CAC may refer to:

Arts

* California Arts Council, an agency for advancing California through the arts and creativity *

Campbelltown Arts Centre Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C or CAC) is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre located in Campbelltown, New South Wales, south west of Sydney, Australia. It is a cultural facility of Campbelltown City Council, assisted by other governm ...

, multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre south-west of Sydney, Australia *

Comics Arts Conference The Comics Arts Conference (CAC), also known as the Comic Arts Conference, is an academic conference held in conjunction with both the annual Comic-Con International in San Diego, California, and WonderCon in San Francisco.Contemporary Arts Center, an art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio * Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (City of Arts and Sciences), a cultural and architectural complex in Valencia, Spain

Business and finance

Central Arbitration Committee The Central Arbitration Committee is a UK government body, whose task is to oversee the regulation of UK labour law as it relates to trade union recognition and collective bargaining. Chairs * Michael Burton *Former deputy chair, PL Davies See a ...

CAC 40 The CAC 40 (french: CAC quarante ) (''Cotation Assistée en Continu'') is a benchmark French stock market index. The index represents a capitalization-weighted measure of the 40 most significant stocks among the 100 largest market caps on the E ...

, a French stock market index *

Cotation Assistée en Continu Cotation Assistée en Continu (CAC) was an electronic trading system used at the Paris Bourse, the French stock exchange, in the 1980s and 1990s. It was introduced in 1986 for trading less liquid equities, and in 1989 it was operational for all ...

, an electronic trading system used at the French stock exchange *

Capital account convertibility Capital account convertibility is a feature of a nation's monetary policy, financial regime that centers on the ability to conduct transactions of local financial assets into foreign financial assets freely or at market determined exchange rates. I ...

, a fiscal policy based on conducting transactions of local financial assets into foreign financial assets freely * Collective action clause, a clause that allows a supermajority of bondholders to agree a debt restructuring that is legally binding on all holders of the bond *

Corporate Affairs Commission, Nigeria The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria was established in 1990 vide Companies and Allied Matters Act no 1 (CAMA) 1990 as amended, now on Act cap C20 Laws of Federation of Nigeria. Its establishment, structure, and funding are now governe ...

, a body that regulates companies in Nigeria *

Customer acquisition cost Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is the cost of winning a customer to purchase a product or service. As an important unit economic, customer acquisition costs are often related to customer lifetime value (CLV or LTV). With CAC, any company can gau ...

, the amount of money a business needs to spend to get an additional customer

Corporate

Call Aircraft Company The Call Aircraft Company (CAC or CallAir) was established by Reuel Call in 1939 at Afton, Wyoming to build a touring aircraft of his own design. History The Call Aircraft Company hoped to advance the development of its CallAir Model A to the poin ...

, an aircraft manufacturer in the United States * Certified Acceptance Corporation, a coin grading service * Cessna Aircraft Company, a defunct American general aviation aircraft manufacturing corporation * Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, an aircraft manufacturer in China *

Chugach Alaska Corporation Chugach Alaska Corporation, or CAC, is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims. Chugach Alaska Corporation was incorporated ...

, an Alaska Native regional corporation * Colonial Ammunition Company, a New Zealand ammunition company *

Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) was an Australian aircraft manufacturer. The CAC was established in 1936, to provide Australia with the capability to produce military aircraft and engines. History In 1935 the Chief General Manager ...

, an Australian aircraft manufacturer * Conquest Airlines (ICAO airline designator) *

Consolidated Aircraft Corporation The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 in aviation, 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet in Buffalo, New York, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the ...

* Copa Airlines Colombia *

Carrington American Central Carrington and Carington are surnames originating from one of the Carringtons in England, or from the town of Carentan in Normandy, France. It is also rarely a given name. Surname Scientists * Alan Carrington (1934–2013), British chemist *Benja ...

* Copper Australia Courier * Cambridge Aero Coorporation

Education

Cairo American College Cairo American College (or CAC) is a Pre-K–12 International American School located in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. It caters mainly to dependents of the local American embassy and other international students. Cairo American College is a not for-profit ...

, a school in Cairo, Egypt * Coomera Anglican College, a school in Queensland, Australia *

Carmel Adventist College Carmel Adventist College is an Independent school, independent Seventh-day Adventist Church, Seventh-day Adventist Mixed-sex education, co-educational Secondary school, secondary Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding school, located in ...

, a school in Western Australia, Australia * , a middle school in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

United States

* Central Arizona College, a community college in Coolidge, Arizona * Commissioner's Academic Challenge, a Florida high school academic tournament * Central Arkansas Christian Schools, a school system in North Little Rock, Arkansas

Military

U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States and its possessions between 1901 and 1950. The CAC also operated heavy and railway artillery ...

, a U.S. Army corps *

Combined Action Company The Combined Action Program was a United States Marine Corps Counter-insurgency, counterinsurgency tools during the Vietnam War. It was widely remembered by the Marine Corps as effective. Operating from 1965 to 1971, it placed a thirteen-member Ma ...

