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

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

Geography

 * Manado Airport, Indonesian airport
 * More developed country (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 Research, a polling and research firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon, mdcresearch.com
 * 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
 * Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), a Malaysian government institution

Sports

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

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)