Definition of "DDD"

DDD

noun
countable and uncountable, plural DDDs
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”).
2. (music) A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating a "full digital recording" (recorded, mixed and mastered in digital).
3. (organic chemistry) Initialism of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (“insecticide related to DDT”).
4. (software design) Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”).
5. (telecommunications) Initialism of direct distance dialing (“network-provided service that enables non-local telephone calls to be made without operator assistance”).
6. (pharmacology) Initialism of defined daily dose: a statistical measure of drug consumption.
  Quotations
  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.
  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, page 115
7. Initialism of degenerative disc disease.