Dissolved inorganic carbon, the sum of inorganic carbon species in a solution
  • Dic (crustacean), a genus of crustacean in the family Diastylidae

Companies

  • D.I.C. (department store), a New Zealand department store chain
  • DIC Corporation, a Japanese chemical company
  • DIC Entertainment, a former film and television production company
  • Dic Press, an imprint of VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
  • Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan
  • Dubai International Capital, a private equity company

Technology

  • Differential interference contrast microscopy, an illumination technique in optical microscopy
  • Digital image correlation, an optical method that employs tracking and image registration techniques
  • Digital integrating computer, a digital implementation of a Differential Analyzer
  • Dependency injection container, a dependency management technique in software development.

Other

  • Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran), an Indian political party
  • Deviance information criterion, a diagnostic statistic used in Bayesian model selection
  • Dicyclic group
  • Diploma of Imperial College, awarded by Imperial College London
  • Drive-In Classics, a Canadian television station
  • Drunk in charge, a drink driving crime in the United Kingdom
  • Dubai Industrial City, a dedicated industrial city
  • Dubai Internet City, an information technology park

See also

  • DIK
  • Dick (disambiguation)