PAC

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Contents 1 Organizations 1.1 Education 1.2 Sports 1.3 Political 1.4 Other 2 Music and entertainment 3 Science and technology 4 Medicine and biology 5 Psychology and psychotherapy 6 Computers 7 Video games 8 Transportation 9 People 10 Business 11 See also

[edit] Organizations

[edit] Education

• Partnerships in Academic Communities, a program in Miami, Florida that awards scholarships to those enrolled
• Prince Alfred College, an independent day and boarding school for boys, located in Adelaide, South Australia
• Panasonic Academic Challenge, a national competition (USA)
• Postgraduate Applications Centre, an organization in Ireland

[edit] Sports

• Pac-10, a college athletic Pacific-10 Conference, which operates in the western United States
• Pocket Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Indiana
• Presidents' Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division III athletic conference of small private colleges

[edit] Political

• Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa
• Partido Acción Ciudadana, name of political parties in Latin America
• Political action committee, a group organized to elect or defeat political candidates
• Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom), a parliamentary committee in the UK and other westminster systems responsible for overseeing government expenditures
• Public Affairs Committee (Malawi), a political organization in Malawi
• Armed Proletarians for Communism (Proletari Armati per il Comunismo), an Italian far-left terrorist group of the 1970s

[edit] Other

• Pacific Aerospace Corporation, an aircraft manufacturing company based in Hamilton, New Zealand
• Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, a military aircraft manufacturing facility in Pakistan
• Panasonic Avionics Corporation, a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation
• Polar Air Cargo, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, USA
• Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, an investment plan in Brazil
• Pasukan Aturgerak Cepat, a Malaysian armed forces unit
• Provincial Armed Constabulary or Special Armed Police, special police in India
• Polish American Congress, a national umbrella organization (USA)

[edit] Music and entertainment

• Perfect authentic cadence, in music
• Performing arts center, a multi-use performance space

[edit] Science and technology

• Parachute and Cable, a British anti-aircraft weapon of WWII
• Patriot Advanced Capability, a software-only upgrade of the MIM-104 Patriot
• Perceptual Audio Coding, an audio compression algorithm
• Porting Authorisation Code, a unique identifier which telephone network providers issue to a customer so they can port their number to another network
• Powdered activated carbon, used as a sorbent
• Programmable automation controller, a compact controller that combines the features of a PC-based control system with that of a programmable logic controller
• Pseudo algebraically closed field (mathematics), a field with geometric features, namely each variety over it has a rational point

[edit] Medicine and biology

• P1-derived artificial chromosome, genomic research
• Proanthocyanidin, a type of flavonoids
• Plasma aldosterone concentration
• Premature atrial contraction, a type of premature heart beat or irregular heart beat or arrhythmia which start in the upper two chambers of the heart
• Primary auditory cortex, a brain region that is heavily involved with the processing of auditory (sound) information
• Pulmonary artery catheterization
• Physician Assistant-Certified

[edit] Psychology and psychotherapy

• Parent-Adult-Child, a model in transactional analysis

[edit] Computers

• Presentation-abstraction-control, a type of design pattern used in software engineering
• Proxy auto-config, a web browser technology
• Online public access catalog, or OPAC, or Library Catalog
• Probably approximately correct learning, a framework of learning that was proposed by Leslie Valiant in his paper A theory of the learnable

[edit] Video games

• Pan Asian Coalition, one of the two playable factions in the computer game Battlefield 2142
• Pac-Man, originally an arcade game

[edit] Transportation

• PAC CT/4, a basic training aircraft made by Pacific Aerospace
• Progressive Activity Coupe, a vehicle category/development idea by BMW

[edit] People

• Tupac Shakur, an American hip-hop artist
• Ben Satterly (PAC), a British professional wrestler
• Sean Waltman (X-Pac), an American professional wrestler
• Pac (family), a noble family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

[edit] Business

• Planned Amortization Class, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation

[edit] See also

• Pac-Man (disambiguation)
• Pacific (disambiguation)
• Primitive Apostolic Christianity (disambiguation)
• Public Affairs Council (disambiguation)

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