DDD

Translingual

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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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English

Noun

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. Initialism of degenerative disc disease.

Further reading

• DDD on Wikipedia.Wikipedia