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* Gigacycles per second (Gc), an older term for [[gigahertz]] |
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* GC, the DIN code for pigment-coated, virgin mechanical pulp [[paperboard]] |
* GC, the DIN code for pigment-coated, virgin mechanical pulp [[paperboard]] |
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* [[Gemma Collins]], British Reality TV star |
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* [[General contractor]] is sometimes abbreviated as this. |
* [[General contractor]] is sometimes abbreviated as this. |
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Look up GC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
GC may stand for:
Computing
- Garbage collection (computer science), a form of automatic memory management
- GenerativeComponents, computer-aided design software
- Global Catalog, a global listing of all objects in an Active Directory forest
- General Category of a Unicode symbol
Entertainment
- GC (character), a fictitious cat on 1980s Mexican television
- The GC, a New Zealand television series
- Games Convention, an annual video games event held in Leipzig, Germany
People
- Gemma Collins (born 1981), a British media personality and businesswoman.
Organizations
- Global Community, the fictional world government/state described in the Left Behind series
- Grasshopper Club Zürich, a Swiss sports club
- Green Council, an environmental organization based in Hong Kong
- Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force
- Guardia Civil (Civil Guard (Spain)), the civil guard or gendarmerie in Spain
- Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen, Actuarial Association of Europe, established in 1978
Science
- GC (gene), encodes the vitamin D-binding protein also known as gc-globulin
- gc, a unit conversion factor used in engineering
- GC-content, a sequence composition of DNA molecules in genetics
- Gallocatechol, a plant polyphenol molecule
- Gas chromatography, in analytical chemistry
- Germinal center, an area in a lymph node
- Gigacoulomb, an SI symbol for electric charge equal to 109 coulomb
- Granular component, a component of the nucleolus
- Guanylate cyclase, an enzyme catalysing the synthesis of cyclic-GMP from GTP
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae or gonococcus, the causative agent of gonorrhea
- Clayey gravel, in the Unified Soil Classification System
- Crystallized intelligence (abbreviated Gc), a part of fluid and crystallized intelligence
- Library of Congress Classification:Class G, subclass GC -- Oceanography
Transportation
- Gambia International Airlines (IATA code), the national airline of the Gambia
- Georgia Central Railway, a class III railroad in Georgia, United States
- Grand Central, a railway operator in England
- Gibraltar to Casablanca convoy (convoy code GC) in World War II
- GC, Mazda's first front-wheel drive midsize car platform
- GC, ID code for the first generation Subaru Impreza sedan
Other
- gc (digraph), in some languages
- George Cross, the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom
- Glivenko–Cantelli theorem, in probability
- Gigacycles per second (Gc), an older term for gigahertz
- GC, the DIN code for pigment-coated, virgin mechanical pulp paperboard
- General contractor is sometimes abbreviated as this.