DCS

See also: DCs and D&Cs

English

Alternative forms

• D.C.S., D. C. S.

Noun

DCS (plural DCSs)

1. Initialism of distributed control system.
2. (law enforcement, Commonwealth) Initialism of detective chief superintendent, a police rank.
   • 2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

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

3. (underwater diving) Initialism of decompression sickness.
   • 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 87:

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

Coordinate terms

• (detective chief superintendent): DSupt, supt., SP, SSP, CSP, DCI, DI, DS, DC, WPC, PC

Anagrams

• C&Ds, CDS, CDs, CSD, D.S.C., D.Sc., DSC, SDC, Sc.D., cDs