DDD
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DDD
- (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.
- (US, clothing) Bra cup size.
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DDD (countable and uncountable, plural DDDs)
- 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”).
- (music) A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating a "full digital recording" (recorded, mixed and mastered in digital).
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (“insecticide related to DDT”).
- Coordinate term: DDT
- (software design) Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”).
- (telecommunications) Initialism of direct distance dialing (“network-provided service that enables non-local telephone calls to be made without operator assistance”).
- (pharmacology) Initialism of defined daily dose: a statistical measure of drug consumption.
- 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.
- Initialism of degenerative disc disease.
