PIC or pic may refer to:
Places
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Penbay International Circuit
Penbay International Circuit (PIC; ) is a motor sport circuit in Donggang, Pingtung, Donggang Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. The circuit is long with widths from 12m to 20m. It has five configurations. It officially opened on 9 October 2011 ...
, or PIC, a motor track circuit in Pingtung County, Taiwan
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Pic River, in Ontario, Canada
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Picayune (Amtrak station) (Amtrak station code PIC), Mississippi, United States
* Pic, abbreviation for
Pictor, a southern constellation
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Pacific island countries
People
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Anna Pic (born 1978), French politician
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Anne-Sophie Pic (born 1969), French cook
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Charles Pic
Charles Maurice Marcel Pic (; born 15 February 1990) is a French former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from to .
Born and raised in Montélimar, Montélimar, Drôme, Pic began kart racing, karting aged 13 wi ...
(born 1990), French Formula One driver
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Maurice Pic (1866–1957), French entomologist
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Tina Pic (born 1966), American racing cyclist
Enterprises and organizations
* PIC, a mark used by the former
Phoenix Iron Company
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Pickleball International Committee, a governing body for the sport of pickleball
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Poison information center, a medical facility
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Public Investment Corporation, a South African state-owned asset management firm
Government and politics
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Palestinian Information Center, a news website
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Partido Independiente de Color
The (PIC) was a Cuban political party composed almost entirely of African former slaves. It was founded in 1908 by African veterans of the Cuban War of Independence. In 1912, the PIC led a revolt in the eastern province of Oriente. The revo ...
, a former Cuban political party
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Peace Implementation Council, an international body charged with a peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Population Investigation Committee
The Population Investigation Committee is a United Kingdom social research group founded in 1936 by the council of the British Eugenics Society.
Its original members included David V. Glass, Griselda Rowntree and J.W.B. Douglas. Since the seco ...
, a United Kingdom social research group founded in 1936
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Provincial Iraqi Control, an objective of the Iraqi Government and Multi-National Forces in Iraq
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Prison–industrial complex
The prison–industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the " military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (such as prisons, jails, dete ...
, attribution of the U.S.'s high incarceration rate to profit
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Presidential Inaugural Committee, in the U.S.
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Pakistan Information Commission
The Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) operates as an independent and self-governing entity, established in accordance with Section 18 of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017. Its primary function is to create systems and processes that ...
Law and policy
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Plan inclusive counterplan
This is a glossary of policy debate terms.
Affirmative
In policy debate (also called ''cross-examination debate'' in some circuits, namely the University Interscholastic League of Texas), the ''Affirmative'' is the team that affirms the resol ...
, a term in policy debate
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Presubscribed interexchange carrier
An interexchange carrier (IXC), in U.S. legal and regulatory terminology, is a type of telecommunications company, commonly called a long-distance telephone company. It is defined as any carrier that provides services across multiple local acces ...
, or predesignated interexchange carrier, the long-distance telephone company to which calls from a subscriber line are routed by default
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Prior informed consent
Informed consent is an applied ethics principle that a person must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about accepting risk. Pertinent information may include risks and benefits of treatments, alternative treatme ...
, a legal condition
Medicine and biochemistry
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Peripherally inserted central catheter
A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC or PICC line), also called a percutaneous indwelling central catheter or longline, is a form of intravenous access that can be used for a prolonged period of time (e.g., for long chemotherapy regi ...
, an intravenous access
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Pre-integration complex The pre-integration complex (PIC) is a nucleoprotein complex of viral genetic material and associated viral and host proteins which is capable of inserting a viral genome into a host genome. The PIC forms after uncoating of a viral particle after ...
, a complex of proteins and genetic material used by the virus HIV
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Transcription preinitiation complex
The preinitiation complex (abbreviated PIC) is a complex of approximately 100 proteins that is necessary for the transcription (genetics), transcription of protein-coding genes in eukaryotes and archaea. The preinitiation complex positions RNA po ...
