IDC

IDC is an initialism that can stand for:

Business and organizations

*International Data Corporation a research company and subsidiary of International Data Group
*Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay
*Interactive Data Corporation, a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors.
*Information Dominance Center, an element of the US Army Intelligence & Security Command, located at Ft Belvoir, VA
* Invensys Development Centre, a global common software development centre
*International Development Course, an association of one day courses in international development in various British universities, including Cambridge, Oxford and Cardiff.
*Industrial Development Corporation also know as Castle Grande a real estate development in Arkansas. It came into National news as a result of the Whitewater investigations.
* Inter Discipline Check, document check by other related disciplines.

chools

*Institut de cognitique, a school of engineering in France
*Interdisciplinary Center, a college in Herzliya, Israel

Government

* Indigent Defense Coordinator, see Public defender.

Medical

*Dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle
*Infiltrating ductal carcinoma, a type of breast cancer
*Indwelling Catheter, a tube inserted into the urinary bladder for ongoing drainage
*Interdigitating dendritic cells, antigen presenting cells of the immune system found in lymph nodes

Other generic uses

*Insulation-displacement connector, a connector that pierces the insulation on a wire to make the connection
*IDC scripting language, used in IDA Pro Interactive Disassembler
*indirect costs, in financial contexts, otherwise known as "facilities and administrative costs"
*"Intelligent design and Creationism", summary term for theories on the origin of life which de-emphasize or deny natural selection and/or advocate special creation
*Internet data center, a place established by a service provider to provide stable and wide-band networks and high performance computers as a service to their customers
*Interest During Construction, in project finance interest on debt paid during construction period (before start of operation).
*IDC, an un-named software production team.
*IDC is an Independent Duty Corpsmen for the US Navy,
*Ideograph Description Character in Unicode,
*IDC, Internet Database Connector File format.
*Inventory Driven Costs - Descriptor for business inventory costs: lower cost of market, standard revision, scrap & rework, etc.

Popular culture

*Iris deactivation code, in the "Stargate SG-1" TV show, a code sent through an open stargate to request the iris be opened
*"I don't care.", Internet slang used in Instant Messenger conversations, first used in internet game RuneScape.
*"In due course"
* IDC (music), the recording artist/DJ/producer