DC

• District of Columbia, also known as Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
• Distrito capital, the capital district of a Spanish-speaking nation
  • Bogotá, D.C., the capital of Colombia

• Douglas Aircraft Company
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas. It is currently a part of Boeing's Commercial Airplanes...
  
  
• dc (computer program), a desktop calculator
• Device Context, a programming object within the Microsoft Windows API
• Direct Connect (file sharing)
  Direct Connect (file sharing)
  Direct connect is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol. Direct connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one another.Hubs feature a list of clients or users connected to them...
  
  , a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
• Distributed computing
  Distributed computing
  Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
  
  
• Domain controller
  Domain controller
  On Windows Server Systems, a domain controller is a server that responds to security authentication requests within the Windows Server domain....
  
  , a Microsoft Windows server that responds to security authentication requests
• Dublin Core
  Dublin Core
  The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easy to find. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials such as video, sound, image, text, and composite...
  
  , a metadata standard
• Dynamic contrast, a technology related to LCD screens
• Domain Component, an attribute for DNS names in LDAP
• DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme for digital television
• DCxx, product code for all Dyson vacuum cleaners
• DC-frames or DC-pictures, type of frames/pictures in MPEG

• Direct current
  Direct current
  Direct current is the undirectional flow of electric charge. Direct current is produced by such sources as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type. Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also be through...
  
  , the unidirectional flow of electric charge
• DC offset
  DC offset
  DC offset is an offsetting of a signal from zero. The term originated in electronics, where it refers to a direct current voltage, but the concept has been extended to any representation of a waveform. DC offset is the mean amplitude of the waveform; if the mean amplitude is zero, there is no DC...
  
  , the mean amplitude of a waveform
• DC bias, the mean value of a waveform in regard to a periodic function in the frequency domain

• D.C. (TV series)
  D.C. (TV series)
  D.C. is an American television series.In D.C., Mason Scott has just left college and all he wants to do is to go to Washington, D.C. He believes that he can make a difference. Mason's friend Pete Komisky sees D.C. corruption and doesn't think that it can be cleaned up and changed...
  
  
• DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
  
  , a comic book publisher
• DC Recordings, a record label
• The Deccan Chargers
  Deccan Chargers
  Deccan Chargers , is the franchise that represents the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. They are the current holders of the IPL Trophy, winning the second season held in South Africa in 2009....
  
  , a cricket team which represents hyderabad in the Indian Premier League
  Indian Premier League
  The Indian Premier League , is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi...
  
  
• Da capo
  Da capo
  Da Capo is a musical term in Italian, meaning from the beginning . It is often abbreviated D.C.. It is a composer or publisher's directive to repeat the previous part of music. In small pieces this might be the same thing as a repeat, but in larger works D.C...
  
  , a musical term
• Da Capo (visual novel)
• Dark Cloud
  Dark Cloud
  is role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2. It was developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The gameplay of Dark Cloud combines action role-playing with elements of city-building games...
  
  , a video game series
• Dashboard Confessional
  Dashboard Confessional
  Dashboard Confessional is an American band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The band started out as Carrabba playing intimately personal acoustic songs by himself, but eventually the outfit became a full band ensemble....
  
  , an American rock band
• Dane Cook
  Dane Cook
  Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He has released five comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed; Retaliation; Vicious Circle; Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden; and Isolated Incident. Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in 28...
  
  , American comedian whose self-given nickname is DC
• David Cook (singer)
  David Cook (singer)
  David Roland Cook is an American rock singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol...
  
  , winner of the seventh season of American Idol
• The Deccan Chronicle, a newspaper
• Destiny's Child
  Destiny's Child
  Destiny's Child was a Grammy-Award winning American R&B girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The group achieved four major studio albums and four US number-one singles, and sold over 50 million records worldwide becoming one of the...
  
  , a musical group
• Detective Conan, a manga also known as Case Closed
• Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It provides documentary programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history...
  
  
• Disney Channel
  Disney Channel
  Disney Channel is a cable television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience,...
  
  
• The Dixie Chicks, a country music group
• Dreamcast, a video game console
• Drum Connection
  Drum Connection
  Drum Connection is a German musical ensemble and pop group.The group was founded 1995 by Max van der Rose and had its first gig at the legendary Dance Of Elements....
  
