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DCE

DCE is the initialism of data circuit-terminating equipment.

DCE is the initialism of dead-code elimination.

DCE is the initialism of dichloroethene.

Meaning of data circuit-terminating equipment

Noun

Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (usually uncountable, plural Data Circuit-Terminating Equipments)

  1. (usually) A device interconnecting data terminal equipment (DTE) and a data transmission circuit.

Meaning of dichloroethene

Noun

dichloroethene (countable and uncountable, plural dichloroethenes)

  1. Any of several isomeric organochlorides with the molecular formula C₂H₂Cl₂.

Forms of DCE

pluralDCEs

Questions about DCE

What is DCE the initialism of?
DCE is the initialism of data circuit-terminating equipment.

Words near DCE in the dictionary

  1. DCCA
  2. DCCD
  3. DCCs
  4. DCD
  5. DCDP
  6. DCE
  7. DCed
  8. DCEs
  9. DCEU
  10. DCF
  11. DCFC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DCE (page history and authors); Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (page history and authors); dichloroethene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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