LC or Lc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Library of Congress Classification The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic librar ...

, a system of library classification

Gaming and play

Lego Chess ''Lego Chess'' is a Lego-themed, chess-based strategy video game developed by Krisalis Software, published by Lego Media, and released for Microsoft Windows in 1998. Gameplay The rules of the game can be changed to cater to many popular vari ...

, a Lego-based chess video game *

Lego Creator Lego Creator is a Lego theme for generic models. Creator sets have few specialized bricks to create buildings, creatures, vehicles, and robots. Some sets featured instructions for three different possible builds from the bricks included and mos ...

, a theme of Lego * ''Lego Creator'' (video game), a Lego video game *

Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto) ''Grand Theft Auto'' (''GTA'') is a series of action-adventure games created by David Jones and Mike Dailly. Later titles were developed under the oversight of brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. It is primarily ...

, a fictional city in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' computer and video game series

Music

* ''LC'' (album), 1981 album by The Durutti Column * Lacuna Coil, an Italian gothic metal band *

Living Colour Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. The band currently consists of guitarist Vernon Reid, lead vocalist Corey Glover, drummer Will Calhoun and bassist Doug Wimbish (who replaced Muzz Skillings in 1992). S ...

, an American hard rock band formed in New York *

Los Campesinos! Los Campesinos! are a seven-piece indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in early 2006 at Cardiff University. Though the band formed in Wales, none of the members are Welsh people, Welsh. The band has gone through several lineup changes dur ...

, a British indie-rock band formed in Cardiff

In other media

* Licensed Companion, from the ''

In Death The ''...in Death'' series of novels and novellas is written by Nora Roberts under her pseudonym J. D. Robb. Set in a mid-21st-century New York City, they feature NYPSD ("New York City Police and Security Department") lieutenant Eve Dallas and he ...

'' novels of J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) *

Shop LC Shop LC, formerly known as Liquidation Channel and The Jewelry Channel, is an American cable television network based in Austin, Texas, which mainly specializes in selling jewelry. The network is a subsidiary of the Indian-based Vaibhav Global ...

, a 24/7 American shopping television channel

Businesses, organisations, and government agencies

Government agencies

Irish Land Commission The Irish Land Commission was created by the British crown in 1843 to 'inquire into the occupation of the land in Ireland. The office of the commission was in Dublin Castle, and the records were, on its conclusion, deposited in the records tower t ...

(or simply Land Commission), a rent fixing commission by the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 *

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library ...

, the ''de facto'' United States national library * Liquor Control, including the

Liquor Control Board of Ontario The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is a Crown corporations of Canada, Crown corporation that retails and distributes alcoholic beverages throughout the Provinces of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. It is accountable to the Legislati ...

and the

Manitoba Liquor Control Commission The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) was a Crown corporation mandated with regulating, distributing, and selling beverage alcohol in the Canadian province of Manitoba. In 2014, the Manitoba government merged MLCC with the Manitoba ...

Local Council (Uganda) A Local Council (LC) is a form of local elected government within the districts of Uganda. Background Uganda has been holding elections consistently for more than 30 years now, at the different levels including Presidential, Parliamentary, D ...

, a form of local elected government within the districts of Uganda * Technical Department of the

Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany) The Ministry of Aviation (german: Reichsluftfahrtministerium, abbreviated RLM) was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933–45). It is also the original name of the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus building on the Wilhelmstrasse ...

in charge of research and development (LC, but more often referred to as C-amt) * Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway, a state-operated commuter rail service in the Kanpur-Lucknow region of India

Religious organizations

Latin Catholic , native_name_lang = la , image = San Giovanni in Laterano - Rome.jpg , imagewidth = 250px , alt = Façade of the Archbasilica of St. John in Lateran , caption = Archbasilica of Saint Joh ...

Church, or Roman Catholic Church *

Legion of Christ The Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ ( la, Congregatio Legionariorum Christi; abbreviated LC; also Legion of Christ) is a Roman Catholic clerical religious order made up of priests and candidates for the priesthood established by Marcia ...

, a Roman Catholic religious order of priests *

Liberty Counsel Liberty Counsel is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt religious liberty organization that engages in litigation related to evangelical Christian values. Liberty Counsel was founded in 1989 by its chairman Mathew Staver and its president Anita L. Staver, who a ...

, a legal organization dedicated to advancing specific religious freedoms

Schools

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

, a private college in Easton, Pennsylvania, US *

Laguna College The Laguna College, more popularly known by its initials LC, is a private, nonsectarian, co-educational institution located in San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of ...

, a non-sectarian, private school in San Pablo City, Laguna *

Launceston College (Tasmania) Launceston College is a government comprehensive senior secondary school located in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Established in 1913 as the Launceston State High School and subsequently known as Launceston College, the college caters for ...

, a public senior-secondary school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia *

Letran College The Colegio de San Juan de Letran, (transl: College of San Juan de Letran) also referred to by its acronym CSJL, is a private Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution owned and run by the friars of the Order of Preachers i ...

in Manila, Philippines *

Lewis and Clark Community College Lewis and Clark Community College is a public community college in Godfrey, Illinois. It serves approximately 15,000 credit and non-credit students annually. The college has nine locations throughout the St. Louis Metro East, including a campu ...

