Pac or PAC may refer to:

Military

Rapid Deployment Force (Malaysia) The Malaysian Rapid Deployment Force ( Abbr.: RDF; ) is a force that capable to be quickly deployed during an emergency (wartime or peacetime) to various places in short time notice usually via air transport or light land transport. There are two c ...

, an armed forces unit * Patriot Advanced Capability, of the

MIM-104 Patriot The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar compon ...

missile *

Civil Defense Patrols The Civil Defense Patrols ( es, Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil, PAC) were local militias created by the government of Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War. They were created by decree of General Ríos Montt on 1 August 1982, though they beg ...

(''Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil''), Guatemalan militia and paramilitary group

Geography

* Pac, Albania, a village in Bytyç

Organizations

Aviation

* IATA code PAC Albrook "Marcos A. Gelabert" International Airport in Panama City, Panama * Pacific Aerospace Corporation, New Zealand, manufacturer of aircraft: ** PAC 750XL **

PAC Cresco The PAC Cresco is a turboprop-powered derivative of the Fletcher FU-24 (later called the PAC Fletcher) aerial topdressing aircraft, manufactured by the Pacific Aerospace Corporation in Hamilton, New Zealand. The Cresco was superseded by the PAC ...

PAC CT/4 The Pacific Aerospace Corporation CT/4 Airtrainer series is an all-metal-construction, single-engine, two-place with side-by-side seating, fully aerobatic, piston-engined, basic training aircraft manufactured in Hamilton, New Zealand. History ...

PAC Fletcher Pac or PAC may refer to: Military * Rapid Deployment Force (Malaysia), an armed forces unit * Patriot Advanced Capability, of the MIM-104 Patriot missile * Civil Defense Patrols (''Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil''), Guatemalan militia and paramili ...

Pakistan Aeronautical Complex The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex ( ur, ), or PAC) is a major defense contractor and an aerospace manufacturer that is headquartered in Kamra, Punjab, Pakistan. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex is one of the largest defense contractor in ...

, aerospace manufacturer *

Polar Air Cargo Polar Air Cargo Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, is a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, United States. It operates scheduled all-cargo services to North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Its main b ...

airline, Purchase, New York, US

Business

Panasonic Avionics Corporation Panasonic Avionics Corporation (PAC) designs, engineers, manufactures, sells and installs customized in-flight entertainment and communications devices to airlines worldwide. It is a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the princi ...

, produces equipment and services for in-flight entertainment etc. *

Peruvian Amazon Company The Peruvian Amazon Company, also called the Anglo-Peruvian Amazon Rubber Co, was a rubber boom company that operated in Peru in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Based in Iquitos, it became notorious for the ill treatment of its indigenous workers ...

, a former rubber company * Planned Amortization Class, a type of

collateralized mortgage obligation A collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) is a type of complex debt security that repackages and directs the payments of principal and interest from a collateral pool to different types and maturities of securities, thereby meeting investor need ...

* Price Activity Chart, in stock technical analysis *

Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento The Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (Growth Acceleration Program), better known as PAC, is a major infrastructure program of the Federal government of Brazil. The program was launched on January 28, 2007, by the Lula da Silva administrati ...

, an investment plan in Brazil

Education

Panasonic Academic Challenge The National Tournament of Academic Excellence (NTAE) (formerly known as the Panasonic Academic Challenge AC is a national high school academic competition run by the Florida Department of Education. The tournament resembles the Florida's own Com ...

, a US national competition *

Postgraduate Applications Centre {{primary sources, date=May 2008 Postgraduate Applications Centre (PAC) is an organisation that processes applications for large number of postgraduate courses in the Republic of Ireland. Institutions which currently accept applications through P ...

, Ireland *

Prince Alfred College , motto_translation = Do Brave Deeds and Endure , established = 1869 , type = Independent, single-sex, day & boarding , headmaster = David Roberts , chaplain = Reverend ...

, Australia * Professionals' Academy of Commerce, an accounting school in Pakistan *

Peres Academic Center The Peres Academic Center ( he, המרכז האקדמי פרס ''Ha-Merkaz ha-Akademi Peres'') is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian college in Rehovot, Israel. It was founded in 2006 by Ofra Elul. The president of the Center is Prof. Amos Dr ...

, a private college in Israel

Politics

Anti-Corruption Party The Anti-Corruption Party ( es, Partido Anticorrupción de Honduras, PAC) is a political party in Honduras. It was founded by sports journalist/television presenter Salvador Nasralla, who ran unsuccessfully in the 2013 Honduran presidential el ...

