NC
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NC may refer to:
People
- Naga Chaitanya, an Indian Telugu film actor; sometimes nicknamed by the initials of his first and middle name, NC
- Nathan Connolly, lead guitarist for Snow Patrol
- Nostalgia Critic, the alter ego of Internet comedian Doug Walker from That Guy with the Glasses
Places
- New Caledonia, special collectivity of France
- North Carolina, a U.S. state
- Northern Cyprus, a self-declared state on the island of Cyprus
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- Nasal cannula, a device used to deliver supplemental oxygen
- Neural crest, a transient component of the ectoderm
- Effective number of codons, a measure to study the state of codon usage biases in genes
Computing and internet
- NC (complexity), the set of decision problems decidable in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors
- Naming Context, in Microsoft Active Directory
- NCsoft, a producer of MMORPGs such as Lineage
- Netcat, a computer network utility
- Network computer, a diskless desktop computer in the late 1990s
- Norton Commander, an orthodox file manager program
- PernMUSH, an online game based on Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels
Physics and materials
- Nanocarbon, a short name for material based on carbon nanotubes
- Nanocoulomb, 1:1,000,000,000 of the SI unit of electric charge
- Neutral current, a class of physics interaction where the mediating boson is neutral, especially for neutrino experiments
- Nuclear chemistry, the subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties
Other uses in science and technology
- National coarse, a Unified Thread Standard for screw, nut, and bolts
- Noise criteria, a single-value measurement of background noise derived from a graphic representation of the sound pressure audio spectrum (noise curves)
- Normally closed, an electrical switch where the default position is closed
- "Not Connected" or "No Connection", for an unconnected pin in electronic equipment
- Numerical control, a method of automatic operation of machine tools
Transport
- Northern Air Cargo, an American cargo airline (IATA designator NC)
- National Jet Systems, an Australian charter airline (IATA designator NC)
- Curtiss NC, an American flying boat nicknamed the "Nancy boat"
- NC-4, the first aircraft to cross the atlantic (with multiple stops)
- NC, the beginning of registries for American civil aircraft
- NC, an international maritime distress signal
Other uses
- NC-17, an MPAA film rating system code indicating that children under 17 are not admitted
- National Certificate, an educational award in various countries including Ireland and Scotland
- National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces or National Coalition, a Syrian revolutionary organisation
- Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India
- New Centre, a political party in France
- New Continent School (Colegio Nuevo Continente), a private school in Mexico
- No comment, in internet slang
- No contest (combat sports)
- Non Cognizable Offense, in law