NC
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NC may refer to:
People
[edit]- Naga Chaitanya, an Indian Telugu film actor; sometimes nicknamed by the initials of his first and middle name, NC
- Nathan Connolly, lead guitarist for Snow Patrol
- Nostalgia Critic, the alter ego of Internet comedian Doug Walker from That Guy with the Glasses
Places
[edit]- New Caledonia, special collectivity of France (ISO 3166-1 country code NC)
- New Canaan, a town in Connecticut, U.S.
- North Carolina, a U.S. state by postal abbreviation
- Northern Cyprus, a self-declared state on the island of Cyprus
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Biology and medicine
[edit]- Nasal cannula, a device used to deliver supplemental oxygen
- Nasal chondrocytes, the cell type within the hyaline cartilage of the nasal septum
- Neural crest, a transient component of the ectoderm
- Effective number of codons, a measure to study the state of codon usage biases in genes
Chemistry
[edit]- (-NC) Isocyanide, an organic functional group.
Computing and internet
[edit]- NC (complexity), the set of decision problems decidable in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors
- Naming Context, in Microsoft Active Directory
- NCsoft, a producer of MMORPGs such as Lineage
- Netcat, a computer network utility
- Network computer, a diskless desktop computer in the late 1990s
- Norton Commander, an orthodox file manager program
- PernMUSH, an online game based on Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels
Physics and materials
[edit]- Nanocarbon, a short name for material based on carbon nanotubes
- Nanocoulomb, 1:1,000,000,000 of the SI unit of electric charge
- Neutral current, a class of physics interaction where the mediating boson is neutral, especially for neutrino experiments
- Nuclear chemistry, the subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties
Mathematics
[edit]- nc (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- National coarse, a Unified Thread Standard for screws, nuts, and bolts
- National Radio Company, American manufacturer of radio equipment from 1914 to 1991
- Noise criteria, a single-value measurement of background noise derived from a graphic representation of the sound pressure audio spectrum (noise curves)
- Noun class, a grammatical category of nouns
- Normally closed, an electrical switch where the default position is closed
- Not connected, an open cable connection or unassigned connector or part pin
- Numerical control, a method of automatic operation of machine tools
- NC MX-5 Miata, the third generation of the Mazda MX-5
Transport
[edit]- Northern Air Cargo, an American cargo airline (IATA designator NC)
- National Jet Systems, an Australian charter airline (IATA designator NC)
- Curtiss NC, an American flying boat nicknamed the "Nancy boat"
- NC-4, the first aircraft to cross the atlantic (with multiple stops)
- NC, an international maritime distress signal
Other uses
[edit]- NC-17, an MPAA film rating system code indicating that children under 17 are not admitted
- National Certificate, an educational award in various countries including Ireland and Scotland
- National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces or National Coalition, a Syrian revolutionary organisation
- Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India, a cultural centre
- New Centre, a former political party in France now known as The Centrists
- New Conglomerate (NC), a faction in the PlanetSide series
- New Continent School (Colegio Nuevo Continente), a private school in Mexico
- No comment, in internet slang
- No contest (combat sports)
- Non Cognizable Offense, in law
- Nepali Congress, a political party in Nepal
- N.C., "no chord" in guitar tablature
- Nonconformity (quality), in Quality management
- Noncommercial (in Creative Commons licenses)