(''Partido Anti-Corrupción''), Honduras *

Armed Proletarians for Communism Armed (May, 1941–1964) was an American Thoroughbred gelding race horse who was the American Horse of the Year in 1947 and Champion Older Male Horse in both 1946 and 1947. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in ...

(''Proletari Armati per il Comunismo''), a former Italian group *

Pan Africanist Congress The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (known as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)) is a South African national liberation Pan-Africanist movement that is now a political party. It was founded by an Africanist group, led by Robert Sobukwe, that ...

, South Africa *

Partido Acción Ciudadana (disambiguation) Partido Acción Ciudadana may refer to: * Citizens' Action Party (Costa Rica) * Party for Citizen Action The Citizens' Action Party ( - PAC) is a Nicaraguan political party founded by the former legislative representative of the Sandinista Renova ...

, several political parties in Latin America *

Peoples' Aman Committee The Peoples' Aman Committee ( ur, پیپلز امن کمیٹی) was an alleged militant group tied to the Pakistan People's Party and based in Karachi, Pakistan. The PAC was founded by the infamous Karachi gangster Rehman Dakait in 2008 and is acc ...

, a criminal gang and welfare group associated with the Pakistan Peoples Party * Political action committee, U.S. political fundraiser *

Political Affairs Committee (British Guiana) The Political Affairs Committee (PAC) was a political party in British Guiana. History The PAC was formed on 6 November 1946 by Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan, Ashton Chase and Jocelyn Hubbard.Polish American Congress The Polish American Congress (PAC) is an American umbrella organization of Polish-Americans and Polish-American organizations. Its membership has fraternal, educational, veterans, religious, cultural, social, business, political organizations, and i ...

Public Accounts Committee (India) The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a committee of selected members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the purpose of auditing the revenue and the expenditure of the Government of India. They check that parliament exercise ...

Public Accounts Committee (Malaysia) The Public Accounts Committee ( Malay: ''Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara'') (PAC) is a select committee of the House of Representatives in the Parliament of Malaysia. The PAC derives its powers from the Dewan Rakyat which chooses the committee ch ...

Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom) The Committee of Public Accounts is a select committee of the British House of Commons. It is responsible for overseeing government expenditures, and to ensure they are effective and honest. The committee is seen as a crucial mechanism for e ...

* Public Affairs Committee (Malawi)

Other organizations

Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a museum of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. It is on via Palestro, next to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and across from the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli. History In 1947 the Municipality o ...

, a museum in Milan, Italy * Pedorthic Association of Canada *

Provincial Armed Constabulary Provincial may refer to: Government & Administration * Provincial capitals, an administrative sub-national capital of a country * Provincial city (disambiguation) * Provincial minister (disambiguation) * Provincial Secretary, a position in Can ...

Public Assistance Committee A Public Assistance Committee (PAC), in the UK, was a body locally created after the abolition of the boards of guardians in 1930 by the Local Government Act 1929, when their powers and responsibilities for poor relief were passed to county and co ...

, former UK institution for assisting the poor

People

Pac (wrestler) Benjamin Satterley (born 22 August 1986), better known by his ring name Pac, is an English professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he was the inaugural AEW All-Atlantic Champion. He is one-third of the ...

(born 1986), English professional wrestler *

Pac (family) The House of Pac or Pacowie ( pl, Pacowie, lt, Pacai, be, Па́цы) was one of the most influential noble families in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the era of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Numerous high-ranking officials of ...

, of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania *

Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru Shakur ( ; born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He is widely considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. Shakur is among the Li ...

or Pac, 2Pac (1971–1996), American rapper

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Physician assistant, certified, commonly abbreviated in the USA as PA-C * Plasma

aldosterone Aldosterone is the main mineralocorticoid steroid hormone produced by the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex in the adrenal gland. It is essential for sodium conservation in the kidney, salivary glands, sweat glands, and colon. It plays a c ...

concentration *

Post-abortion care Post-abortion care (PAC) is treatment and counseling for post-abortion women. It includes curative care, such as treating abortion complications, as well as preventative care, such as providing birth control to prevent future unwanted pregnancies. P ...

Pre-anesthesia checkup Preanesthetic assessment (also called Preanesthesia evaluation, Pre-anesthesia checkup (PAC) or simply Preanesthesia) is a medical check-up and laboratory investigations done by an anesthesia provider or a registered nurse before an operation, to as ...

