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"DCS" is a plural of: dc. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DCS Digital Cellular System. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
DCS can mean:
- a distributed control system
- a digital coded squelch
- in arms trade it means direct commercial sales
- in model railroading, the Digital Control System by MTH
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DCS."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DCS | Dutch | Digitaal commandosignaal | Electrical Engineering |
DCS | English | Delayed Coincidence Spectroscopy | N/A |
DCS | French | Direction contrôle de sécurité | N/A |
DCS | Italian | Segnale di istruzione numerica | Electrical Engineering |
DCS | Spanish | Señal de instrucción digital | Electrical Engineering |
| DCS 1800 | French | Système de communication numérique à 1800 MHz | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DCS |
| Specialty definitions using "DCS": GOES DCS ♦ mobile entity, mobile equipment ♦ Second Generation Mobile Systems, subscriber identification module, subscriber identity module. (references) |
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| "Macro rose" by Jean Ilderton Commentary: "Using Sony DCS 717." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | This is particularly true in the DCS segment where new products are introduced frequently. (references) | |
The GSM licenses awarded to these three operators also cover the use of DCS 1800 frequencies. (references) | ||
In the spring of 1998 OTE’s subsidiary, COSMOTE (15%), finally introduced its mobile telephony service, which uses DCS 1800 technology. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | The growth will be primarily from the increasing demand for DCS and PLC systems. (references) |
Ukraine | Five operators UMC, Kiev Star, Golden Telecom GSM, DCC, Welcom - offer wireless mobile services in the following standards: GSM900/1800 (UMC, Kiev Star, Welcom), NMTi 450 (UMC), DCS 1800 (Golden Telecom GSM), and D-AMPS (DCC). (references) | |
India | Although there exists very strong competition from Japan, Germany, France, and Switzerland, the U.S. will continue to be the leading supplier in this sector primarily due to its superior technology in the DCS and PLC segments of the market. (references) | |
Human Rights | South Africa | The parole boards still are staffed by lower ranking DCS employees; NGO's have attributed the low number of parole decisions and an exacerbation of the overcrowding conditions in prisons to this. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DCS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.24% of the time. "DCS" is used about 316 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 64.24% | 203 | 21,393 |
| Noun (plural) | 35.76% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Total | 100.00% | 316 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | DCS Group Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "DCS": DCS 1800. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DCS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | DCS 1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
Dutch | DCS 1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
Finnish | DCS 1800-mikrosolukkojärjestelmä (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
French | DCS 1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
German | DCS 1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
Italian | DCS-1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | dcsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | DCS 1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
Spanish | DCS 1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
Swedish | DCS 1800 (DCS 1800). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-s" | |
+1 letter: cads, cods, cuds, disc, docs, scad, scud. | |
+2 letters: acids, asdic, cades, cadis, caids, cards, cased, cedes, cedis, chads, clads, clods, codas, codes, coeds, colds, cords, cruds, curds, daces, decks, decos, dices, dicks, disci, disco, discs, docks, duces, ducks, ducts, scads, scald, scend, scold, scrod, scudi, scudo, scuds, sodic. | |
+3 letters: alcids, ascend, asdics, caddis, cadets, cadges, cadres, cairds, canids, capsid, cashed, casked, caulds, caused, ceased, cebids, cedars, ceders, censed, cessed, chards, chased, chides, chords, ciders, clades, closed, clouds, codecs, codens, coders, codons, condos, coshed, cosied, costed, credos, creeds, crowds, crudes, cupids, cursed, cusped, cuspid, cussed, cycads, cyders, dachas, dances, darics, decafs, decals, decays, decors, decoys, deices, descry, deuces, dicast, dicers, dickys, dicots, disced, discos, discus, drecks, ducats, dunces, durocs, edicts, educes, educts, escudo, medics, muscid, nicads, octads, psocid, sacked, sacred, sauced, scalds, scaled, scaped, scared, scends, schrod, scolds, scoped, scored, scowed, screed, scried, scrods, secede, second, secund, seduce, sicced, sicked, sliced, socked, spaced, spiced, sucked, synced, syndic, viscid. | |
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