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DC¹

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism 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 go, this state, this House, and look at it from the perspective of trying to find
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Dreamcast, a home videogaming console from SEGA.
  5. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of DC Comics: Initialism of Detective Comics.
  6. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; clipping of DCHP.
  7. abbreviation, informal Abbreviation of Discord

noun DCs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of district court
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of direct current
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable 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. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of debit card
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of disease control
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  7. UK, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of defined contributions
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of device context
  9. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of difficulty class
  10. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of disconnection/disconnect I am getting huge lag spikes […] they are bad and long enough where you think it's a DC.
  11. Kenya, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable 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.
  12. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable 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
  13. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of distribution center

adverb

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of da capo
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of diagonally to the center

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of direct coded

verb DCs · DC's · DCing · DC'ing · DCd

  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.
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of discontinue med dc'd

dc²

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of direct current We used a low-pressure (0.1 mbar) hydrogen-argon mixture (10% H₂) with dc plasma ignited between two aluminum electrodes.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of double crochet dc – double crochet

Dc³

noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of December

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: direct current, dg, washington, washington dc, washington d.c., district, federal city, american capital, capital, capital city, beltway, the district, the capitol, capitol hill, foggy bottom, dmv

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noun direct current

한국어직류 jingnyu
日本語直流 chokuryū
Русскийпостоя́нный ток postojánnyj tok

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@misc{dc_2026,
  title = {dc},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}