CIC may refer to:

Organizations

Canada

Cadet Instructors Cadre The Cadet Instructors Cadre (CIC; french: Cadre des instructeurs de cadets) consists of approximately 7,500 Canadian Forces (CF) officers whose primary duty is the safety, supervision, administration and training of Royal Canadian Sea, Army, and Ai ...

, a part of the Canadian Armed Forces * Canadian Infantry Corps, renamed in 1947 to

Royal Canadian Infantry Corps The Royal Canadian Infantry Corps (french: Corps d'infanterie royal canadien) is the infantry corps of the Canadian Army and includes regular and reserve force regiments. Originally formed as the Canadian Infantry Corps on 2 September 1942 to en ...

Canadian International Council The Canadian International Council (CIC; french: Conseil international du Canada, link=no) is a Canadian think tank on foreign relations. It is an independent, member-based council established to strengthen Canada's role in international affairs. ...

Canadian Islamic Congress The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) was a Canadian Muslim non-profit organization. It was formally dissolved in late 2014 with its official Web site no longer active. The group was founded by Mohamed Elmasry of the University of Waterloo, a world e ...

Chemical Institute of Canada A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wit ...

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC; french: Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada)Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program since 2015; the legal title is Departm ...

, formerly Citizenship and Immigration Canada *

Columbia International College Columbia International College is a private boarding preparatory school in the Ainslie Wood neighbourhood of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As of 2014, the school has students from over 70 countries. Columbia is a member of the Independent School ...

, Ontario *

Credit Institute of Canada The Credit Institute of Canada (CIC) (french: Institut de crédit du Canada) is a not-for-profit organization created by a special Act of Parliament on June 11, 1928. The CIC provides credit management resources, education and certification to it ...

, a non-profit professional association *

Crown Investments Corporation Crown Investments Corporation (commonly known as CIC) is the holding company used by the Government of Saskatchewan to manage its financial and commercial Crown Corporations as well as its minority holdings in private-sector ventures. History CI ...

, Saskatchewan

China

China Investment Corporation China Investment Corporation (CIC) (Chinese: 中国投资有限责任公司; pinyin: ''zhōngguó tóuzī yǒuxiàn zérèn gōngsī'') is a sovereign wealth fund that manages part of the People's Republic of China's foreign exchange reserves. C ...

, a Chinese sovereign wealth fund *

Chinese Industrial Cooperatives Chinese Industrial Cooperatives () (CICs) were organisations established in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937- 1945) to support China's war effort by organizing small-scale grassroots industrial and economic development. The movement ...

India

Central Information Commission The Central Information Commission is a statutory body, set up under the Right to Information Act in 2005 under the Government of India to act upon complaints from those individuals who have not been able to submit information requests to a Cent ...

* Cluster Innovation Centre *

Coordination of Islamic Colleges Coordination of Islamic Colleges (CIC), based in Kerala, India, is an Islamic university serving as an academic administrative body. Colleges affiliated with the C. I. C. offer "Wafy" courses for men and "Wafiyya" for women, which combine both I ...

Kenya

CIC Insurance Group Limited CIC Insurance Group Limited, commonly referred to as CIC Group, is an insurance and investment group that operates mainly in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Malawi. CIC Group has a network of branches and operational subsidiaries spread across th ...

, an insurance provider *

Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) The constitution of Kenya approved by parliament unanimously on 1 April 2010 led to the formation of a Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution. This commission was mandated to facilitate in the implementation process of the new cons ...

United Kingdom

Children in Crossfire Children in Crossfire is a registered charity founded in Northern Ireland which aims to eradicate poverty and help children in war zones and works in partnership with local organizations in the developing world to make healthcare and education mor ...

, a charity located in Derry. *

Community interest company A community interest company (CIC, colloquially pronounced "kick") is a type of company introduced by the United Kingdom government in 2005 under the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004, designed for social ente ...

, a type of social enterprise company *

Construction Industry Council The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is the representative forum for professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations in the United Kingdom construction industry. History The first proposals for a Building Indus ...

* Cult Information Centre, a cult education resource

United States

Cable in the Classroom Cable in the Classroom was an American division of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association that assisted the cable television industry in providing educational content to schools. The organization was founded in 1989. A Canadian organ ...

