dc meaning

• Noun: DC
  1. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia
     - District of Columbia, D.C. 
  2. An electric current that flows in one direction steadily
     - direct current, direct electric current

  Derived forms: DCs

  Type of: electrical energy, electricity, federal district

  Part of: America, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA

  Encyclopedia: DC

• 
  [Defence]
  Deputies Committee; direct current; dislocated civilian
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  [Electricity]
  See direct current
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  [Electronics]
  1. Abbreviation of DIRECT CURRENT.
  2. Abbreviation of direct-coupled.
  

[Medicine]
abbr
1 Dental Corps
2 diagnostic center
3 direct current
4 doctor of chiropractic

• 
  [Oil and gas]
  Drill Collar
• 
  [Computer]
  <language, tool> The Unix arbitrary precision postfix calculator and its language.
  
  Here is an example program which prints out factorials:
  
  

   echo "sy0sa1lyx" | dc 

  Unix manual page: dc(1).
  
  bc provides a somewhat more readable syntax which is compiled into dc. There is also a GNU DC.

• dc/s:    [Defence]for RA De ...
• dc-to-dc converter:    [Electricity]"An e ...
• dc-to-dc inverter:    [Electronics]See D ...

Examples

1. in many applications a fluctuating dc current is undesirable.
2. thus many measuremtents are made in the dc mode
3. multi-channel dc dc converters inductors transformers
4. multi-channel dc dc converters inductors transformers
5. design of dc servo motor driver based on lmd18200t