IDC

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IDC may refer to:

Organizations

• India Delivery Center, for example Microsoft's in HITEC City
• Industrial Development Corporation, also known as Castle Grande, an Arkansas company involved in the Whitewater political controversy
• Information Dominance Corps, a group of US Navy military information specialties
• Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, a think tank based in Paris
• Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE symbol IDC), a financial services company
• InterDigital Communications, a telecommunications company
• Interdnestrcom, a mobile telephone broadband provider in Transnistria, Moldova
• International Data Corporation, a market research company
• International Detention Coalition, a non-government organization advocating for human rights
• International Development Collaborative, a non-profit dedicated to social entrepreneurship in developing countries
• Invensys Development Centre, a global common software development centre
• Irish Dental Council
• Israel Development Center, an Intel development center

Schools

• Imperial Defence College, former name of the Royal College of Defence Studies, a British military academy (and post nominal letters used by graduates)
• Industrial Design Centre, part of IIT Bombay, India
• Institut de cognitique, a school of engineering in France
• Institute of design and construction, a technical school in Brooklyn, NY, US
• Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, an academic institution in Herzliya, Israel
• Paris Institute of Comparative Law, France

Medical

• Dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle
• Immature dendritic cells, a type of dendritic cell
• Indwelling Catheter, a tube inserted into the urinary bladder for drainage
• Infiltrating ductal carcinoma, a type of breast cancer

Technology

• Ideographic Description Characters (Unicode block)
• Internet data center, a facility run by a service provider to house computer systems and associated components for their customers
• Insulation-displacement connector, a connector that pierces the insulation on a wire
• Inter-domain controller, implements Inter-domain Controller protocol for dynamic networking across administrative domains

Other uses

• IDC (musician), a British musician
• Ideographic Description Characters, symbols for describing the composition of CJK characters
• Independent duty corpsman, a US Navy medical staff position; see United States Marine Air-Ground Task Force Reconnaissance
• Intangible drilling costs, an oil and gas industry term
• Iris deactivation code, a fictional code sequence from the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis TV series