MDC may refer to:

Arts

* Macau Design Centre, an art center in Macau * MDC (band) (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 C-C motif chemokine 22 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CCL22'' gene. The protein encoded by this gene is secreted by dendritic cells and macrophage Macrophages (abbreviated as M φ, MΦ or MP) ( el, large eaters, from Greek ...

(CCL22), a human cytokine *Metalloproteinase-like disintegrin-like cysteine-rich proteins, another name for the ADAM protein family *

Biotin-independent malonate decarboxylase Biotin-independent malonate decarboxylase (, ''malonate decarboxylase (without biotin)'', ''malonate decarboxylase'', ''MDC'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''malonate carboxy-lyase (biotin-independent)''. This enzyme catalyses the following ...

, an enzyme *

Methylenedioxycathinone 3,4-Methylenedioxycathinone (also known as MDC, Nitrilone, Amylone and βk-MDA) is an empathogen and stimulant of the phenethylamine, amphetamine, and cathinone classes and the β-keto analogue of MDA. Methylenedioxycathinone has been investi ...

, 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 A mobile data terminal (MDT) or mobile digital computer (MDC) is a computerized device used in emergency services, public transport, taxicabs, package delivery, roadside assistance, and logistics, among other fields, to communicate with a ...

* 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, coding technique * Merkle–Damgård construction, a construction used by many hash functions * Mapped Diagnostic Context, a Log4j 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, Berlin * McDonnell Douglas, American aerospace manufacturing corporation which was acquired by Boeing 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, 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), a former Zimbabwean political party (split into MDC-T and MDC-N) * Movement for Democratic Change (2018), 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 (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, junior college conference in Montana and North Dakota * Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders, professional cheerleading squad of the Miami Dolphins * Michael Dal Colle, 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

Other uses

* 1600 (number), a Roman numeral * Manuel de Codage, abbr. MdC, a system for transliterating ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs * Major Diagnostic Category, the groupings of the roughly 751 Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRGs) {{Disambiguation