DDD

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DDD

  1. (finance) Long-term bond credit rating by Fitch Ratings, indicating that a bond is extremely speculative and possibly in default, with some prospect of debt recovery.
  2. (US, clothing) Bra cup size.

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DDD (countable and uncountable, plural DDDs)

  1. 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. (music) A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating a "full digital recording" (recorded, mixed and mastered in digital).
    Coordinate terms: AAD, ADD, DAD
  3. (organic chemistry) Initialism of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (insecticide related to DDT).
    Coordinate term: DDT
  4. (software design) Initialism of domain-driven design (methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming).
  5. (telecommunications) Initialism of direct distance dialing (network-provided service that enables non-local telephone calls to be made without operator assistance).
  6. (pharmacology) Initialism of defined daily dose: a statistical measure of drug consumption.
    Coordinate terms: PDD, RDD
    • 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:
      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.
  7. Initialism of degenerative disc disease.

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