Premature atrial contraction Premature atrial contraction (PAC), also known as atrial premature complexes (APC) or atrial premature beats (APB), are a common cardiac dysrhythmia characterized by premature heartbeats originating in the atria. While the sinoatrial node typic ...

, a cardiac dysrhythmia *

Photoactivated adenylyl cyclase Photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC) is a protein consisting of an adenylyl cyclase Protein domain, enzyme domain directly linked to a BLUF domain, BLUF (blue light receptor using FAD) type light sensor domain. When illuminated with blue light, th ...

, a light-sensitive protein *

Proanthocyanidin Proanthocyanidins are a class of polyphenols found in many plants, such as cranberry, blueberry, and grape seeds. Chemically, they are oligomeric flavonoids. Many are oligomers of catechin and epicatechin and their gallic acid esters. More complex ...

, a type of flavanol *

Pulmonary artery catheterization A pulmonary artery catheter (PAC), also known as a Swan-Ganz catheter or right heart catheter, is a balloon-tipped catheter that is inserted into a pulmonary artery in a procedure known as pulmonary artery catheterization or right heart cathete ...

Computing and industrial

* Pacifica Coin, see List of TCP and UDP port numbers#Registered_ports * Pin Array Cartridge, an integrated circuit packaging type *

Probably approximately correct In computational learning theory, probably approximately correct (PAC) learning is a framework for mathematical analysis of machine learning. It was proposed in 1984 by Leslie Valiant.L. Valiant. A theory of the learnable.' Communications of the A ...

, in machine learning * Presentation–abstraction–control, in software architecture * Programmable Automation Controller; see

Computer appliance A computer appliance is a home appliance with software or firmware that is specifically designed to provide a specific computing resource. Such devices became known as ''appliances'' because of the similarity in role or management to a home ap ...

* Proxy auto-config, a web browser technology

Other science and technology

Perturbed angular correlation The perturbed γ-γ angular correlation, PAC for short or PAC-Spectroscopy, is a method of nuclear solid-state physics with which magnetic and electric fields in crystal structures can be measured. In doing so, electrical field gradients and the L ...

* Polyaluminium chloride, less effective than

aluminium chlorohydrate Aluminium chlorohydrate is a group of water-soluble, specific aluminium salts having the general formula Aln Cl(3n-m)( OH)m. It is used in cosmetics as an antiperspirant and as a coagulant in water purification. In water purification, this compou ...

for water treatment * Porting Authorisation Code, to transfer mobile phone numbers *

Pseudo algebraically closed field In mathematics, a field (mathematics), field K is pseudo algebraically closed if it satisfies certain properties which hold for algebraically closed fields. The concept was introduced by James Ax in 1967.Fried & Jarden (2008) p.218 Formulation A ...

(PAC field), in mathematics * Powdered activated carbon, used in

electrochemical regeneration The electrochemical regeneration of activated carbon based adsorption, adsorbents involves the removal of molecules adsorbed onto the surface of the adsorbent with the use of an electric current in an electrochemical cell restoring the carbon's adso ...

* ''

Pure and Applied Chemistry ''Pure and Applied Chemistry'' is the official journal for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). It is published monthly by Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publ ...

'', the official monthly journal of IUPAC

Sports

Pocket Athletic Conference The Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Most of the conference's 13 members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools currently located in Davi ...

, a USA (Indiana) high school athletic conference * Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, former name of the

Colonial States Athletic Conference The Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference in the Mid-Atlantic United States. There are currently nine full member institutions as of 2018. The conference's membership, as with most Midd ...

, an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference located in Pennsylvania, United States *

Presidents' Athletic Conference The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Of its 11 current member schools, all private, liberal arts institutions of higher learning, nine are located in Western Pennsylvania. T ...

, an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference located in the Appalachian region of the United States

Other uses

* Pan Asian Coalition, faction in the computer game ''

Battlefield 2142 ''Battlefield 2142'' is a 2006 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fourth game in the ''Battlefield'' series. ''Battlefield 2142'' is set in 2142, depicting a war known as "The Cold Wa ...

'' * Parent-Adult-Child, a model in transactional analysis *

Perfect authentic cadence In Western musical theory, a cadence (Latin ''cadentia'', "a falling") is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (1999) ...

, in music *

Performing arts center Performing arts center/centre (see spelling differences), often abbreviated as PAC, is used to refer to: * A multi-use performance space that is intended for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. :The ...

Providence Anime Conference Providence Anime Conference (PAC) was a three-day anime convention held in Providence, Rhode Island. It was the first 21-and-older anime convention. PAC was created by the New England Anime Society, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit organization al ...

, 2008