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* [[World Cup (disambiguation)|World Cup]], a type of global sporting competition |
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* The chemical formula for [[Tungsten carbide]] |
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Revision as of 06:24, 27 July 2014
WC commonly refers to a water closet (flush toilet), a Western commode (a toilet with a Western bowl design), or to a room containing a flush toilet.
WC may also refer to:
Computing
- wc (Unix), a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file
- Write-combining, a computing performance method of combining multiple memory writes before sending them
- Writing Commons
Industry
- Wisconsin Central Ltd., a railroad subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway
- Weather Central, a provider of broadcast and interactive web weather solutions
- Working capital, a financial metric
- Isleña Airlines (IATA code), an airline based in La Ceiba, Honduras
Entertainment
- W.C. (film), an Irish feature film set
- WC (band), a Polish punk rock band
- WC (rapper), a rapper from Los Angeles, California
- Wild Card (sports), a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.
Places
- WC postcode area, a group of postcode districts in central London, England
- West Covina, a city in Southern California
Sports
- World Cup, a type of global sporting competition
Other uses
- Allis-Chalmers Model WC, a row crop tractor
- The chemical formula for tungsten carbide, a high-boiling-point metallic compound
- Wall cloud, a lowered area of a thunderstorm at the updraft-downdraft interchange where tornadoes may form
- Weil–Châtelet group in mathematics
- Water cooler, a device that cools and dispenses water.
- WC can also stand for Wellington College, a LGBT friendly school based in Wellington, New Zealand.