Symbol

DDDCategory:Translingual lemmas#DDDCategory:Translingual symbols#DDDCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#DDDCategory:Translingual terms with 3 consecutive instances of the same letter#DDDCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#DDDCategory:Pages with entries#DDDCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DDD

1. (financeCategory:mul:Finance#DDD) 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.Category:mul:Bond market
2. (US, clothing) Bra cup size.

Noun

DDD (countable and uncountable, plural DDDs)Category:English lemmas#DDDCategory:English nouns#DDDCategory:English uncountable nouns#DDDCategory:English countable nouns#DDDCategory:English countable nouns#DDDCategory:English words spelled without vowels#DDDCategory:English terms with 3 consecutive instances of the same letter#DDDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DDDCategory:Pages with entries#DDDCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DDD

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”)Category:English initialisms#DDD.
2. (sound engineeringCategory:en:Sound engineering#DDD) A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating a "full digital recording" (recorded, mixed and mastered in digital).

   Coordinate terms: AAD, ADD, DAD

3. (organic chemistryCategory:en:Organic chemistry#DDD) Initialism of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (“insecticide related to DDT”)Category:English initialisms#DDD.

   Coordinate term: DDT

4. (software architectureCategory:en:Software engineering#DDDCategory:en:Programming#DDD) Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”)Category:English initialisms#DDD.
5. (telecommunicationsCategory:en:Telecommunications#DDD) Initialism of direct distance dialing (“network-provided service that enables non-local telephone calls to be made without operator assistance”)Category:English initialisms#DDD.
6. (pharmacologyCategory:en:Pharmacology#DDD) Initialism of defined daily doseCategory:English initialisms#DDD: 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#DDD

7. Initialism of degenerative disc diseaseCategory:English initialisms#DDD.

Further reading

• DDD on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology

Initialism of discagem direta a distância (“direct distance dialing”)Category:Portuguese initialisms#DDD.

Noun

DDD m (plural DDDs)Category:Portuguese lemmas#DDDCategory:Portuguese nouns#DDDCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#DDDCategory:Portuguese terms with 3 consecutive instances of the same letter#DDDCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#DDDCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#DDDCategory:Pages with entries#DDDCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DDD

1. (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#DDD, informalCategory:Portuguese informal terms#DDD) 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Category:Portuguese terms with quotations#DDDCategory:Requests for translations of Portuguese quotations#DDD

Further reading

• “DDD”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026