| Acronym | Definition |
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| ADC | Aid to Dependent Children |
| ADC | Area Defense Counsel (US military public defender) |
| ADC | Automatic Drip Coffee (maker) |
| ADC | Alcohol and Drug Counselor (various organizations) |
| ADC | Analog-to-Digital Converter |
| ADC | Art Directors Club |
| ADC | Apparent Diffusion Coefficient |
| ADC | Analog to Digital Conversion |
| ADC | Anti-Discrimination Committee |
| ADC | American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee |
| ADC | Active Directory Connector |
| ADC | Antibody-Drug Conjugate |
| ADC | Apple Developer Connection (Apple Computer, Inc.) |
| ADC | Application Delivery Controller |
| ADC | Arizona Department of Corrections |
| ADC | Active Descent Control (engine braking system) |
| ADC | A Diffusion Coefficient |
| ADC | Architectural Design Concepts (various locations) |
| ADC | African Development Center (Minnesota) |
| ADC | Adult Day Care |
| ADC | Automated Data Collection |
| ADC | Attack Damage Carry (gaming) |
| ADC | Alzheimer's Disease Center |
| ADC | Aluminum Die Casting (various organizations) |
| ADC | Apple Display Connector |
| ADC | Aide-De-Camp |
| ADC | Air Data Computer |
| ADC | Air Defense Command (Pakistan Air Force) |
| ADC | Advances in Distributed Computing |
| ADC | Automatic Data Capture |
| ADC | Assessment and Development Centre (various locations) |
| ADC | Active Desktop Calendar (software) |
| ADC | Adobe Developer Connection (software) |
| ADC | Agile Development Conference (computer development) |
| ADC | Average Daily Census |
| ADC | Air Diffusion Council |
| ADC | Association Dentaire Canadienne (Canadian Dental Association) |
| ADC | AIDS Dementia Complex |
| ADC | Advanced Data Center (various locations) |
| ADC | Alexandria Drafting Company (est. 1956; Washington, DC) |
| ADC | Automatic Distance Control |
| ADC | Arq Discard |
| ADC | Advanced Computations Department |
| ADC | Active Differential Control |
| ADC | Airmatic Dual Control |
| ADC | Adobe Device Central |
| ADC | Advanced Disk Catalog |
| ADC | Active Dynamic Control |
| ADC | Autocad Design Center |
| ADC | Audio Digital Optical Cable |
| ADC | American Digital Cellular |
| ADC | Active Damper Control |
| ADC | Automatic Document Control |
| ADC | Apple Developer Connection |
| ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
| ADC | Ado Data Control |
| ADC | Adaptive Caching |
| ADC | Aerospace Defense Command |
| ADC | Archives of Diseases in Childhood (peer-reviewed journal) |
| ADC | Application Data Center |
| ADC | Activity Data Collection |
| ADC | Anti-Defamation Commission (B'nai B'rith) |
| ADC | Add With Carry |
| ADC | Anti-Doping Commission (various organizations) |
| ADC | Advanced Disk Catalog (software) |
| ADC | Art & Design Company |
| ADC | Annual Data Collection (various organizations) |
| ADC | Area Development Council (various locations) |
| ADC | Air Defense Command (obsolete) |
| ADC | After-Death Communication |
| ADC | Australasian Database Conference |
| ADC | Agricultural Development Corporation |
| ADC | Academic Development Center (various schools) |
| ADC | Adult Degree Completion (various schools) |
| ADC | Attended Donation Center |
| ADC | Alternative Daily Cover (waste management) |
| ADC | Automatic Data Collection |
| ADC | Ashfield District Council (UK) |
| ADC | Autoridade da Concorrência (Portuguese: Competition Authority) |
| ADC | Application Detection and Control (wireless communications) |
| ADC | Administration Center |
| ADC | Area Distribution Center |
| ADC | Association of Diving Contractors |
| ADC | Aqaba Development Corporation (Aqaba, Jordan) |
| ADC | Acquisition, Development, and Construction |
| ADC | Astronomy Data Center (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) |
| ADC | Access Deficit Charge (telephone service) |
| ADC | Applied Data Corporation (est. 1989) |
| ADC | Anxiety Disorders Clinic (various locations) |
| ADC | Assistant Division Commander |
| ADC | Air Development Center |
| ADC | Abyssinian Development Corporation |
| ADC | Arkansas Department of Corrections |
| ADC | Association of Defense Communities (formerly National Association of Installation Developers) |
| ADC | Advanced Digital Communications |
| ADC | Adventure Day Camp (various locations) |
| ADC | Automatic Defect Classification |
| ADC | Ask Drunk Chara (anime) |
| ADC | Assistant District Commissioner |
| ADC | Adaptive Data Compression |
| ADC | AIDS-Defining Cancer |
| ADC | Address Complete |
| ADC | Air Defense Commander |
| ADC | Agility Dog of Canada (Canadian canine agility title) |
| ADC | Assistant Deputy Commandant (US Marine Corps) |
| ADC | Administrative Director of the Courts (various locations) |
| ADC | Access Data Corp. (various locations) |
| ADC | Alternative Distribution Channel (banking) |
| ADC | Acquisition, Design and Construction (various organizations) |
| ADC | AIDS-Defining Condition |
| ADC | Armidale Dumaresq Council (Australia) |
| ADC | Advanced Data Connector |
| ADC | Ammunition Data Card |
| ADC | Average Drivers Club |
| ADC | Australian Dairy Corporation |
