MDC

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

Chemistry and biology

• Methylene dichloride, 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, 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
• 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 containerized self-sufficient data center

Geography

• Manado Airport, Indonesian airport
• More developed country
• Model dwellings company

Organizations

• Mater Dei College, 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, American home builder company
• MDC Partners, an American advertising and marketing holding company
• Medicaid Dental Center, chain of dental clinics in North Carolina
• Metropolitan Detention Centers, 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 (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, an electoral bloc formed in Zimbabwe in 2017
• MUMPS Development Committee, an organization that defines the MUMPS 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 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)