, a community college in Godfrey, Illinois, US *

Lomagundi College , location = Old Strip Road , city = Chinhoyi , province = Mashonaland West , country = Zimbabwe , coordinates = , opened = , type = Independent, boarding and day school , headmaster = Dean Seeliger , teaching_staff = 42 , grades_label ...

, an independent, boarding school in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe *

Loomis Chaffee The Loomis Chaffee School (; LC or Loomis) is a selective independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, including postgraduate students, located in Windsor, Connecticut, seven miles north ...

, a coeducational boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, US *

Lynchburg College The University of Lynchburg, formerly Lynchburg College, is a private university associated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and located in Lynchburg, Virginia. It has approximately 2,800 undergraduate and graduate students. ...

, a private liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia, US *

Lynden Christian Schools Lynden Christian Schools (abbreviated LCS), often referred to as Lynden Christian (LC), is a non-denominational private Christian school. The school educates 1200 students in Whatcom County, Washington, United States The United State ...

, a private school in Lynden, Washington, US

Other businesses and organizations

Latvian Way Latvian Way ( lv, Latvijas Ceļš) was a conservative-liberal political party in Latvia. It merged with Latvia's First Party to form the Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way (LPP/LC) in 2007. It described itself as "a liberal party defending peopl ...

, a political party of Latvia *

LC Perú LC Perú S.A.C. was a Peruvian airline based in Lima, Peru. It operated scheduled domestic flights. Its main base was Jorge Chávez International Airport.. History The company was founded in 1993, they started operations as a cargo agent. In 199 ...

, a Peruvian airline *

Lean Cuisine Lean Cuisine is a brand of frozen entrées and dinners sold in the United States and Canada by Nestlé, and in Australia by Vesco (under a licensing agreement with Nestlé). The brand began as low-fat, low-calorie versions of Stouffer's product ...

, a brand of microwaveable meals *

LendingClub LendingClub is a financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was the first peer-to-peer lender to register its offerings as securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and to offer loan trading o ...

, NYSE ticker symbol LC *

Lotta Continua Lotta Continua (LC; en, Continuous Struggle) was a far-left paramilitary organization in Italy. It was founded in autumn 1969 by a split in the student-worker movement of Turin, which had started militant activity at the universities and factor ...

, a former far-left extra-parliamentary organization in Italy *

Varig Logística Varig Logística S.A., operating as VarigLog, was a cargo airline, based in Jardim Aeroporto, Campo Belo, São Paulo, Brazil. All operations were suspended on 1 February 2012 and on 27 September 2012 it was declared bankrupt. History Varig Ca ...

(IATA airline designator LC)

Economics and finance

Letter of credit A letter of credit (LC), also known as a documentary credit or bankers commercial credit, or letter of undertaking (LoU), is a payment mechanism used in international trade to provide an economic guarantee from a creditworthy bank to an ex ...

, a document issued to provide a payment undertaking *

Local currency In economics, a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations. A regional currency is a form of local currency encompassing a larger geographical area, while a community curren ...

, also referred to as Local Currency Unit or LCU

People

Lorne Cardinal Lorne Cardinal (born 6 January 1964) is a Canadian stage, television and film actor, best known for portraying Davis Quinton on ''Corner Gas''. He is a former rugby union player. Early life Cardinal was born on a reserve of the Sucker Creek ...

, stage and television actor *

Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of ...

, Mexican painter/surrealist *

Liz Claiborne Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne (March 31, 1929 – June 26, 2007) was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. Her success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that co ...

, fashion designer *

Les Claypool Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and author. He is best known as the founder, lead singer, bassist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the ro ...

, bassist best known for his work with Primus *

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist *

Laveranues Coles Laveranues Leon Coles (; born December 29, 1977) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the New York Jets. He played college football ...

, New York Jets wide receiver * Lauren Conrad, fashion designer and former reality TV star on ''The Hills'' and ''Laguna Beach'' * Le Corbusier, architect, and a series of furniture designed by same

Places

Las Cruces, New Mexico Las Cruces (; "the crosses") is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 census the population was 111,385. Las Cruces is the largest city in both Doña Ana County and southern Ne ...

, US *

LC, Swansea The LC is a leisure centre located in the city centre of Swansea, Wales, UK. Originally Swansea Leisure Centre, it was re-branded as 'The LC' when the facility re-opened to the public on 1 March 2008 after a £32-million makeover. The LC's exte ...

, a Leisure Centre in Wales * Leicester, a city in the United Kingdom *

Lewis Center Lewis Center (also Lewis Centre) is an unincorporated community in northwestern Orange Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States, in the Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its ZIP code is 43035. Although Lewis Center is a small ...

, Ohio, United States *

Little Compton, Rhode Island Little Compton is a coastal town in Newport County, Rhode Island, bounded on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Sakonnet River, on the north by the town of Tiverton, and on the east by the town of Westport, Massachusetts. The pop ...

