MDC may refer to:

Arts

Macau Design Centre The Macau Design Centre (MDC; ) is a center in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau, China to promote cultural creative industry in the region. History The center was established on 15 November 2014 by Macau Designers Association. Architecture The ...

, an art center in Macau *

MDC (band) MDC is an American punk rock band formed in 1979 in Austin, Texas, subsequently based in San Francisco, and currently Portland, Oregon. Among the first wave of bands to define the sound and style of American hardcore punk, MDC originally formed ...

(Millions of Dead Cops), an American rock band *'' M.D.C. - Maschera di cera'', a 1997 Italian horror film *

Marinette Dupain-Cheng Marinette Dupain-Cheng () is a fictional character and the female protagonist of the animated television series '' Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir'' created by Thomas Astruc. Depicted as a teenage student of Chinese and French descent, ...

, the protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Chemistry and biology

Methylene dichloride Dichloromethane (DCM or methylene chloride, methylene bichloride) is an organochlorine compound with the formula . This colorless, volatile liquid with a chloroform-like, sweet odour is widely used as a solvent. Although it is not miscible wit ...

, also known as dichloromethane (DCM) * Macrophage-derived chemokine (CCL22), a human cytokine *Metalloproteinase-like disintegrin-like cysteine-rich proteins, another name for the ADAM protein family * Biotin-independent malonate decarboxylase, an enzyme * Methylenedioxycathinone, a synthetic stimulant of the cathinone class * Myeloid dendritic cell, a subtype of the dendritic immune cell

Computing and electronics

* MDC-600 and MDC-1200, an AFSK mobile data format used in Motorola two-way radios * Message digest code, cryptographic hash value *

Metadata controller Metadata controller (or MDC) is a storage area network (SAN) technology for managing file locking File locking is a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file, or to a region of a file, by allowing only one user or process to modify or ...

, which manages file locking, space allocation and data access authorization in a storage area network (SAN) * Mobile data computer * Mobile daughter card *

Modification Detection Code A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with fixed size of n bits) that has special properties desirable for cryptography: * the probability of a particular n-bit output ...

* MDN Web Docs (formerly Mozilla Developer Center), a Mozilla website for developer documentation. *

Multiple description coding Multiple description coding (MDC) in computing is a Channel coding, coding technique that fragments a single Streaming media, media stream into ''n'' substreams (''n'' ≥ 2) referred to as descriptions. The Packet (information technology ...

, coding technique * Merkle–Damgård construction, a construction used by many hash functions * Mapped Diagnostic Context, a

Log4j Apache Log4j is a Java-based logging utility originally written by Ceki Gülcü. It is part of the Apache Logging Services, a project of the Apache Software Foundation. Log4j is one of several Java logging frameworks. Gülcü has since crea ...

mechanism used to pass additional information to the underlying logger to provide better logging information on a per thread basis *

Micro Data Center A data center (American English) or data centre (British English)See spelling differences. is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunic ...

a containerized self-sufficient data center

Geography

Manado Airport Sam Ratulangi International Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Internasional Sam Ratulangi) , is located in North Sulawesi, northeast of Manado. The airport is named after the Minahasan educator and independence hero Sam Ratulangi (1890–1949). It is ...

, Indonesian airport *More

developed country A developed country (or industrialized country, high-income country, more economically developed country (MEDC), advanced country) is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy and advanced technological infrastruct ...

* Model dwellings company

Organizations

Mater Dei College Mater Dei College also referred to by its acronym MDC is a private, Roman Catholic, co-educational basic and higher education institution located located in Tubigon, Bohol, Philippines. It was established in 1983. History It was during the te ...

, Tubigon, Bohol, Philippines *

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) ...

, Berlin *

McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it produ ...

, American aerospace manufacturing corporation which was acquired by

Boeing The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product ...

in 1997 *

MDC Holdings M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. is a new home construction company with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The company was founded by Larry A. Mizel as Mizel Development Corporation in 1972. The first homebuilding subsidiary began operation in 1977, primar ...

