# DC

DC most often refers to:
* Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital of the United States
* DC Comics, an American comic book publisher
* Direct current, electric lithoing current which flows in only one direction
DC, D.C., D/C, Dc, or dc may refer to:

## Places

* Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital city of Colombia
* Dubai City

## Science, technology and mathematics

* dC, decicoulomb, a tenth of a Coulomb, the SI unit of electric charge
* New Zealand DC class locomotive
* Methylphosphonyl dichloride, a chemical weapons precursor
* A don't care term, in digital logic

### Biology and medicine

* Dendritic cell, a class of immune cell
* Doctor of Chiropractic, a qualification in alternative medicine

### Computing

* dc (computer program), a command-line based calculator on Unix-derived systems
* DC coefficient, in a discrete cosine transform
* Data center, a physical location housing computing-related gear
* Device context, part of the legacy Microsoft Windows graphics API
* Differential cryptanalysis
* DigiCipher, a digital encoding scheme
* Direct Connect (protocol), for file sharing
* Domain Component, an attribute in LDAP
* Domain controller, a server used to manage a Microsoft Windows domain
* Dublin Core, a metadata standard
* Dynamic contrast, an LCD technology

### Mathematics

* dc (elliptic function), in complex analysis
* Axiom of dependent choice, in set theory
* DC, 600 in Roman numerals
* DC, 220 in hexadecimal

## Arts, entertainment and media

* D.C. (TV series)
* Detective Comics, a comic book series published by DC Comics
* DC Inside, a South Korean internet forum
* "DC" (Succession), a television episode

### Music

* Da capo, a musical term
* Destiny's Child, an American R&B group
* Drum Connection, a German pop group

### Video games

* Da Capo (visual novel)
* Desert Combat, a Battlefield 1942 mod
* Dino Crisis, a survival horror game series

## Companies and products

* DC Recordings, a record label
* DC Shoes, an American sports footwear company
* Delta Clipper, a proposed rocketship series by McDonnell Douglas
* DC (Douglas Commercial), a series of aircraft by the Douglas Aircraft Company (and later McDonnell Douglas)
* Dyson vacuum cleaners, which use product code prefix DC
* Golden Air, an airline (IATA code DC)

## Government, law, and military

* Christian Democracy (Italy), a political party
* Christian Democracy (Brazil), a political party
* Detective constable, a police rank
* District collector, an Indian Administrative Service position
* Deputy commissioner, an administrative rank
* Dossier criminal, in Indian policing

## People

* D/C, stage name of British singer-songwriter Dan Caplen
* Daniel Cormier (born 1979) Olympic wrestler and heavyweight mixed martial artist
* David Coulthard (born 1971) British racing driver, known as DC
* DC., the standard author abbreviation for botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841)
* Donald L. Cox (1936–2011), American leader of the Black Panther Party, known as Field Marshal DC

## Religion

* DC, a dominical letter indicating a leap year starting on Thursday
* Christian Doctrine Fathers, a Catholic organization
* Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, a Society of Apostolic Life for women within the Catholic Church
* Deuterocanon, books of the Bible which are considered non-canonical by Protestant denominations

## Schools

* Delaware County Christian School, in Pennsylvania, US
* Dhaka College, in Bangladesh
* Dominican Convent High School, Bulawayo, a Catholic high school for girls in Zimbabwe
* Dominican Convent Primary School, Bulawayo, a Catholic preparatory school for girls in Zimbabwe

## Sports

* Delhi Capitals, an Indian Premier League cricket franchise
* Deccan Chargers, a former Indian Premier League cricket franchise

## Other uses

* Distribution center, a building stocked with goods for delivery
* Dream character, an imaginary entity in a person's dreams
* Drower Collection, a collection of Mandaic manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, United Kingdom