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DIX or Dix may refer to:
Business
- Danish Internet Exchange Point, an Internet Exchange Point
- DIX Ethernet, a consortium of DEC, Intel and Xerox that framed an early Ethernet protocol standard
Computing
- Data Integrity Extensions, data corruption error-handling field in data storage technology
- Device Independent X, part of the 2D graphics device driver in the X.Org Server
- DIX, The first Ethernet standard short for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Intel and Xerox
Media and entertainment
- Moi dix Mois, Japanese metal band
- Otto Dix (band), a Russian darkwave band
People
- Adrian Dix (born 1964), Canadian politician
- Alan Dix, British author and university professor
- Beulah Marie Dix (1876–1970), American screenwriter, playwright and novelist
- Dix Terne (fl. 1950s), West German bobsledder
- Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social worker
- Dorothy Dix (1861–1951), American journalist
- Gregory Dix (1902–1952), English priest and liturgical scholar
- Jan Dix, German musician
- John Alden Dix (1860–1928), New York governor
- John Adams Dix (1798–1879), American general
- Otto Dix (1891–1969), German expressionist
- Richard Dix (actor), American actor
- Ronald Dix, former Derby County and England footballer
- Walter Dix (born 1986), American track and field athlete
- William Chatterton Dix (1837–1898), English composer
Places
United States
- Dix, Illinois
- Dix, Nebraska
- Dix, New York
- Dix Dam, a dam on the Dix River in Kentucky
- Dix Hill, a high rolling expanse of land in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Dix Mountain, a mountain in the Adirondacks, New York
- Dix Range, a mountain range in the Adirondacks, New York
- Dix River, Kentucky
- Dix Stadium, a collegiate football stadium in Kent, Ohio
- Fort Dix, an Army post in New Jersey
Switzerland
- Lac des Dix, the lake created by Grande Dixence Dam
Other uses
- D-IX, a drug cocktail developed in Germany during WW2 to relieve fatigue
- Dix (steamboat), a steamboat which ran on Puget Sound, USA from 1904 to 1906
- Dix, a hymn tune used with hymn For the Beauty of the Earth and As with Gladness, Men of Old; named for William C. Dix
- DIX, the number 509 in Roman numerals
See also
- Dicks (1823–1891), pen name of Edmond de la Fontaine, a Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language
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