  , a German musical group

• D. C. Fontana
  D. C. Fontana
  Dorothy Catherine "D. C." Fontana is a television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek series.-Work with Gene Roddenberry:...
  
   (b.

Capitals

• District of Columbia, also known as Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
• Distrito capital, the capital district of a Spanish-speaking nation
  • Bogotá, D.C., the capital of Colombia

Computing and technology

• Douglas Aircraft Company
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas. It is currently a part of Boeing's Commercial Airplanes...
  
  
• dc (computer program), a desktop calculator
• Device Context, a programming object within the Microsoft Windows API
• Direct Connect (file sharing)
  Direct Connect (file sharing)
  Direct connect is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol. Direct connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one another.Hubs feature a list of clients or users connected to them...
  
  , a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
• Distributed computing
  Distributed computing
  Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
  
  
• Domain controller
  Domain controller
  On Windows Server Systems, a domain controller is a server that responds to security authentication requests within the Windows Server domain....
  
  , a Microsoft Windows server that responds to security authentication requests
• Dublin Core
  Dublin Core
  The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It defines conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easy to find. Dublin Core is widely used to describe digital materials such as video, sound, image, text, and composite...
  
  , a metadata standard
• Dynamic contrast, a technology related to LCD screens
• Domain Component, an attribute for DNS names in LDAP
• DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme for digital television
• DCxx, product code for all Dyson vacuum cleaners
• DC-frames or DC-pictures, type of frames/pictures in MPEG

Electricity

• Direct current
  Direct current
  Direct current is the undirectional flow of electric charge. Direct current is produced by such sources as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type. Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also be through...
  
  , the unidirectional flow of electric charge
• DC offset
  DC offset
  DC offset is an offsetting of a signal from zero. The term originated in electronics, where it refers to a direct current voltage, but the concept has been extended to any representation of a waveform. DC offset is the mean amplitude of the waveform; if the mean amplitude is zero, there is no DC...
  
  , the mean amplitude of a waveform
• DC bias, the mean value of a waveform in regard to a periodic function in the frequency domain

Media, music and entertainment

• D.C. (TV series)
  D.C. (TV series)
  D.C. is an American television series.In D.C., Mason Scott has just left college and all he wants to do is to go to Washington, D.C. He believes that he can make a difference. Mason's friend Pete Komisky sees D.C. corruption and doesn't think that it can be cleaned up and changed...
  
  
• DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
  
  , a comic book publisher
• DC Recordings, a record label
• The Deccan Chargers
  Deccan Chargers
  Deccan Chargers , is the franchise that represents the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. They are the current holders of the IPL Trophy, winning the second season held in South Africa in 2009....
  
  , a cricket team which represents hyderabad in the Indian Premier League
  Indian Premier League
  The Indian Premier League , is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi...
  
  
• Da capo
  Da capo
  Da Capo is a musical term in Italian, meaning from the beginning . It is often abbreviated D.C.. It is a composer or publisher's directive to repeat the previous part of music. In small pieces this might be the same thing as a repeat, but in larger works D.C...
  
  , a musical term
• Da Capo (visual novel)
• Dark Cloud
  Dark Cloud
  is role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2. It was developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The gameplay of Dark Cloud combines action role-playing with elements of city-building games...
  
  , a video game series
• Dashboard Confessional
  Dashboard Confessional
  Dashboard Confessional is an American band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The band started out as Carrabba playing intimately personal acoustic songs by himself, but eventually the outfit became a full band ensemble....
  
  , an American rock band
• Dane Cook
  Dane Cook
  Dane Jeffrey Cook is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He has released five comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed; Retaliation; Vicious Circle; Rough Around The Edges: Live From Madison Square Garden; and Isolated Incident. Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in 28...
  
  , American comedian whose self-given nickname is DC
• David Cook (singer)
  David Cook (singer)
  David Roland Cook is an American rock singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol...
  
  , winner of the seventh season of American Idol
• The Deccan Chronicle, a newspaper
• Destiny's Child
  Destiny's Child
  Destiny's Child was a Grammy-Award winning American R&B girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The group achieved four major studio albums and four US number-one singles, and sold over 50 million records worldwide becoming one of the...
  
  , a musical group
• Detective Conan, a manga also known as Case Closed
• Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel
  Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It provides documentary programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history...
  
  
• Disney Channel
  Disney Channel
  Disney Channel is a cable television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience,...
  