, American home builder company *

MDC Partners MDC Partners Inc. is an advertising and marketing holding company based in New York City. MDC is structured as a partnership model, in which it initially acquires a majority stake in its partner agency, leaving a percentage of ownership with the f ...

, an American advertising and marketing holding company *

Medicaid Dental Center Smile Starters Dental, formerly Medicaid Dental Center (MDC), is a chain of dental clinics in North Carolina. As MDC, it operated under the names Smile Starters and Carolina Dental Center.Beeker, Ladonna.Dentist closes clinic"Archive '' The Observe ...

, chain of dental clinics in North Carolina *

Metropolitan Detention Center A Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) is a United States Federal government detention facility (prison) operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. There are MDCs throughout the United States. An MDC, unlike a Federal Penitentiary, is designed t ...

s, US federal prisons * Metropolitan District Commission, defunct Massachusetts organization now part of the DCR * Metropolitan District Commission, Connecticut municipal corporation and utilities provider * Missouri Department of Conservation * Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida *

Movement for Democratic Change (pre-2005) Movement for Democratic Change or MDC may refer to: * Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T), the former main opposition party in Zimbabwe ** Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai Congress 2006, the second MDC–T congress ...

, a former Zimbabwean political party (split into MDC-T and MDC-N) *

Movement for Democratic Change (2018) The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance was an electoral coalition of seven political parties formed to contest Zimbabwe's 2018 general election. After the 2018 election, a dispute arose over the use of the name MDC Alliance leading the MDC ...

, a Zimbabwean political party formed as a merger of parties that descended from the original MDC *

Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai The Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC–T) is a centre-left political party and was the main opposition party in the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 elections. After the split of the original Movement for Democ ...

(MDC-T), a Zimbabwean political party *

Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube The Movement for Democratic Change – Ncube (MDC–N) was a Zimbabwean political party led by politician and attorney Welshman Ncube. It was founded in 2005 when the Movement for Democratic Change split apart and in the 2008 general el ...

(MDC-N), a former Zimbabwean political party (merged into UMDC) *

Movement for Democratic Change Alliance The Movement for Democratic Change Alliance was an electoral coalition of seven political parties formed to contest Zimbabwe's 2018 general election. After the 2018 election, a dispute arose over the use of the name MDC Alliance leading the MDC ...

, an electoral bloc formed in Zimbabwe in 2017 * MUMPS Development Committee, an organization that defines the

MUMPS MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or M, is an imperative, high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database. It was originally developed at Massachusetts Gener ...

computer language and created the ANSI and ISO standards for MUMPS. * United Movement for Democratic Change, a Zimbabwean political party founded in 2014

Sports

Mon-Dak Conference The Mon-Dak Conference (MDC) is a junior college conference for eight Tech and Community Colleges located in Montana and North Dakota, and it is a conference in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). Conference championships ar ...

, junior college conference in Montana and North Dakota * Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, professional cheerleading squad of the Miami Dolphins *

Michael Dal Colle Michael Dal Colle (born June 20, 1996) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing in the Liiga with HC TPS. Before signing with HC TPS he played for the Bridgeport Islanders of the American Hockey League (AHL) while un ...

, professional ice hockey winger for the

New York Islanders The New York Islanders (colloquially known as the Isles) are a professional ice hockey team based in Elmont, New York. The Islanders compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference ( ...

of the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...

Other uses

* 1600 (number), a Roman numeral *

Manuel de Codage The Manuel de Codage (), abbreviated MdC, is a standard system for the computer-encoding of transliterations of Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. History In 1984 a committee was charged with the task to develop a uniform system for the encoding of hiero ...

, abbr. MdC, a system for transliterating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs *

Major Diagnostic Category The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses (from ICD-9-CM) into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas. MDC codes, like diagnosis-related group (DRG) codes, are primarily a claims and administrative ...

, the groupings of the roughly 751 Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs) {{Disambiguation