, a joint unit of the Combined Action Program of U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Regional Forces during the Vietnam war * United States Army Combined Arms Center, a component of the Training and Doctrine Command * Canadian Armoured Corps, renamed in 1945 to Royal Canadian Armoured Corps * Canadian Aviation Corps, the predecessor to the Royal Canadian Air Force * Common Access Card, a U.S. military identification card * Colombian armed conflict (1964–present), an internal war in Colombia

Politics and religion

Campaign Against Censorship The Campaign Against Censorship (CAC) is a non-party political pressure group that opposes censorship and promotes freedom of expression in the United Kingdom. The group is based in Fareham, England. It was formerly named the Defence of Literatur ...

, a UK pressure group that opposes censorship * Central Advisory Commission, a political commission of the People's Republic of China * Central Advisory Council, a body set up by the Imperial Japanese Army in the occupied Dutch East Indies *

Central Asian Commonwealth The Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC or EurAsEC) was a regional organisation between 2000 and 2014 which aimed for the economic integration of its member states. The organisation originated from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on ...

, an organization later renamed to Organization of Central Asian Cooperation *

Coalition against Communalism Coalition against Communalism (CAC) is a San Francisco Bay area organization formed in 1992 in the wake of the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya, according to its website. Nothing is known about its leadership, its membership or the sources of f ...

, a San Francisco Bay area organization concerned with communalism in South Asia *

Constitutional Accountability Center The Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is a non-profit think tank located in Washington, D.C., that seeks to advance a progressive interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. The group has filed numerous lawsuits against forme ...

, a Washington, D.C. think tank *

CPSU Central Auditing Commission Central Auditing Commission (CAC), (russian: Центральная ревизионная комиссия КПСС), Centralnaya revizionnaya komissiya) was a supervisory organ within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Similar organs exist ...

, an organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union *

Christians Against the Coup Christians Against the Coup (CAC), aka Anti-Coup Christians, is an Egyptian Christian movement, founded after the coup d'état in July 2013 in support of the presumed legitimacy of the former President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi. Foundation Th ...

, an Egyptian political movement opposing the recent 2013 coup d'état in Egypt * Christ Apostolic Church *

Church at Charlotte New City Church is a multi-site church in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The church is a member of the Evangelical Free Church of America denomination. New City has two campuses, one in the SouthPark area of Charlotte and one on Monroe ...

, an evangelical free church in Charlotte, NC * Cyberspace Administration of China, a government agency of the People's Republic of China

Science and technology

* Calcium carbide, a chemical compound *

Call Admission Control Call Admission Control (CAC) prevents oversubscription of VoIP networks. CAC is used in the call set-up phase and applies to real-time media traffic as opposed to data traffic. CAC mechanisms complement and are distinct from the capabilities of qua ...

, a concept in voice over IP networking *

Air carbon arc cutting Air carbon arc cutting, also referred to as metal arc gouging, and previously as air arc cutting, is an arc cutting process where metal is cut and melted by the heat of a carbon arc. Molten metal is then removed by a blast of air. It employs a cons ...

, an arc cutting process * Citric acid cycle, a series of chemical reactions in cells that use oxygen in respiration * Codex Alimentarius Commission, an organisation which maintains food standards * Common Access Card, smart card used by the Active Duty United States Defense personnel *

Criteria air contaminants The U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS, pronounced ) are limits on atmospheric concentration of six pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards. Established by the United States Environmental Protection Agenc ...

, a group of air pollutants * Charge air cooler, part of an internal combustion engine * Carrier access code * ''Система Аварийного Спасения'' (transliteration from the Russian alphabet: ''Sistema Avariynogo Spaseniya, SAS''), the Soyuz launch escape system * CAC, a codon for the amino acid histidine * CaC, Configuration as Code

Medicine

Coronary Artery Calcium A coronary CT calcium scan is a computed tomography (CT) scan of the heart for the assessment of severity of coronary artery disease. Specifically, it looks for calcium deposits in atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries that can narrow ...

Sports and games

* Cardiff Athletic Club, a Cardiff-based multi sport organisation *

Castles and Crusades ''Castles & Crusades'' (''C&C'') is a fantasy role-playing game published in 2004 by Troll Lord Games based upon a stripped-down variant of the d20 System by Wizards of the Coast. The game system is designed to emulate the play of earlier editi ...

, a role-playing game * Cauliflower Alley Club, a wrestling and boxing organization *

Commonwealth Athletic Conference The Commonwealth Athletic Conference (CAC) is a high school athletic conference in District A of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) is an organization that sponso ...

, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts, United States *

Confédération Africaine de Cyclisme The national federations of the UCI form confederations by continent. In Africa, this body is the ''Confédération Africaine de Cyclisme'' (the African Cycling Confederation), also shortened to CAC. It is headquartered in Cairo Cairo ( ; ...

(African Cycling Confederation), a confederation of governing bodies for cycling in Africa * Capital Athletic Conference, former name of the US intercollegiate athletic conference now known as the

Coast to Coast Athletic Conference The Coast to Coast Athletic Conference (C2C; officially stylized as Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference), formerly named Capital Athletic Conference (CAC), is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member i ...

* Central American and Caribbean Games, a multi-sport regional championships event * Command & Conquer, a series of video games *

Cricket Australia Cup The Toyota Second XI or Futures League is the Australian national second XI cricket competition. Run by Cricket Australia, it is part of its development program and includes the various state and territory second XI teams, from the 2009–10 se ...

, now the Futures League, an Australian cricket competition * Club Athlétique Canadien, a Montreal-based ice hockey team * Copa América Centenario {{disambiguation