| Noun | 1. | DC - the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the nation's capital and carve out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia Synonyms: D.C., District of Columbia |
| 2. | DC - an electric current that flows in one direction steadily Synonyms: direct current |
| (language, tool) | DC - The Unix arbitrary precision postfix
calculator and its language. Here is an example program which prints out factorials: echo "[la1+dsa*pla2220>y]sy0sa1lyx" | dc Unix manual page: dc(1). bc provides a somewhat more readable syntax which is compiled into dc. There is also a GNU DC. |