VDC
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VDC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, the most common is volts (V) of continous current (direct current (DC)), in contrast to VAC.
Care must be taken not to connect DC devices (such as DC electrical motors) to alternating current (AC) sources, as DC devices can be seriously damaged by doing so. The voltage itself is also important, as a device must never be connected to a power supply generating a higher voltage than the device is rated to handle.
Other uses include:
- VDC is used as an acronym for "Video Display Controller", as with the 8563 VDC and 8568 [D]VDC computer graphics chips of the 1980s.
- Virtual Digital Cable, or VDC, an acronym for a media and technology company delivering television to desktop computers and mobile devices.
- The Victoria day celebration.
- Vietnam Day Committee, an anti-war group formed at Berkeley, California in spring 1965 by activist Jerry Rubin.
- VDC is an acronym for "Velocity Drift Chamber", a drift chamber (a kind of particle detector) to test a gas by determination of the drift velocity of electrons.
- VDC is an acronym for "Vehicle Dynamic Control", an electronic means of aiding vehicle stability. Also known as Electronic Stability Control.
- VDC is an acronym for "Via de Cristo", This is a Spanish phrase meaning "Way of Christ." VIA de CRISTO is a highly structured three day weekend designed to strengthen and renew the faith of Christian people and bring them to a new awareness of living in God's grace. It is a combined effort of lay people and clergy toward renewal of the church.
