MDC

See also: mdc

Translingual

Number

MDC

  1. The Roman numeral MDC (1,600)

English

Noun

MDC (plural MDCs)

  1. (US, law enforcement) Initialism of Metropolitan Detention Center.
  2. (computing) Initialism of mapped diagnostic context.
  3. (computing) Initialism of multiple description coding.
  4. (US) Initialism of Major Diagnostic Category.
  5. (cryptography) Initialism of modification detection code.
  6. Initialism of mobile digital computer.
  7. Initialism of mobile data computer.

Proper noun

MDC

  1. (British, historical) Initialism of Milk Development Council.
  2. (US) Initialism of Miami Dade College.
  3. (US) Initialism of Missouri Department of Conservation.
  4. (US) Initialism of MUMPS Development Committee.
  5. (Zimbabwe) Initialism of Movement for Democratic Change.
    • 2009 June 17, Blessing-Miles Tendi, “Tsvangirai's dicey strategy”, in The Guardian[1]:
      According to Ncube, the MDC believed, from 2000, that Britain's interest in Zimbabwe had more to do with concern for white farmers than black Zimbabweans.
  6. (telecommunications) Initialism of Motorola data communications.

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

Initialism of máximo divisor comum (greatest common divisor).

Noun

MDC m (uncountable)

  1. (mathematics) GCD