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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

DCS en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of distributed control system.
  2. (Commonwealth, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of detective chief superintendent, a police rank.
    • It is being led by DCS Jim Taylor, who is the head of Opal, the national intelligence unit for organised acquisitive crime. 2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of decompression sickness.
    • She’d been worried about DCS as well – she could barely remember ascending – but the symptoms hadn’t persisted and she was fine now. 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 87:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
D.C.S. alternative lexicographic
DCSs Number=Plur lexicographic
D. C. S. alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

DS (detective chief superintendent) · WPC (detective chief superintendent) · SP (detective chief superintendent) · DC (detective chief superintendent) · DI (detective chief superintendent) · supt. (detective chief superintendent) · DCI (detective chief superintendent) · SSP (detective chief superintendent) · PC (detective chief superintendent) · CSP (detective chief superintendent) · DSupt (detective chief superintendent)