MDC may refer to:

Arts

  • Macau Design Centre, an art center in Macau
  • MDC (band) (Millions of Dead Cops), an American rock band
  • M.D.C. - Maschera di cera, a 1997 Italian horror film
  • Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Chemistry and biology

  • Methylene dichloride, also known as dichloromethane (DCM)
  • Macrophage-derived chemokine (CCL22), a human cytokine
  • Metalloproteinase-like disintegrin-like cysteine-rich proteins, another name for the ADAM protein family
  • Biotin-independent malonate decarboxylase, an enzyme
  • Methylenedioxycathinone, a synthetic stimulant of the cathinone class
  • Myeloid dendritic cell, a subtype of the dendritic immune cell

Computing and electronics

  • MDC-600 and MDC-1200, an AFSK mobile data format used in Motorola two-way radios
  • Message digest code, cryptographic hash value
  • Metadata controller, which manages file locking, space allocation and data access authorization in a storage area network (SAN)
  • Mobile data computer, law enforcement mobile terminal / computer (MDT/MDC)
  • Mobile daughter card
  • Modification Detection Code
  • MDN Web Docs (formerly Mozilla Developer Center), a Mozilla website for developer documentation.
  • Multiple description coding, coding technique
  • Merkle–Damgård construction, a construction used by many hash functions
  • Mapped Diagnostic Context, a Log4j mechanism used to pass additional information to the underlying logger to provide better logging information on a per thread basis
  • Micro data center, a containerized self-sufficient data center

Geography

  • Manado Airport, Indonesian airport
  • More developed country
  • Model dwellings company

Organizations

  • Mater Dei College, Tubigon, Bohol, Philippines
  • Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
  • McDonnell Douglas, American aerospace manufacturing corporation which was acquired by Boeing in 1997
  • MDC Holdings, American home builder company
  • MDC Partners, an American advertising and marketing holding company
  • Medicaid Dental Center, chain of dental clinics in North Carolina
  • Metropolitan Detention Centers, US federal prisons
  • Metropolitan District Commission, defunct Massachusetts organization now part of the DCR
  • Metropolitan District Commission, Connecticut municipal corporation and utilities provider
  • Missouri Department of Conservation
  • Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida
  • Movement for Democratic Change (pre-2005), a former Zimbabwean political party (split into MDC-T and MDC-N)
  • Movement for Democratic Change (2018), a Zimbabwean political party formed as a merger of parties that descended from the original MDC
  • Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC-T), a Zimbabwean political party
  • Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube (MDC-N), a former Zimbabwean political party (merged into UMDC)
  • Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, an electoral bloc formed in Zimbabwe in 2017
  • MUMPS Development Committee, an organization that defines the MUMPS computer language and created the ANSI and ISO standards for MUMPS.
  • United Movement for Democratic Change, a Zimbabwean political party founded in 2014

Sports

  • Mon-Dak Conference, junior college conference in Montana and North Dakota
  • Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, professional cheerleading squad of the Miami Dolphins
  • Michael Dal Colle, professional ice hockey winger for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League

Other uses

  • 1600 (number), a Roman numeral
  • Manuel de Codage, abbr. MdC, a system for transliterating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Major Diagnostic Category, the groupings of the roughly 751 Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs)