IDC

IDC is an acronym and initialism that can stand for:

Slang

• stands for I Don't Care

Business and organizations

• International Data Corporation a research company and subsidiary of IDG
• Interactive Data Corporation, a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors.
• Information Dominance Center, an element of the US Army Intelligence & Security Command, located at Ft Belvoir, VA
• Invensys Development Centre, a global common software development centre
• International Development Course, an association of one day courses in international development in various British universities, including Cambridge, Oxford and Cardiff
• Industrial Development Corporation, also known as Castle Grande, a real estate development in Arkansas that came under national scrutiny as a result of the Whitewater controversy investigations
• Inter Discipline Check, document check by other related disciplines
• Israel Development Center, Intel Corporation's development center in Haifa, Israel
• IDC (Interdnestrcom), Mobile telephone broadband operator in Transnistria (internationally unrecognised territory within Moldova).

Schools

• Imperial Defence College, former name of the British military academy now known as the Royal College of Defence Studies
• Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay
• Institut de cognitique, a school of engineering in France
• Interdisciplinary Center, a college in Herzliya, Israel

Government

• Indigent Defense Coordinator, see Public defender.

Military

• idc are post nominal letters for completing training at a Imperial Defence College (now the Royal College of Defence Studies)

Medical

• Dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle
• Infiltrating ductal carcinoma, a type of breast cancer
• Indwelling Catheter, a tube inserted into the urinary bladder for ongoing drainage
• Interdigitating dendritic cells, antigen presenting cells of the immune system found in lymph nodes

Other generic uses

• Insulation-displacement connector, a connector that pierces the insulation on a wire to make the connection
• IDC scripting language, used in IDA Pro Interactive Disassembler
• Indirect costs, in financial contexts, otherwise known as "facilities and administrative costs"
• "Intelligent design and Creationism", summary term for theories on the origin of life which de-emphasize or deny natural selection and/or advocate special creation
• Internet data center, a place established by a service provider to provide stable and wide-band networks and high performance computers as a service to their customers
• Interest During Construction, in project finance interest on debt paid during construction period (before start of operation).
• IDC, an un-named software production team.
• IDC is an Independent Duty Corpsmen for the US Navy,
• Ideograph Description Character in Unicode,
• IDC, Internet Database Connector File format.
• Inventory Driven Costs - Descriptor for business inventory costs: lower cost of market, standard revision, scrap & rework, etc.

Popular culture

• Iris deactivation code, in the Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis TV shows, a code sent through an open stargate to request the iris be opened.
• "In due course"
• IDC (music), the recording artist/DJ/producer

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