PIC

PIC or pic can refer to:

Government and politics

• Partido Independiente de Color, a former Cuban political party
• Peace Implementation Council, an international body charged with implementing the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Population Investigation Committee, a United Kingdom social research group founded in 1936
• Provincial Iraqi Control, an objective of the Iraqi Government and Multi-National Forces in Iraq

Law and policy

• Plan inclusive counterplan, a counterplan presented by the opponent in a policy debate
• Predesignated Interexchange Carrier, a U.S. legal and regulatory term for a telecommunications company
• Prior informed consent, a legal condition

Medicine and biochemistry

• Peripherally inserted central catheter, an intravenous access that can be used for a prolonged period of time
• Preinitiation complex, a large complex of proteins necessary for transcription of protein-coding genes in eukaryotes
• Pre-integration complex, a complex used in HIV research

Technology

• Peripheral interface controller, a controller for the interface
• Personal Internet Communicator, a device by AMD to allow access to the internet
• Pic language, a domain-specific language for specifying diagrams
• PIC microcontroller (Peripheral Interface Controller), a family of Harvard architecture microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology
• PICtor PIC image format, an image file format developed in the 1980s for PCPaint
• Pixar Image Computer, a high-end graphics designing computer made by Pixar in the 1980s
• Photonic integrated circuit, a device that integrates multiple photonic functions
• Plastic-insulated conductor, a conductor isolated by plastic
• Polymorphic Inline Cache, a virtual machine optimization-technology
• Position-independent code, machine instruction code that executes properly regardless of where in memory it resides
• Programmable integrated circuit, an electronic component
• Programmable intelligent computer, a type of computer
• Programmable interface controller, a controller used for interface programming
• Programmable Interrupt Controller, a device which allows priority levels to be assigned to its interrupt outputs
• Particle-in-cell, a technique used to solve certain partial differential equations
• Plastic identification code, a symbol used to identify types of plastic for recycling

Organizations

• Phoenix Iron Company, a former manufacturer, items may be marked PIC
• Poison information center, a medical facility used for cases of exposure to poisonous or hazardous substances
• Prison-industrial complex, interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities

Places

• Picayune (Amtrak station) (Amtrak station code), Mississippi, United States
• Pic River, in Ontario, Canada

Other

• Paid-in-capital, the capital contributed to a corporation by investors on top of the par value of capital stock
• Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention, an international instrument between countries and pharmaceutical inspection authorities
• Pilot in command, a person aboard aircraft that is responsible for its operation and safety during flight

See also

• Picture (common abbreviation)
• All pages beginning with "PIC"
• All pages with titles containing "PIC"