LIC is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to: *

Hlai language The Hlai languages ( zh, s=黎语, p=Líyǔ) are a primary branch of the Kra–Dai language family spoken in the mountains of central and south-central Hainan in China by the Hlai people, not to be confused with the colloquial name for the Lei ...

(an ISO639-3 code: lic) *

Laudetur Iesus Christus or is a traditional Catholic salutation, which members of religious communities commonly use, especially those of specific ethnicities. Typical answers to this greeting are ''Semper laudetur'' (“Always be praised”); '' In sæcula sæculorum ...

, a Roman Catholic greeting * Abbreviation for

license A license (American English) or licence (Commonwealth English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit). A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another part ...

* Licentiate, a degree *

Life Insurance Corporation The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is an Indian public sector life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's largest insurance company as well as the largest institutional investor with total assets under management wo ...

, an Indian government-owned corporation * ''LIC'' or ''Love Insurance Corporation'', working title for the Indian film '' Love Insurance Kompany'' *

Ligand-gated ion channel Ligand-gated ion channels (LICs, LGIC), also commonly referred to as ionotropic receptors, are a group of transmembrane ion-channel proteins which open to allow ions such as sodium, Na+, potassium, K+, calcium, Ca2+, and/or chloride, Cl− to ...

, a family of proteins *

Ligation-independent cloning Ligation-independent cloning (LIC) is a form of molecular cloning that can be performed without the use of restriction endonucleases or DNA ligase DNA ligase is a type of enzyme that facilitates the joining of DNA strands together by catalyzing ...

, a form of molecular cloning *

Line integral convolution In scientific visualization, line integral convolution (LIC) is a method to visualize a vector field (such as fluid motion) at high spatial resolutions. The LIC technique was first proposed by Brian Cabral and Leith Casey Leedom in 1993. In LIC, ...

, a technique to visualize fluid motion * Linear

integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

Listed investment company A listed investment company (LIC) is an Australian '' closed-end'' collective investment scheme similar to investment trusts in the UK and closed-end funds in the United States. Instead of regularly issuing new shares or canceling shares as invest ...

, the Australian term for "closed-end fund" *

Lithium-ion capacitor A lithium-ion capacitor (LIC or LiC) is a hybrid type of capacitor classified as a type of supercapacitor. It is called a hybrid because the anode is the same as those used in lithium-ion batteries and the cathode is the same as those used in su ...

Livestock Improvement Corporation Livestock Improvement Corporation, or LIC, is a New Zealand multinational farmer-owned co-operative which, for more than 100 years, has provided genetics expertise, information and technology to the dairy sector, aimed at improving the prosperit ...

, a multinational dairy farming technology co-operative headquartered in New Zealand *

Local Interstellar Cloud The Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), also known as the Local Fluff, is an interstellar cloud roughly across, through which the Solar System is moving. This feature overlaps with a region around the Sun referred to as the solar neighborhood. It i ...

, an interstellar cloud *

Long Island City Long Island City (LIC) is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brook ...

, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City *

Low intensity conflict A low-intensity conflict (LIC) is a military conflict, usually localised, between two or more state or non-state groups which is below the intensity of conventional war. It involves the state's use of military forces applied selectively and wit ...

, in warfare *

Low-income country The least developed countries (LDCs) are developing countries listed by the United Nations that exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development. The concept of LDCs originated in the late 1960s and the first group of LDCs was listed by ...

, a form of categorizing a country's level of development * ''Lugar de Importancia Comunitaria'', name for

Site of Community Importance A Site of Community Importance (SCI) is defined in the European Commission Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) as a site which, in the biogeographical region or regions to which it belongs, contributes significantly to the maintenance or restoration at ...

in Spain

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