, a defunct American division of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association *

Cambridge Innovation Center Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is an American real estate services company which bills itself as a "community of entrepreneurs". The company was founded in 1999 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates Timothy Rowe and Andrew ...

, a real estate services company *

Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway , also known as the CRANDIC, is a Class III railroad operating in the US state of Iowa. The CRANDIC currently operates of main line and more than of yard trackage in four east central Iowa counties. The ...

, a railroad *

Census Information Center {{unref, date=January 2010 The Census Information Center program is part of the U.S. Census Bureau's data dissemination network. History The Census Information Center (CIC) Program was started in 1988 to improve access to census data by minority ...

, a program is part of the U.S. Census Bureau's data dissemination network *

Center on International Cooperation The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) is a foreign policy think tank based at New York University that works to enhance multilateral responses to global problems, including conflict, humanitarian crises, and recovery; international securi ...

, a foreign policy think tank based at New York University *

Central Intercollegiate Conference The Central Intercollegiate Conference (CIC) was an American intercollegiate athletic conference that operated from 1928 to 1968. It was less often referred to as the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAC), particularly towards the begi ...

, an intercollegiate athletic conference that operated from 1928 to 1968 *

Check Into Cash Check Into Cash is a financial services retailer with more than 1,100 stores in 30 states. The company was founded in 1993 by W. Allan Jones in Cleveland, Tennessee, where the headquarters are located today. The firm offers payday loans, online ...

, a US Payday Loan/Financial Institution *

CIC Video CIC Video was a home video distributor, established in 1980, owned by Cinema International Corporation (the forerunner of United International Pictures), and operated in some countries (such as United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Japan, France, Ge ...

, a defunct home video distributor *

Cinema International Corporation Cinema International Corporation (CIC) was a film distribution company started by Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures in the early 1970s to distribute the two studios' films outside the United States – it even operated in Canada before it ...

, the forerunner to United International Pictures, a film distributor *

Committee on Institutional Cooperation The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference. The consortium was renamed on June 29, 2016. Member universities The Bi ...

, an academic consortium of US universities in the Big Ten Conference *

Council of Independent Colleges The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is an association in the United States of more than 650 independent, liberal arts colleges and universities and more than 100 higher education affiliates and organizations that work together to strengthen ...

, an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities *

Counter Intelligence Corps The Counter Intelligence Corps (Army CIC) was a World War II and early Cold War intelligence agency within the United States Army consisting of highly trained special agents. Its role was taken over by the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in 1961 and ...

, a former intelligence agency within the United States Army * Criminal Investigation Corps, a Puerto Rico Police Department division *

United States Army Criminal Investigation Command The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (USACID), previously known as the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) is the primary federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of the Army. Its p ...

Hong Kong

Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (CIC, is an immigration detention centre located in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr ...

Construction Industry Council (Hong Kong) The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is a statutory body established on 1 February 2007 after the enactment of the Construction Industry Council Ordinance on 24 May 2006. The main functions of the CIC are to convey the industry's needs and ...

Other organisations

CIC Holdings CIC Holdings PLC is a Sri Lankan conglomerate holding company engaged in merchandising and manufacturing chemical products. The company was incorporated in 1964 and listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in the same year. Initially, the company was a ...

, a listed company in Sri Lanka formerly known as Chemical Industries (Colombo) PLC *

College of the Immaculate Conception (disambiguation) College of the Immaculate Conception may refer to: *College of the Immaculate Conception (Cabanatuan City), Nueva Ecija, Philippines *College of the Immaculate Conception (New Orleans), New Orleans, Louisiana *Saint Mary's College, Trinidad and Tob ...

* Combined Independent Colleges, Australia *

Crédit Industriel et Commercial The Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC, "Industrial and Commercial Credit Company") is a bank and financial services group in France, founded in 1859. It has been majority owned by Crédit Mutuel, one of the country's top five banking groups, s ...

, a French bank *

International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) (French: ''Conseil International de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier'', German: ''Internationaler Rat zur Erhaltung des Wildes und der Jagd'') is a politically independe ...

