Dix

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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