ADC may refer to:

Aviation

ADC Aircraft The Aircraft Disposal Company (ADC), or Airdisco, was a British firm established in March 1920 to take advantage of the large number of World War I-surplus military aircraft on the market.Gunston 2005, p.7. The company changed name in 1925 to A ...

, a British firm established in 1920 * ADC Airlines, based in Ikeja, Nigeria *

Aerospace Defense Command Aerospace Defense Command was a major command of the United States Air Force, responsible for air defense of the continental United States. It was activated in 1968 and disbanded in 1980. Its predecessor, Air Defense Command, was establishe ...

, of the U.S. Air Force *

Air data computer An air data computer (ADC) or central air data computer (CADC) computes altitude, vertical speed, air speed, and Mach number from pressure and temperature inputs. It is an essential avionics component found in modern aircraft. This computer, ra ...

, an essential avionics component found in modern glass cockpits * IATA airport code for Andakombe Airport in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Organisations

Arts

ADC Theatre The ADC Theatre (full name: ''Amateur Dramatic Club Theatre'') is a theatre in Cambridge, England, and also a department of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Park Street, north off Jesus Lane. The theatre is owned by a trust on be ...

, venue of the University of Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Club *

Art Directors Club of New York The Art Directors Club of New York is an organization for art directors in New York City. It was founded in 1920, and has grown as an industry group, promoting art directors' work through exhibitions and awards, including the annual DESI award fo ...

, a professional association *

Australian Dance Council The Australian Dance Council, known as Ausdance or Ausdance National and formerly the Australian Association for Dance Education (AADE), is or was the national dance advocacy organisation in Australia, representing the dance profession and coordi ...

, a national dance advocacy organisation *

Hong Kong Arts Development Council The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) is a Statutory authority, statutory body in Hong Kong tasked with development of the arts in the territory. The HKADC was created in 1995, under the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Ordinance, ...

, a statutory body in Hong Kong

Government and politics

* Aboriginal Development Commission, an Australian statutory body that existed from 1980 to 1990 *

African Democratic Congress The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is a political party in Nigeria. As of 2022, Ralph Nwosu is the National Chairman. There are 2 ADC lawmakers currently in the Nigerian National Assembly. There are no ADC senators in the Nigerian Senate. H ...

, a political party in Nigeria *

Alliance for Democratic Change The Alliance for Democratic Change (ADC) is a political party in Tanzania Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Ke ...

, a political party in Tanzania *

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) states that it is "the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States." According to its webpage, it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicitie ...

, a civil rights organization * American Deserters Committee, an anti-Vietnam War group *

Arizona Department of Corrections The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR), commonly and formerly referred to as simply the Arizona Department of Corrections, is the statutory law enforcement agency responsible for the incarceration of inmates in 13 ...

, US *

Arkansas Department of Correction The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC), formerly the Arkansas Department of Correction, is the state law enforcement agency that oversees inmates and operates state prisons within the U.S. state of Arkansas. DOC consists of two divisions, ...

, US * Ashfield District Council, Nottinghamshire, England * ''

Asociación Democrática de Colima The Colima Democratic Association (, ADC) is a political party from the State of Colima, Mexico. Carlos Vázquez Oldenbourg together with other politicians from Colima founded the ADC in late 2001; the party was officially established in 2002 ...

'', a political party from the State of Colima, Mexico

Others

* Acadia Divinity College, a seminary on the campus of Acadia University, Canada * ADC Map, an American map publisher * ADC Telecommunications, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota *

Australian Defence College The Australian Defence College (ADC) comprises three joint education and training organisations operated by the Australian Defence Force in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: * the War College, * the Australian Defence Force Training Cent ...

, Weston Creek, Canberra *

Advanced Digital Corporation Advanced Digital Corporation (ADC) was a privately owned American computer company based in California, active from the 1980s to the 1990s. The company was founded by 1980 by a group of engineers, in order to market their single-user and multi-use ...

, a defunct computer company of Southern California

Science and medicine

ADC (gene) Antizyme inhibitor 2 (AzI2) also erroneously known as arginine decarboxylase (ADC) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''AZIN2'' gene In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The ...

, a human gene *

AIDS dementia complex HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) are neurological disorders associated with HIV infection and AIDS. It is a syndrome of progressive deterioration of memory, cognition, behavior, and motor function in HIV-infected individuals during ...

, neurological disorder associated with HIV and AIDS *

Allyl diglycol carbonate Poly(allyl diglycol carbonate) (PADC) is a plastic commonly used in the manufacture of eyeglass lenses alongside the material PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate). The monomer is allyl diglycol carbonate (ADC). The term CR-39 technically refers to th ...

or CR-39, a polymer * Antibody-drug conjugate, a type of anticancer treatment *

Apparent diffusion coefficient Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI or DW-MRI) is the use of specific MRI sequences as well as software that generates images from the resulting data that uses the diffusion of water molecules to generate contrast in MR images. It ...

, a derived value from a diffusion MRI *

Automated dispensing cabinet An automated dispensing cabinet (ADC), also called a unit-based cabinet (UBC), automated dispensing device (ADD), or automated dispensing machine (ADM), is a computerized medicine cabinet for hospitals and healthcare settings. ADCs allow medicat ...

, a computerized drug storage device for hospitals *

Azodicarbonamide Azodicarbonamide, ADCA, ACA, ADA, or azo(''bis'')formamide, is a chemical compound with the molecular formula . It is a yellow to orange-red, odorless, crystalline powder. It is sometimes called "the yoga mat chemical" because of widespread use i ...

, a blowing agent

Technology

Advanced Direct Connect Direct Connect (DC) is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. Direct Connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one another. Advanced Direct Connect can be considered a successor protocol. Hubs feature a list o ...

, a peer-to-peer file sharing and chat protocol *

Analog-to-digital converter In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a Digital signal (signal processing), digi ...

, a type of electronic circuit * Android Developer Challenge, a competition * Apple Developer Connection, Apple Computer's developer network * Apple Display Connector, similar to the DVI connector * Application delivery controller, for accelerating website performance * Automatic Data Capture, for automatic identification, data collection and storage into computer systems

Other uses

* ''A.DC.'', taxonomic author abbreviation for

Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (27 October 18064 April 1893) was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Biography De Candolle, son of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, first devot ...

(1806–1893), French-Swiss botanist * Adlington (Cheshire) railway station, UK (National Rail code) * Aide-de-camp, assistant to a senior military or government person * Aid to Dependent Children, an American government social program from 1935 to 1960 * Alternative

Daily cover The daily cover on an operational landfill site is the layer of compressed soil or earth which is laid on top of a day's deposition of waste. Benefits of using daily cover include: * Reduction of odor and air emissions * Control of disease vectors ...

, material other than soil for containment in a landfill *

Andrew Dice Clay Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in the late 1980s with a brash, deliberately offensive persona known as "The Diceman". In 1990, he became the f ...

(born 1957), American comedian *

Axiom of dependent choice In mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. T ...

* New Zealand ADC class diesel multiple unit, a type of diesel railway vehicle used on Auckland's suburban network {{disambiguation, political