BC
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BC or B.C. may refer to:
- Before Christ, an epoch used in dating years prior to the estimated birth of Jesus
Places
- Baja California, Mexico's northernmost state
- Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
- Basque Country (disambiguation), land of the Basque people
- Benin City, Edo State, southern Nigeria
- Botswana, World Meteorological Organization country code and FIPS 10-4 code: 'BC'
- British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province
- "Bull City", a nickname for Durham, North Carolina
Educational and government institutions
- Balliol College, Oxford, a college of the University of Oxford
- Benedictine Military School , formerly Benedictine College, Savannah, Georgia
- Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Brazosport College, a college located in Lake Jackson, Texas
- Bureau of Corrections (Philippines), an agency of the Department of Justice of the Philippines, charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders
Businesses and organizations
- Bella Center, Scandinavia's largest exhibition and conference center, in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Blue Cross, a trade association of United States health insurance companies
- Boise Cascade, a manufacturer of paper and pulp products
- Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon
- British Council, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
- Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league professional baseball club
- Brunswick Corporation, stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange
- Basketball Club, in Romanian, for example BC Mureş Târgu Mureş
Television, film, music, and comics
- Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
- Bad Company (drum and bass group), a drum and bass band
- Body Count, rapper Ice-T's metal band
- Bad Company, an English hard rock supergroup
- Broadway Calls, an American Punk Rock band
- B.C. (comic strip), a syndicated comic strip originated by Johnny Hart, and the name of one of its characters
- Barnabas Collins, a fictional vampire from the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows
- Border Crossings, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
- The Breakfast Club, a teenager-oriented dramedy released in the year 1985
- Breathe Carolina, an electronica band from Denver, Colorado
Science and technology
- Backward compatibility, compatibility of new product with old product
- Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment
- Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
- Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
- Black carbon, a carbonaceous component of soot
- Boundary condition (mathematics), a constraint on partial differential equations
- Battle Command, a military process
Computers
- bc programming language, "basic calculator," a cross-platform program
- Borland C, a compiler
Video games
- Burning Crusade, an expansion to the online role-playing game World of Warcraft
- Bionic Commando, a series of video games
- Battle Command (video game), a tank simulation game
Medicine and biology
- Bc, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Brassocattleya
- BC Powder, a brand name of pain reliever
- Birth control, prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth
- Breast cancer, cancers originating from breast tissue
- Board certification, as in Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified (APRN, BC)
BC: Blood Culture
Transportation
- Skymark Airlines, IATA airline code
- NZR BC class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
- Barre and Chelsea Railroad
Other uses
- Background Check, the process of compiling records on a person
- Breath control, controlling breathing
- Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
- BookCrossing, a website which encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
- Base Camp, in mountaineering
- Bachelor's degree, in Middle European countries
- Basilian Chouerite Order, a religious order
See also
- Blind carbon copy (Bcc:), the practice of sending an e-mail to multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of recipients