The DTC may refer to:

Places

Desert Training Center The Desert Training Center (DTC), also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA), was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert, largely in Southern California and Western Arizona in 1942. It ...

, a World War II training area located mostly in southwestern California and western Arizona * Downtown Transit Center (TC),

San Joaquin Regional Transit District San Joaquin Regional Transit District, commonly known as San Joaquin RTD, or simply as RTD, is a transit district that provides bus service to the city of Stockton, California and the surrounding communities of Lodi, Ripon, Thornton, French Ca ...

Denver Technological Center Denver Technological Center, better known as The Denver Tech Center or DTC, is a business and economic trading center located in Colorado in the southeastern portion of the Denver Metropolitan Area, within portions of the cities of Denver and Gree ...

, a business park in Denver and Greenwood Village, Colorado

Companies and organizations

Developmental Test Command The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, or ATEC, is a direct reporting unit of the United States Army responsible for developmental testing, independent operational testing, independent evaluations, assessments, and experiments of Army equipm ...

, a component of the United States Army *

Defence Technology Centre A Defence Technology Centre carries out military science research on behalf of the UK government. They are consortia with members from industry, universities as well as QinetiQ. They are organised by scientific themes. There are currently four DTC ...

s, British military research facilities *

Delhi Transport Corporation The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) is a public sector passenger road transport corporation that manages bus services in Delhi, India. It was incorporated in November 1971 as a wholly-owned corporation of the Government of India to provide ...

, the bus transport provider in Delhi *

Depository Trust Company Depository Trust Company (DTC), founded in 1973, is a New York City, New York corporation that performs the functions of a central securities depository as part of the US National Market System. DTC annually settles transactions worth hundreds ...

, American securities depository, subsidiary of

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is an American financial market infrastructure company that provides clearing, settlement and trade reporting services to financial market participants. It performs the exchange of securities ...

(DTCC) *

Diamond Trading Company The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is the rough diamond sales and distribution arm of the De Beers Group. The DTC sorts, values and sells about 35% of the world’s rough diamonds by value. The DTC has a combination of wholly owned and joint vent ...

, rough diamonds sales and distribution arm of De Beers * Digital Trust Center, Dutch organisation and platform with the aim to help businesses with digital matters *

Doctoral Training Centre Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs; also called Centres for Doctoral TrainingCentr ...

s, British centres for managing PhD studies *

Discount Tire The Reinalt-Thomas Corporation, doing business as Discount Tire and America's Tire, is an American tire and wheel retailer. It operates in 38 of the lower 48 states, and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded in 1960, it is considered ...

Company, an American tire and wheel retailer

Software

* Direct-threaded code, a compiler implementation technique. *

Distributed Transaction Coordinator The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service is a component of Microsoft Windows that is responsible for coordinating transactions that span multiple resource managers, such as databases, message queues, and file systems. MSD ...

, in Microsoft Servers for a subsystem concerned with atomic transactions across multiple datastores * Domain Technologie Control, a Web-based control panel for admin and accounting for hosting web and e-mail services *

Diagnostic Trouble Code On-board diagnostics (OBD) is a term referring to a vehicle's self-diagnostic and reporting capability. In the United States, this capability is a requirement to comply with federal emissions standards to detect failures that may increase the ...

, in the automotive industry, codes that are prescribed by SAE standards to help track problems in a vehicle detected by its on-board computer

Sports

Danish Touring Car Championship The Danish Touringcar Championship (abbreviated as the DTC) was a touring car racing series in Denmark. The inaugural year for the DTC was 1999, after the huge success in Scandinavia of the British Touring Car Championship The British Touring ...

, Danish touring car racing series * Deutsche Tourenwagen Cup, a former German

touring car racing Touring car racing is a motorsport road racing competition that uses race-prepared touring cars. It has both similarities to and significant differences from stock car racing, which is popular in the United States. While the cars do not move a ...

series * Distance to conversion, in chess endgames

Business methods and techniques

Design-to-cost Design-to-Cost (DTC), as part of cost management techniques, describes a systematic approach to controlling the costs of product development and manufacturing. The basic idea is that costs are designed "into the product", even from the earliest c ...

, a cost management technique *

Direct-to-consumer Direct-to-consumer (DTC or D2C) or business-to-consumer (B2C) is the business model of selling products directly to customers and thereby bypassing any third-party retailers, wholesalers, or middlemen. Direct-to-consumer sales are usually transa ...

, business model focusing on e-commerce of a single product category * Direct to Consumer (Retail), describes the sales channel where the original equipment manufacturer sells directly to the consumer (instead of using wholesale channel) *

Direct-to-consumer advertising Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) refers to the pharmaceutical marketing, marketing and advertising of medication, pharmaceutical products directly to consumers as patients, as opposed to specifically targeting health professionals. The term ...

, the term for sale of goods without intermediary third parties

Arts and entertainment

* '' DTC: Yukemuri Junjo Hen from High & Low'', 2018 Japanese film * '' High&Low: The DTC'', 2017 Japanese streaming show

Tax

* Direct Taxes Code, changes in tax slabs *

Disability Tax Credit The Disability Tax Credit (DTC) is a non-refundable tax credit in Canada for individuals who have a severe and prolonged impairment in physical or mental function. An impairment qualifies as prolonged if it is expected to or has lasted at least 12 ...

, Canadian benefit

Science

Dithiocarbamate In organic chemistry, a dithiocarbamate is a chemical compound with the general formula . It contains the functional group with the Chemical structure, structure . It is the analog of a carbamate in which both oxygen atoms are replaced by sulfur ...

, a chemical *

d-tubocurare Tubocurarine (also known as ''d''-tubocurarine or DTC) is a toxic benzylisoquinoline alkaloid historically known for its use as an arrow poison. In the mid-1900s, it was used in conjunction with an anesthetic to provide skeletal muscle relaxatio ...

, a neuromuscular blocking agent *

Digital-to-time converter A digital delay generator (also known as digital-to-time converter) is a piece of electronic test equipment that provides precise delays for triggering, syncing, delaying, and gating events. These generators are used in many experiments, controls ...

(a.k.a. digital delay generator), an electronic circuit or piece of equipment that generates precise delays defined by a digital control signal * Dimension Time Cost model * Digitally tuned capacitor, a type of electrical capacitor whose capacitance can be changed by means of a digital control signal *

Direct Torque Control Direct torque control (DTC) is one method used in variable-frequency drives to control the torque (and thus finally the speed) of three-phase AC electric motors. This involves calculating an estimate of the motor's magnetic flux and torque based ...

, a method to control electric motors with very good torque dynamics *

Direct traffic control Direct traffic control (DTC) is a system for authorizing track occupancy used on some railroads instead of or in addition to signals. It is known as "direct" traffic control because the train dispatcher gives track authority directly to the train ...

, a method of authorizing track occupancy on American railroads * Dynamic Traction Control, a system that controls a car's traction according to many conditions

Other

* dtc (trigraph), in linguistics