BC most often refers to:
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Before Christ
The terms (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term is Medieval Latin and means 'in the year of the Lord', but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", ...
, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
, the westernmost province of Canada
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Baja California
Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...
, a state of Mexico
BC may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* "B.C.", a song by Sparks from the 1974 album ''
Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded ...
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''B.C.'' (comic strip) by Johnny Hart, and one of its characters
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''BC'' (video game) by Lionhead Studios
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BC The Archaeology of the Bible Lands'', a BBC television series
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Bullet Club
(stylised as BULLET CLUB), sometimes shortened to BC, is a professional wrestling stable primarily appearing in the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In the United States, the group currently appears on NJPW events run by the co ...
, a professional wrestling stable
Businesses and organizations
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Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist
The Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist ( la, Ordo Basilianus Sancti Iohannis Baptistæ) is a Melkite Greek Catholic monastic order of Pontifical Right for Men. The members of the Order add the nominal B.C after their names to ind ...
, an order of the Greek Catholic Church
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BC Card
BC Card (Hangul: 비씨카드) is a South Korean financial services company headquartered in Seoul. South Korea's largest payment processing company, it provides end-to-end payment services, primarily to financial institutions, as well as to loca ...
, a Korean credit card company
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Bella Center
Bella Center (abbreviated BC) is Scandinavia's second largest exhibition and conference center (after Messecenter Herning), and is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Located in Ørestad between the city centre and Copenhagen Airport, it offers an ...
, a conference center in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon (also known as ''SABC'')
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Brunswick Corporation
Brunswick Corporation, formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is an American corporation that has been developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of products since 1845. Today, Brunswick has more than 13,000 employ ...
(NYSE ticker symbol BC)
Education
United States
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Bakersfield College
Bakersfield College (BC) is a public community college in Bakersfield, California. BC serves about 22,000 students each semester or 31,000 annually, and offers Associate degrees, certificate programs, and is one of fifteen California Community C ...
, a college in Bakersfield, California
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Bellevue College
Bellevue College (BC) is a public college in Bellevue, Washington, United States. It is the largest of the 34 institutions that make up the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system and the third-largest institution of higher educati ...
, a college in Bellevue, Washington
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Benedictine College
Benedictine College is a private Benedictine liberal arts college in Atchison, Kansas, United States. It was established in 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College (founded 1858) for men and Mount St. Scholastica College (founded 1923) for ...
, a college in Atchison, Kansas
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Benedictine Military School, a high school in Savannah, Georgia
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Bergen Catholic High School
Bergen Catholic High School is an all-male Roman Catholic high school in Oradell, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Coll ...
, a high school in Oradell, New Jersey
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Boston College
Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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Boston College Eagles
The Boston College Eagles are the athletic teams that represent Boston College, located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivisi ...
, its athletic teams
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Brazosport College
Brazosport College (BC) is a public community college in Lake Jackson, Texas. The college was opened in 1968 and offers primarily associate degrees and some bachelor's degrees. The campus features The Clarion, a regional musical performance ven ...
, a college in Lake Jackson, Texas
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Broward College
Broward College is a public college in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System. It was established in 1959 as part of a move to broaden Florida's two-year colleges. In 2008 it adopted its current name, reflecting that ...
, a college in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Worldwide
* ''Baccalaureus'' or bc, a
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...
in the Netherlands
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Baghdad College
Baghdad College ( ar, كلية بغداد) is an elite high school for boys aged 11 to 18 in Baghdad, Iraq. It was initially a Catholic school founded by and operated by American Jesuits from Boston. The 1969 Iraqi government nationalization and ...
, a high school in Baghdad, Iraq
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British Council
The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lan ...
Science and technology
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Backcrossing, a crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents, or a genetically similar individual
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Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility (sometimes known as backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especiall ...
, the ability of new software to work similarly to its predecessor
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Ballistic coefficient
In ballistics, the ballistic coefficient (BC, ''C'') of a body is a measure of its ability to overcome air resistance in flight. It is inversely proportional to the negative acceleration: a high number indicates a low negative acceleration—the ...
, a measure of air drag on a projectile
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Base curve radius
Base curve radius, or simply base curve, abbreviated BCR or BC, is the measure of an important parameter of a lens in optometry.
On a spectacle lens, it is the flatter curvature of the front surface.
On a contact lens it is the curvature of ...
, a parameter of a contact lens
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Battle command
Battle command (BC) is the discipline of visualizing, describing, directing, and leading forces in operations against a hostile, thinking, and adaptive enemy. Battle command applies leadership to translate decision into actions, by synchronizing ...
, a military discipline
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Bayonet cap, a standard light bulb connection
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bc (programming language), an arbitrary-precision calculator language
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Black carbon
Chemically, black carbon (BC) is a component of fine particulate matter (PM ≤ 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter). Black carbon consists of pure carbon in several linked forms. It is formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel ...
, a carbonaceous component of soot
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Bliss bibliographic classification
The Bliss bibliographic classification (BC) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss (1870–1955) and published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953. Although originally devised in the United States, it was more comm ...
, a library cataloguing system
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× ''Brassocattleya'' or ''Bc.'', an orchid genus
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Buoyancy compensator (diving)
A buoyancy compensator (BC), also called a buoyancy control device (BCD), stabilizer, stabilisor, stab jacket, wing or adjustable buoyancy life jacket (ABLJ), depending on design, is a type of diving equipment which is worn by divers to establis ...
, a piece of scuba diving equipment
Transportation
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NZR BC class, a type of steam locomotive
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Skymark Airlines
() is a Japanese low-cost airline headquartered at Haneda Airport in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. It operates scheduled services with a main base at Haneda Airport, but is also the dominant carrier at Kobe Airport, and the only Japanese airline offerin ...
(IATA airline code BC)
Other uses
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Bullcrap, a phrase denoting something worthless
* "B.C.", nickname of
Burr Chamberlain
Burr Clark "B. C." Chamberlain (August 21, 1877 – November 11, 1933) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University from 1896 to 1898 at the center and tackle positions. Three times he was an All-Ame ...
(1877–1933), American football player and coach
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Baguio
Baguio ( ,
), officially the City of Baguio ( ilo, Siudad ti Baguio; fil, Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", ...
, a city in the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
, locally abbreviated as "B.C."
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BC Powder, a brand of pain reliever
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BookCrossing
BookCrossing (also BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which was founde ...
, a website that encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
See also
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BC Cygni
BC Cygni (BC Cyg, HIP 100404, BD + 37 3903) is a red supergiant and pulsating variable star of spectral type M3.5Ia in the constellation Cygnus (constellation), Cygnus.
It is considered a member of the stellar Cygnus OB1 association, a ...
, a red supergiant star that is one of the largest stars
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Belaruskaja Čyhunka
Belarusian Railway (BCh) ( be, Беларуская чыгунка () / ''Biełaruskaja čyhunka'', russian: Белорусская железная дорога) is the national state-owned railway company of Belarus. It operates all of the rail ...
(BCh), the national railway company of Belarus
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Blind carbon copy
Blind carbon copy (abbreviated Bcc) allows the sender of a message to conceal the person entered in the Bcc field from the other recipients. This concept originally applied to paper correspondence and now also applies to email.
In some circumsta ...
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Bcc:), the practice of sending an e-mail to multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of recipients
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