DC

Initialism of direct coded.

Adjective

  1. Initialism of direct coded.

Adverb

  1. Initialism of da capo.
  2. Initialism of diagonally to the center.

Related

BDC BDW DW FDC FDW

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
    • Coleman, who previously broke quorum but did not join others in DC due to a recent leg amputation, gave the invocation Thursday, saying in part, “I pray that we, all of us look inside about where we want this world to...
  2. 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. Abbreviation of Discord.

Noun

  1. Initialism of district court.
  2. Initialism of direct current.

    Coordinate Terms: AC

    Related: dc

  3. Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
    • Dr. Keith Kimberlin for example, who recently shared video in which he claimed that most sunscreen “is toxic” and “more dangerous than [sun]burning,” is a chiropractor with a doctorate of chiropractic degree (DC). -...
  4. Initialism of debit card.
  5. Initialism of disease control.

    Coordinate Terms: HC

  6. Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  7. Initialism of defined contributions.
  8. Initialism of device context.
  9. Initialism of difficulty class.
  10. Initialism of disconnection/disconnect.
    • I am getting huge lag spikes […] they are bad and long enough where you think it's a DC. - 2012 February 6, "u n [email protected] IYM", “Re: Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):
  11. Initialism of district commissioner.
    • 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. - 2011, Emily Boyd, Carl Folke, Adapting Institutions, page 62:
  12. Initialism of disciplinary control.
    • 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 - 1984 February 11, M. Kathleen Humphreys, “Just To Be Held”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 29, page 4:
    • 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...

Forms

DCs

Related

DCI DI DS

Derived

AC/DC WDC

Verb

  1. To become disconnected from a network.
    • 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. - 2012 February 3,...
  2. Abbreviation of discontinue.
    • med dc'd

Forms

DCs DC's DCing DC'ing DCd DCed DC'd DC'ed

Related

Llanarmon DC