(''Conseil International de la Chasse'')

Science and medicine

* Cardioinhibitory centre *

Chronic idiopathic constipation Functional constipation, known as chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC), is constipation that does not have a physical (anatomical) or physiological (hormonal or other body chemistry) cause. It may have a neurological, psychological or psychoso ...

, constipation that does not have a physical or physiological cause *

CIC (gene) Capicua transcriptional repressor is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CIC'' gene. Capicua functions as a transcriptional repressor in a way that ensures its impact on the progression of cancer, and plays a significant role in the op ...

, a gene encoding Capicua homolog, which is a human protein that may play a role in brain development *

Combined injectable contraceptive Combined injectable contraceptives (CICs) are a form of hormonal birth control for women. They consist of monthly injections of combined formulations containing an estrogen and a progestin to prevent pregnancy. CICs are different from progestoge ...

, taken to suppress fertility

Technology

Calculus of inductive constructions In mathematical logic and computer science, the calculus of constructions (CoC) is a type theory created by Thierry Coquand. It can serve as both a typed programming language and as constructive foundation for mathematics. For this second reason, ...

, a formal system used in logic, mathematics, and computer science * Carrier Identification Code, a four-digit telephony identification code * Cascaded integrator-comb, an economical class of digital filters for decimation and interpolation *

CIC (Nintendo) The Checking Integrated Circuit (CIC) is a lockout chip designed by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console in 1985; the chip is part of a system known as 10NES, in which a 'key' (which is stored in the game) is us ...

, a security lockout chip used in Nintendo game consoles *

Circuit identification code The ISDN Services User Part ( ISUP) Circuit Identification Code (CIC) is part of the Signaling System #7 which is used to set up telephone calls in Public Switched Telephone Networks as part of the Initial Address Message (IAM). When a telephone ...

, used in ISDN User Part * Clustered integer core, an AMD CPU architecture

Other uses

* Cambridge International Corpus, former name of the

Cambridge English Corpus The Cambridge English Corpus (CEC) (formerly the Cambridge International Corpus, CIC), is a multi-billion word corpus of English language (containing both text corpus and spoken corpus data). The Cambridge English Corpus contains data from a numbe ...

, a text corpus of English language * Catholic Integrated Community, a catholic community originating from Germany, active in Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, USA and Tanzania *

Certified Insurance Counselor In the United States, Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) is an insurance agent professional certification designation. The CIC certification program was started by the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research in Austin, Texas A ...

, an insurance agent professional certification designation *

Combat information center A combat information center (CIC) or action information centre (AIC) is a room in a warship or AWACS aircraft that functions as a tactical center and provides processed information for command and control of the near battlespace or area of op ...

, a military operations room * Commander-in-chief, the person or body that exercises supreme operational command and control of a nation's military forces * ''

Charles in Charge ''Charles in Charge'' is an American sitcom television series that premiered on October 3, 1984, on CBS. The series was a production of Al Burton Productions and Scholastic Productions in association with Universal Television and starred Scott B ...

'', an American sitcom series that ran until 1990 *

Chico Municipal Airport Chico Regional Airport is north of Chico, in Butte County, California, United States. The airport covers , has two runways and one helipad. Its fixed-base operator, Northgate Aviation provides fuel, maintenance, flight training, and charter f ...

(IATA airport code), California, US *

Code of Canon Law (disambiguation) Code of Canon Law () may refer to: * ''Corpus Juris Canonici'' ('Body of Canon Law'), a collection of sources of canon law of the Catholic Church applicable to the Latin Church until 1918 * 1917 Code of Canon Law, code of canon law for the Catholic ...

(''Codex Iuris Canonici''), the ecclesiastical law of the Latin Catholic Church * Commercial in confidence, referring to

classified information Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, ...

Community indifference curve A community indifference curve is an illustration of different combinations of commodity quantities that would bring a whole community the same level of utility. The model can be used to describe any community, such as a town or an entire nation. I ...

, in economics * Concours International Combiné, or "International Combined Contest", a category of competition in equestrianism * Critical illness cover, an insurance product paying out a lump sum on the diagnosis of a critical illness