DCD

DCD is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, including:

Health and chemicals

• Developmental Coordination Disorders, also known as developmental dyspraxia, a type of motor learning difficulty
• Donation after Cardiac Death, an approach to organ donation, distinguished from donation after brain death
• Dermcidin, an anti-microbial peptide released by human sweat glands
• 2-Cyanoguanidine, a fertilizer also known as dicyandiamide
• Defective Comprehension Disorder, a temporary mental disorder resulting in lack of focus, small attention span, taking long periods to understand or carry out a statement, command, or request, and severe mood swings. Most common in teens and pre teens.

Music and entertainment

• Dead Can Dance, an eclectic world/ambient/gothic rock band from Australia
• Def Con Dos, a Spanish rap metal band
• The Japanese Tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Decade
• DCD Media, a television production and distribution company
• Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest distributor of comic books in the United States

Technology and design

• Data Carrier Detect, a term used with modems and the RS-232 interface
• Design class diagram, a diagram used in software engineering
• Device Capability Discovery, a protocol to establish the functionality supported by a mobile handset's hardware and software
• Document Content Description facility for XML, a Resource Description Framework vocabulary proposed as an XML schema language

Institutions

• Detroit Country Day School, a private school without any religious affiliation in Beverly Hills, Michigan
• Dubai Civil Defence, an Emergency Management Organisation of Dubai, United Arab Emirates

+ the Dedham Country Day School, USA Ma.

Other

• Dual currency deposit, a derivative instrument

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