DCS

plural DCSs · alternative D.C.S. · alternative D. C. S.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of distributed control system.
2. CommonwealthabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of detective chief superintendent, a police rank.

   It is being led by DCS Jim Taylor, who is the head of Opal, the national intelligence unit for organised acquisitive crime.

   2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

3. abbreviationinitialismdivingInitialism of decompression sickness.

   She’d been worried about DCS as well – she could barely remember ascending – but the symptoms hadn’t persisted and she was fine now.

   2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 87

1. pluralplural of DC