| ADC | Aalborg Danse Center (Danish recreational dance center) |
| ADC | Advanced Degree Candidate (education) |
| ADC | Animal Damage Control program |
| ADC | Attitude Determination and Control |
| ADC | Agricultural Development Council |
| ADC | Advanced Developers Conference (software development) |
| ADC | Advanced Development Center |
| ADC | Automated Distribution Center (various organizations) |
| ADC | Associated Designers of Canada |
| ADC | Authorized Design Center |
| ADC | Acadia Divinity College (Nova Scotia, Canada) |
| ADC | Atlantic Development Corporation (New Jersey) |
| ADC | Application Development Consultant |
| ADC | Average Daily Concentration |
| ADC | Animal Dental Care |
| ADC | Apparent Digestibility Coefficient |
| ADC | Ajax Data Controls (open source project) |
| ADC | Atmospheric Dispersion Compensator (astronomy) |
| ADC | Area Air Defense Commander |
| ADC | Agnews Developmental Center (San Jose, CA) |
| ADC | Additional Collection (airlines) |
| ADC | African Diamond Council |
| ADC | Australian Database Conference |
| ADC | Algebraic Diagrammatic Construction (Method) |
| ADC | Association of District Councils |
| ADC | Academic Deans Council (various schools) |
| ADC | America's Dumbest Criminals (TV show) |
| ADC | Applied Data Communications |
| ADC | Authorized Derivative Classifier |
| ADC | Advanced Development Centers |
| ADC | Air Defense Center |
| ADC | Alliance pour les Droits des Créateurs (French: Alliance for the Rights of Creators; Canada) |
| ADC | Area Damage Control |
| ADC | Acoustic Device Countermeasure |
| ADC | Affiliated Data Center |
| ADC | Adaptive Dispersion Compensator |
| ADC | Assistant Deputy Commissioner |
| ADC | Airborne Digital Computer |
| ADC | Apple Distribution Center |
| ADC | Amiante Diagnostic Conseil (French: Asbestos Diagnosis CounciI; consulting firm) |
| ADC | Automobiles des Cimes (French car dealership) |
| ADC | Advanced Data Controller |
| ADC | Average Daily Commission (finance) |
| ADC | Alpha-Decarboxylase |
| ADC | Atlanta Distribution Center |
| ADC | American Derringer Corp. |
| ADC | Alianza Democrática Campesina (Spanish: Peasant Democracy Alliance; El Salvador) |
| ADC | Advanced Distributing Company (Denver, CO) |
| ADC | Association pour la Defense des Droits des Consommateurs (French: Association for the Defense of Consumer Rights) |
| ADC | Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada |
| ADC | Aerodrome Controller |
| ADC | Alberta District Council (Directors Guild of Canada) |
| ADC | Audio Development Company |
| ADC | Program Against Digital Counterfeiting of Currency |
| ADC | Associazione Italiana Dottori Commercialisti (Italian: Italian Association of Chartered Accountants) |
| ADC | Asynchronous Data Channel |
| ADC | Arboretum de Chèvreloup (French arboretum) |
| ADC | After Date of Contract |
| ADC | Assistant Director of Ceremonies (Masonic) |
| ADC | Automatic Drip Coffeemaker |
| ADC | Alliance for Democracy and Change (Tuareg rebel group, Mali) |
| ADC | Amateur Dramatics Club (Cambridge University) |
| ADC | Asynchronous Data Communications |
| ADC | Assistant Deputy Comptroller (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, US Treasury Department) |
| ADC | Advanced Developing Country |
| ADC | Anti-Diluvian Chronicles (My Dying Bride album) |
| ADC | Active Duty Commitment |
| ADC | Assignment Data Card |
| ADC | Air Direction Controller |
| ADC | Active Document Container |
| ADC | Assistant District Coordinator |
| ADC | Chief Aviation Machinist Mate |
| ADC | Applied Degree Council |
| ADC | Administrative Data Center |
| ADC | Alternate Data Center (various locations) |
| ADC | Alaska Deaf Council |
| ADC | Applied Direct Cost |
| ADC | Analog-Digital Combiner |
| ADC | Analog Detection Circuit |
| ADC | Air Defense Clearance (aviation/military) |
| ADC | Allison Data Corporation |
| ADC | Associação Desportiva do Carregado (Portuguese: Sports Association of Carregado; Carregado, Portugal) |
| ADC | Architecture Design Contractor |
| ADC | Atomic Demolition Charge |
| ADC | Armed Drill Commander (ROTC) |
| ADC | Aircrew Ditching Course |
| ADC | Active Dual Consumers |
| ADC | Atmospheric Dioxin Concentration |
| ADC | Automatic Data Controller |
| ADC | Automatic Deviation Control |
| ADC | Analysis Date Concentrator |
| ADC | Antwerp Diamond Center (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| ADC | Asociación de Damas Colombianas (Colombian Ladies' Association, Guatemala) |
| ADC | Anodal Duration Contraction |
| ADC | Axially Displaced Cassegrain (antenna) |
| ADC | Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations |
| ADC | Aircraft Directive Configuration |
| ADC | Automated Document Control |
| ADC | Acoustic Display Console |
| ADC | Air Area Defense Coordinator |
| ADC | Aircrew Dry Coveralls (US Coast Guard) |
| ADC | Application Deployment Checklist |
| ADC | Agile Devlopment Center (US Army) |
| ADC | Aircraft Damping Composite |
| ADC | Aircraft Delivery Center (Airbus) |
| ADC | Arte del Corpo (Italian tattoo website) |
| ADC | Andrew Dale Consulting (Sudbury, ON, Canada) |
| ADC | Androgen Disrupting Chemical |