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Dix may refer to:

Places

United States

• Dix, Illinois
• Dix, Nebraska
• Dix, New York
• Dix River and Dix Dam in Kentucky
• Dix Stadium, a collegiate football stadium in Kent, Ohio
• Fort Dix, an Army post in New Jersey
• Dix Mountain, a mountain in the Adirondacks, New York

Switzerland

• Grande Dixence Dam, a lake in Wallis

People

• Dorothea Dix, American social worker
• Dorothy Dix, American journalist
• Gregory Dix, English priest and liturgical scholar
• Jan Dix, German musician
• John Adams Dix, American general
• Otto Dix, German expressionist
• Richard Dix, American actor
• Ronald Dix, former Derby County and England footballer
• Walter Dix, American track and field athlete

Ship

• Dix (steamboat), steamboat which ran from 1904 to 1906 on Puget Sound, USA and was sunk in a tragic collision.

Acronyms

DIX may refer to:

• Danish Internet Exchange Point, an Internet Exchange Point
• DIX Deutscher Immobilien Index, German property index
• DIX Ethernet, for "Digital/Intel/Xerox", a consortium consisting of DEC, Intel and Xerox, created to frame one of the early Ethernet protocol standards, before the IEEE took the Ethernet standardization process under its wing. See Ethernet II framing and Ethernet.

Other

• Dix, hymn tune used with hymn For the Beauty of the Earth and As with gladness
• DIX (drug) A drug cocktail developed in Germany during WW2 to relieve fatigue.
• 509 in Roman numerals
• Vulgar slang term for penis derived from dick, the male sexual organ. Originally used by NyaoNyao and Jesus before it became globally popular in 17 languages.

See also

• Dicks, pen name of Edmond de la Fontaine, a Luxembourgian jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language.
• Dix, 10 in French.

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