, a large complex of proteins necessary for transcription of protein-coding genes in eukaryotes
Technology
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Particle-in-cell
In plasma physics, the particle-in-cell (PIC) method refers to a technique used to solve a certain class of partial differential equations. In this method, individual particles (or fluid elements) in a Lagrangian frame are tracked in continuous ...
, a technique used to solve certain partial differential equations
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Personal Internet Communicator
The Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) is a consumer device released by AMD in 2004 as part of AMD's 50x15 Initiative to enable people in emerging countries access to the internet. The PIC was deployed by Internet service providers (ISPs) in s ...
, a 2004 consumer device designed for low-cost access to the internet
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Photonic integrated circuit
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a microchip containing two or more photonic components that form a functioning circuit. This technology detects, generates, transports, and processes light. Photonic integrated ci ...
, a device that integrates multiple photonic functions
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pic language, a domain-specific language for specifying diagrams
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PIC microcontroller
PIC (usually pronounced as /pɪk/) is a family of microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology, derived from the PIC1640 originally developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics Division. The name PIC initially referred to ''Peripher ...
, a family of products made by Microchip Technology
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PICtor PIC image format, a file format developed in the 1980s for PCPaint
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Pixar Image Computer
The Pixar Image Computer is a graphics computer originally developed by the Graphics Group, the computer division of Lucasfilm, which was later renamed Pixar. Aimed at commercial and scientific high-end visualization markets, such as medicine, ge ...
, a 1980s high-end graphics computer
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Plastic identification code, a symbol used to identify types of plastic for recycling
* "Plastic-
insulated conductor", a common type of electrical wire or cable
** Here the "P" in the "PIC" acronym is often taken to represent words or phrases besides, or in addition to, "plastic". Frequently these are various
types of plastic, as the names of many begin with .
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Polymorphic inline cache, a virtual machine optimization technology
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Position-independent code
In computing, position-independent code (PIC) or position-independent executable (PIE) is a body of machine code that executes properly regardless of its memory address. PIC is commonly used for shared libraries, so that the same library code c ...
, machine instruction code that executes properly regardless of where in memory it resides
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Programmable integrated circuit, an electronic component
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Programmable interrupt controller
In computing, a programmable interrupt controller (PIC) is an integrated circuit that helps a microprocessor (or CPU) handle interrupt requests (IRQs) coming from multiple different sources (like external I/O devices) which may occur simultane ...
, an integrated circuit type
Other uses
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Particulate inorganic carbon, found in the ocean
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Paid-in capital
Paid-in capital (also paid-up capital and contributed capital) is capital that is contributed to a corporation by investors by purchase of stock from the corporation, the primary market, not by purchase of stock in the open market fro ...
, contributed to a corporation by investors on top of the par value of capital stock
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Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention, an international instrument between countries and pharmaceutical inspection authorities
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Philippine Independent Church
The Philippine Independent Church (; ), officially referred to by its Philippine Spanish name (IFI) and colloquially called the Aglipayan Church, is an independent catholic Christian denomination, in the form of a nationalist church, in the ...
, a Christian denomination
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''Pic'' (novel), 1971, by Jack Kerouac
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Picard group
In mathematics, the Picard group of a ringed space ''X'', denoted by Pic(''X''), is the group of isomorphism classes of invertible sheaves (or line bundles) on ''X'', with the group operation being tensor product. This construction is a global ver ...
, in algebraic geometry
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Piccadilly line
The Piccadilly line is a Deep level underground, deep-level London Underground line running between the west and the north of London. It has two western branches which split at Acton Town tube station, Acton Town and serves 53 stations. The li ...
, or "The Pic", on the London Underground
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Pilot in command
The pilot in command (PIC) of an aircraft is the person aboard an aircraft who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the captain in a typical two- or three- pilot aircrew, or "pilot" if there is only ...
, the person aboard an aircraft responsible for its operation and safety during flight
* PIC, an abbreviation used in fandom for the American television series ''
Star Trek: Picard''
* ICAO airline code for
Pacific Airlines
See also
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Picture
An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a proje ...
(common abbreviation)
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** (a common beginning to French mountain peak names)
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