, US *

Lučenec Lučenec (; german: Lizenz; hu, Losonc; yi, לאשאנץ; la, Lutetia HungarorumLelkes György (1992), Magyar helységnév-azonosító szótár, Balassi Kiadó, Budapest, 508 p.) is a town in the Banská Bystrica Region of south-central Slovaki ...

, a town in Slovakia * Saint Lucia, ISO 3166-1 country code

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* × ''Laeliocattleya'', a genus of orchids *

Langerhans cell A Langerhans cell (LC) is a tissue-resident macrophage of the skin. These cells contain organelles called Birbeck granules. They are present in all layers of the epidermis and are most prominent in the stratum spinosum. They also occur in the ...

, a tissue-resident macrophage * Lethal concentration, a means to quantitatively indicate a gas or aerosol hazard *

Lignocellulose Lignocellulose refers to plant dry matter (biomass), so called lignocellulosic biomass. It is the most abundantly available raw material on the Earth for the production of biofuels. It is composed of two kinds of carbohydrate polymers, cellulose a ...

* Locus coeruleus, a noradrenergic nucleus in the brain stem *

Long COVID Long COVID or long-haul COVID (also known as post-COVID-19 syndrome, post-COVID-19 condition, post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), or chronic COVID syndrome (CCS)) is a condition characterized by long-term health problems persisting or app ...

, a term for aftereffects occurring after recovering from and presumed to be caused by COVID-19

Ecology

Least Concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

, a World Conservation Union "Red List of Threatened Species" category

Electronics and computing

.lc .lc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia, sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico and created on September 3, 1991. The registry is operated by Afilias and markets towards companies structured as LCs, LLCs ...

, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia *

Macintosh LC family The Macintosh LC is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1990 to 1997. Introduced alongside the Macintosh IIsi and Macintosh Classic as part of a new wave of lower-priced Macintosh compute ...

, a range of personal computers manufactured by Apple in the early 1990s *

Macintosh LC The Macintosh LC is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1990 to March 1992. Overview The first in the Macintosh LC family, the LC was introduced with the Macintosh Classic (a repackaging o ...

, the first computer in the Macintosh LC family * LC-type

optical fiber connector An optical fiber connector joins optical fibers, and enables quicker connection and disconnection than splicing. The connectors mechanically couple and align the cores of fibers so light can pass. Better connectors lose very little light due ...

* LC circuit, in electronics, a circuit with an inductor and a capacitor *

Linear cryptanalysis In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis based on finding affine approximations to the action of a cipher. Attacks have been developed for block ciphers and stream ciphers. Linear cryptanalysis is one of the two mos ...

, a form of cryptanalysis *

Lines of Code Source lines of code (SLOC), also known as lines of code (LOC), is a software metric used to measure the size of a computer program by counting the number of lines in the text of the program's source code. SLOC is typically used to predict the am ...

* Logic cell, in Field-programmable gate arrays

Vehicles

Toyota Land Cruiser The (also sometimes spelled as LandCruiser) is a series of four-wheel drive vehicles produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. It is Toyota's longest running series of models. , the sales of the Land Cruiser totalled more than ...

, an SUV built by Toyota Motor Corporation *

Lexus LC The is a grand tourer manufactured by Lexus, Toyota's luxury division. Based on the 2012 LF-LC Concept, it was revealed at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. It replaced the SC, which was produced from 1991 to 2010. ...

, a grand tourer built by Toyota Motor Corporation * Geely LC, a hatchback car * Landing craft, used to convey infantry and vehicles to shore in an amphibious assault

Other uses in science and technology

Launch Complex A launch pad is an above-ground facility from which a rocket-powered missile or space vehicle is vertically launched. The term ''launch pad'' can be used to describe just the central launch platform (mobile launcher platform), or the entire ...

, a rocket launch site *

Leading coefficient In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor in some term of a polynomial, a series, or an expression; it is usually a number, but may be any expression (including variables such as , and ). When the coefficients are themselves v ...

, in mathematics *

Leeuwin Current The Leeuwin Current is a warm ocean current which flows southwards near the western coast of Australia. It rounds Cape Leeuwin to enter the waters south of Australia where its influence extends as far as Tasmania. Discovery The existence of the ...

, a warm ocean current *

Liquid chromatography In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture into its components. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid solvent (gas or liquid) called the ''mobile phase'', which carries it through a system (a ...

, an analytical chemistry technique * Liquid crystal, a phase of matter with properties between a solid and a liquid state, commonly used in displays

Other uses

* Law corporation, a special type of limited liability corporation available for single attorneys in

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

* Leaving Certificate, the final course in the Irish secondary school system *

Letter case Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

, used in orthography and typography to denote the difference between capital and non-capital letters ** Lower case lettering *

Level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel. The term a ...

, on some maps, an intersection of a railway line and road at the same level * '' Loc. cit.'' (''loco citato''), in citations, used to repeat a citation, including the page to which the citation refers *

Long course An Olympic-size swimming pool conforms to regulated dimensions that are large enough for international competition. This type of swimming pool is used in the Olympic Games, where the race course is in length, typically referred to as "long cour ...

, an Olympic-size swimming pool *

Lord Chancellor The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. Th ...

, a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom