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Meaning of DC | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
  2. Initialism of district court.
  3. Abbreviation of December.
    abbreviation, alt-of
  4. Alternative letter-case form of DC.
    alt-of
  5. Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
  6. Initialism of direct current.
  7. Initialism of double crochet.
  8. Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
  9. Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
  10. Initialism of Dreamcast, a home videogaming console from SEGA.
  11. Initialism of debit card.
  12. Ellipsis of DC Comics: Initialism of Detective Comics.
  13. Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
  14. Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; clipping of DCHP.
  15. Initialism of defined contributions.
  16. Abbreviation of Discord.
  17. Initialism of device context.
  18. Initialism of difficulty class.
  19. Initialism of disconnection.
  20. Initialism of district commissioner.
  21. Initialism of disciplinary control.
  22. Initialism of distribution center.

Equivalents

العربية تيار مستمر
Suomi tasavirta
Français DC
Bahasa Indonesia arus searah
Italiano dc
日本語 直流
한국어 직류
Nederlands gelijkspanning
Português DC

Examples

“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 as much common ground as can be found.””
“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).”
“I am getting huge lag spikes […] they are bad and long enough where you think it's a DC.”
“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.”
“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”
“Disciplinary Control is a form of segregation in which inmates who have been found guilty of an institutional rule, pursuant to the Administrative Rule (AR) 5120-9-08, may be placed. Per the AR 5120-9-11, inmates can receive placement in DC for 15 days as a result of a single rule violation or a series of rule violations arising from one event. An inmate can also receive an additional 15 days for two or more unrelated violations or for any violations committed while in DC. However, no inmate shall spend more than 30 consecutive days in DC.”
“We used a low-pressure (0.1 mbar) hydrogen-argon mixture (10% H 2 ) with dc plasma ignited between two aluminum electrodes.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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