  
• The Dixie Chicks, a country music group
• Dreamcast, a video game console
• Drum Connection
  Drum Connection
  Drum Connection is a German musical ensemble and pop group.The group was founded 1995 by Max van der Rose and had its first gig at the legendary Dance Of Elements....
  
  , a German musical group

People

• D. C. Fontana
  D. C. Fontana
  Dorothy Catherine "D. C." Fontana is a television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek series.-Work with Gene Roddenberry:...
  
   (b. 1939), screenwriter
• David Coulthard
  David Coulthard
  David Marshall Coulthard, often called DC, is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland. By virtue of a long career he has amassed a notable points haul, and lies seventh on the all-time scorers list, being the top British scorer...
  
   (b. 1971), British racing driver
• A. P. de Candolle
  A. P. de Candolle
  Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelt Augustin Pyrame de Candolle was a botanist. The author abbreviation used in citing plant names he published is "DC."....
  
   (1778-1841), a botanist abbreviated as DC in botanical nomenclature
• Dave Chappelle
  Dave Chappelle
  David Khari Webber "Dave" Chappelle is an American comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer, and actor. In 2003, he became widely known for his popular sketch comedy television series, Chappelle's Show. Comedy Central ranked him forty-third in the list of the 100 greatest stand-up...
  
  , African-American comedian

Other meanings

• DC Shoes
  DC Shoes
  DC Shoes is an American company specializing in footwear for extreme sports, including skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX, motocross, rally car racing, and surfing, as well as snowboards, shirts, jeans, hats, and jackets....
  
  , a footwear company
• Detective Constable, rank in the British police
• Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
  Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
  The Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, commonly referred to simply as the Deputy Commissioner, is the second-in-command of London's Metropolitan Police Service...
  
  , London Metropolitan Police Service senior rank
• Deccan Chargers
  Deccan Chargers
  Deccan Chargers , is the franchise that represents the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. They are the current holders of the IPL Trophy, winning the second season held in South Africa in 2009....
  
  , an Indian cricket franchise
• Defined contribution, a type of pension plan
• Dené-Caucasian, a language family
• Developed country
  Developed country
  The term developed country is used to describe countries that have a high level of development according to some criteria. Which criteria, and which countries are classified as being developed, is a contentious issue and there is fierce debate about this. Economic criteria have tended to dominate...
  
  
• Distribution center
  Distribution center
  A distribution center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked with products to be re-distributed to retailers, to wholesalers or directly to consumers. A distribution center is a principal part, the "order...
  
  
• Axiom of dependent choice
  Axiom of dependent choice
  In mathematics, the axiom of dependent choices, denoted DC, is a weak form of the axiom of choice which is still sufficient to develop most of real analysis...
  
  , a concept in mathematics
• Dottrinari
  Dottrinari
  The Dottrinari, or Preti della Dottrina Cristiana , in English called "Congregation of Christian Doctrine," is a religious institute of male consecrated Catholics...
  
  , or the Preti della Dottrina Cristiana, a Catholic organization
• Golden Air
  Golden Air
  Golden Air is a regional airline based in Trollhättan, Sweden. It operates scheduled services to destinations in Norway and Sweden, as well as ad hoc charter services...
  
  , an airline, DC in IATA code
• Dulwich College
  Dulwich College
  Dulwich College is an independent school for boys in Dulwich, south-east London, United Kingdom. The College was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift". It currently has about 1600...
  
  , an English secondary school
• Development control in the United Kingdom, the process of regulating land use and new building in the UK
• DC, abbreviation for several Christian democratic parties throughout the world
• DC, the number 600
  600 (number)
  600 is the natural number following 599 and preceding 601. It is a pronic number and a Harshad number.- In other fields :...
  
   in Roman numerals
• DC, an Engrish
  Engrish
  Engrish refers to non-standard variations of English often found in East Asian countries. Spelling may also be non-standard. While the term may refer to spoken English, it is more often used to describe written English, for which problems are easier to identify and publicize...
  
   abbreviation meaning "discount"
• Dossier criminal
  Dossier criminal
  Dossier Criminal is a term used extensively in the Indian Police forces for the classification of criminals. A dossier criminal is a person who has committed specific crimes across police circles or sub-divisions. In most of the cases a D.C would have already been in the Known Depredator list...