DC

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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 current which flows in only one direction

DC, D.C., D/C, Dc, or dc may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

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

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

Places

• Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), the capital of the United States
• Bogotá, Distrito Capital, the capital city of Colombia
• Dubai City
• West Sulawesi (vehicle registration prefix 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

Science, technology and mathematics

Sports

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

Other uses

• Demon Cat, a ghost cat in American folklore
• 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, UK

See also

Search for "dc" on Wikipedia.

• All pages with titles containing DC or DCs
• All pages with titles beginning with DC
• D&C (disambiguation)
• AC/DC (disambiguation)
• Divide and conquer (disambiguation)

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