DD
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DD, dd or other variants may refer to:
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Electronics
- Dolby Digital, the trademark for an audio compression system created by Dolby Laboratories
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Computing
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dd, an element in HTML and XHTML for specifying definition data - Deployment Descriptor, a component in Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition applications
- dd (Unix), a Unix program to copy and convert files
- .dd, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) reserved for the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
- Design document, a description of a software product that a software designer writes in order to give a software development team an overall guidance of the architecture of the software project
- Distributed database
- Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire, a daily fantasy webcomic by Michael "Mookie" Terracciano
- Don't Die, common internet slang used in computer games
- Double density, a capacity designation on magnetic storage, usually floppy disks or compact discs
- Direct Draw, part of Microsoft's DirectX package used for drawing directly to the screen.
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Organizations
- Defeating Deafness, a British medical research charity
- Dunkin Donuts, a chain of coffee/doughnut shops.
- the stock ticker symbol of DuPont, one of the world's largest chemical companies
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Military
- "Dishonorable discharge" (see Military discharge) from the military
- Discharged dead, an old Royal Navy annotation indicating death while in service
- Destroyer, as the United States Navy hull classification symbol for the destroyer ship type
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Other
- the brassiere cup size "DD"
- The IATA code for Conti-Flug airline
- The IATA code for Nok Air
- Direct Dial, the direct phone number to a person's desk (as opposed to the switchboard)
- Direct Debit, a payment method where an organisation can to instruct their bank to collect varying amounts directly from customers' accounts.
- Designated driver, a person who does not drink at a party and drives others home safely
- Doctor of Divinity, as the acronym for the Latin term Divinitatis Doctor
- Duran Duran, a famous British pop/rock group.
- dysthymic disorder, a psychological disorder.
- Design Development, the design detailing phase of a construction project.
- East Germany, as its obsolete ISO 3166 digram
- A Welsh letter pronounced approximately as an unvoiced "th", or /ð/. (dd, Example: Casnewydd, Rhys ap Gruffydd)
- popular name for Doordarshan, India's national television channel
- VIQR notation for Đ