DDD

See also: ddd

Translingual

Symbol

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.

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. (sound engineering) 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 architecture) 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.

Further reading

• DDD on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Initialism of discagem direta a distância (“direct distance dialing”).

Noun

DDD m (plural DDDs)

1. (Brazil, informal) area code

   Synonym: código de área

   • 1982 March 12, “Esporte pelo telefone”, Sem Pulo, in Placar, number 616, São Paulo: Abril, →ISSN, page 44, column 4:

     Quem não morar na cidade e também estiver curioso em conhecer esse novo serviço, um lembrete: o DDD de São Paulo é 011.

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