PAC
Appearance
PAC or Pac may refer to:
Organizations
- Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, a contemporary art museum in Milan, Italy
- Public Archives of Canada, a predecessor organization of the Library and Archives Canada
Aviation
- Pacific Aerospace Corporation, an aircraft manufacturing company based in New Zealand
- PAC CT/4, a basic training aircraft made by Pacific Aerospace Corporation
- PAC Fletcher – a Piston-engined aerial-application aircraft
- PAC Cresco – a Turboprop-engined aerial application aircraft
- P-750 XSTOL – a Turboprop skydive/utility/aerial application aircraft. Formally known as the PAC 750-XL.
- Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, a military aircraft manufacturing facility in Pakistan
- Polar Air Cargo, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, US
Business
- Panasonic Avionics Corporation, a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation
- Peruvian Amazon Company, a former rubber company
- Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, an investment plan in Brazil
Education
- Panasonic Academic Challenge, a US national competition
- Partnerships in Academic Communities, a program in Miami, Florida that awards scholarships to those enrolled
- Postgraduate Applications Centre, an organisation in Ireland
- Prince Alfred College, a school in Australia
- Professionals' Academy of Commerce, an accounting school in Pakistan
- Penrith Anglican College, a school in Penrith, Australia
Politics
- Anti-Corruption Party (Partido Anti-Corrupción) a political party in Honduras
- Armed Proletarians for Communism (Proletari Armati per il Comunismo), a former Italian far-left terrorist group
- Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa
- Partido Acción Ciudadana (disambiguation), several political parties in Latin America
- Pedorthic Association of Canada
- Peoples' Aman Committee, a criminal gang and welfare group associated with the Pakistan Peoples Party
- Political action committee, (PACS) pl an organization formed to contribute funds to influence the outcome of political elections in the United States
- Political Affairs Committee (African Union), a committee in the African Union
- Political Affairs Committee (British Guiana), a political party in British Guiana
- Polish American Congress, a US national umbrella organization
- Political Advisory Committee, a committee that evaluates new experiment proposals for particle accelerators
- Public Accounts Committee (India), a parliamentary committee in India that examines government accounts and considers the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom), a parliamentary committee in the UK and other Westminster systems responsible for overseeing government expenditures
- Public Affairs Committee (Malawi), a political organization in Malawi
Science and technology
- PAC field, in mathematics
- Perturbed angular correlation, discovered by Hans Frauenfelder
- Plasma arc cutting
- Polyaluminium chloride, a coagulant used in water treatment
- Abbreviation for polycyclic aromatic compounds, a class of organic compounds.
- Porting Authorisation Code, a unique identifier which telephone network providers issue to a customer so they can port their number to another network
- Powdered activated carbon, used for example in electrochemical regeneration
- Pseudo algebraically closed field, a field with geometric features, namely each variety over it has a rational point
- Pure and Applied Chemistry, the official monthly journal of IUPAC
Medicine and biology
- Certified Physician assistant or pathologist assistant; see List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel
- P1-derived artificial chromosome, in genomic research
- Papular acrodermatitis of childhood, Gianotti-Crosti syndrome
- Plasma aldosterone concentration, of aldosterone
- Pre-anesthesia checkup
- Premature atrial contraction, a type of premature heart beat or irregular heart beat or arrhythmia
- Primary auditory cortex, a region of the brain
- Proanthocyanidin, a type of flavanol
- Pulmonary artery catheterization, the insertion of a catheter into a pulmonary artery
- Port-a-Cath, a catheter under the skin that is connected to a vein
Computing and industrial
- Programmable Automation Controller, PAC a system similar to a PLC but high end
- Probably approximately correct, a computational learning theory framework
- Presentation-abstraction-control, a type of design pattern used in software engineering
- Proxy auto-config, a web browser technology
- PACManager, an ssh client manager for Unix systems
- Perceptual Audio Coding, an audio compression algorithm
- Pacifica Coin, see List of TCP and UDP port numbers
- Pin Array Cartridge, an integrated circuit packaging type
- A programmable automation controller, or PAC, combines the industrial PC and programmable logic controller control with the flexibility of monitoring and calculation of a PC...
Business
- A Price Activity chart is a type of stock chart used in the Technical Analysis of stocks.
- Planned Amortization Class, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation
Military
- Parachute and Cable, a British anti-aircraft weapon of WWII
- Pasukan Aturgerak Cepat, a Malaysian armed forces unit
- Patriot Advanced Capability, a software-only upgrade of the MIM-104 Patriot
Sports
- Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, former name of the Colonial States Athletic Conference, a US NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference
- Pocket Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Indiana, US
- Presidents' Athletic Conference, a US NCAA Division III athletic conference of small private colleges
People
- Pac (born 1986), former ring name of British professional wrestler Benjamin Satterly now known as Neville
- Pac (family), a noble family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Tupac Shakur or Pac, 2Pac (1971–1996), American rapper and actor
Other uses
- Perfect authentic cadence, in music
- Performing arts center, a multi-use performance space
- Providence Anime Conference, a former anime convention
- Parent-Adult-Child, a model in transactional analysis
- Pan Asian Coalition, one of the two playable factions in the computer game Battlefield 2142
- Progressive Activity Coupe, a vehicle category/development idea by BMW
- Provincial Armed Constabulary, a title used by some State Armed Police Forces in India
- Public Assistance Committees, great depression-era institutions to support the poor in Britain
See also
- Sean Waltman (born 1972) (X-Pac), an American professional wrestler
- Pac-12 Conference (Pac-12), a US college athletic conference
- Pac-Man (disambiguation)
- Pacific (disambiguation)
- Primitive Apostolic Christianity (disambiguation)
- Public Affairs Council (disambiguation)