Usually means: Abbreviation for December, decrease, or decimal.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dec, dec, dec-: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dec, dec, dec-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Dec, dec: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Dec, dec, dec-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Dec, dec: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dec, Dec, dec: Wordnik
  7. Dec, dec: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. DEC, Dec, dec, dec-: Wiktionary
  9. dec: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Dec: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dec-: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dec, dec, dec-: Dictionary.com
  13. dec: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. DEC, Dec (disambiguation), Dec: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dec: Rhymezone
  16. dec, dec-: MyWord.info
  17. DEC, Dec, Dec: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. dec: FreeDictionary.org
  19. dec: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Dec, Dec, dec-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. dec: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dec-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. DEC, dec: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. DEC: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. DEC: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. DEC, dec, dec-: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dec: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DEC, dec-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DEC: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. D.E.C, The Dec, dec: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DEC, dec: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See decs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (DEC)

noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Declan.
adjective:  (cricket) declared
noun:  Digital Equipment Corporation, a defunct American computer and technology company.
noun:  Abbreviation of December. [The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.]
noun:  (programming) Abbreviation of decrement. [(countable) A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions.]
noun:  Abbreviation of declaration. [An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.]
noun:  Abbreviation of decoration. [The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.]
verb:  (knitting) Abbreviation of decrease. [(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.]
noun:  Initialism of diethylcarbamazine. [A synthetic anthelmintic drug.]
noun:  Initialism of diethyl carbonate. [(organic chemistry) an ester of carbonic acid and ethanol with the formula OC(OCH₂CH₃)₂]
noun:  (dermatology) Initialism of desquamated epithelial cell.

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