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DDD en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of die-deterioration doubling (“a common form of mint-made error on coins that results from degradation of the die used to strike the coin”).
  2. (countable, qualifier:sound engineering, uncountable) A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating a "full digital recording" (recorded, mixed and mastered in digital).
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (“insecticide related to DDT”).
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”).
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of direct distance dialing (“network-provided service that enables non-local telephone calls to be made without operator assistance”).
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of defined daily dose: a statistical measure of drug consumption.
    • The authors found a significant decrease in the defined daily doses (DDD) of antibiotics in both units B and C, but not in unit A. Although just a single center study, this illustrates the impact that ID specialist approval can have on antibiotic use. 2017, Christopher D. Doern, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, “Selective Reporting and Antimicrobial Stewardship”, in Kerry LaPlante, Cheston Cunha, Haley Morrill, Louis Rice, Eleftherios Mylonakis, editors, Antimicrobial Stewardship: Principles and Practice, Wallingford: CABI, →ISBN, page 115:
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of degenerative disc disease.

Forms

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Coordinates

RDD · AAD · PDD · ADD · DAD · DDT