# MDC

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
* 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)