VC may refer to:

Military decorations

* Victoria Cross, a military decoration awarded by the United Kingdom and also by certain Commonwealth nations ** Victoria Cross for Australia ** Victoria Cross (Canada) ** Victoria Cross for New Zealand * Victorious Cross, Idi Amin's self-bestowed military decoration

Organisations

* Ocean Airlines (IATA airline designator 2003-2008), Italian cargo airline * Voyageur Airways (IATA airline designator since 1968), Canadian charter airline * Visual Communications, an Asian-Pacific-American media arts organization in Los Angeles, US * Viet Cong (also Victor Charlie or Vietnamese Communists), a political and military organization from the Vietnam War (1959–1975)

Education

* Vanier College, Canada * Vassar College, US * Velez College, Philippines * Virginia College, US

Places

* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO country code), a state in the Caribbean *

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(ICAO airport prefix code) * Watsonian vice-counties, subdivisions of Great Britain or Ireland

Science and technology

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(area postrema), a structure in the brain * Vital capacity, a maximum amount of air a person can expel from the lungs after a maximum

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Chemistry

* Vanadium carbide, an inorganic compound * Vinyl chloride, a chemical used in the production of PVC * Victorium, a mixture of the elements gadolinium and terbium * Vitamin C, a vitamin

Computing and telecommunications

.vc .vc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Registration is open worldwide, and it has been used for a variety of sites not necessarily related to that location; it can also be seen as standin ...

, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines * VC dimension (Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension), a measure of the capacity of a statistical classification algorithm * Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, a computational learning theory * Version control in software development * VideoCore, a processor architecture * Videoconferencing * Virtual circuit, a telecommunications arrangement * Virtual console, a combination of a computer display and keyboard * Virtual container, part of the SDH/SONET architecture of multiplexing protocols * Microsoft Visual C++, a software development tool produced by Microsoft * Volkov Commander, a computer program for managing files

Transportation

* Holden Commodore (VC), an automobile introduced by Holden in 1980 * Cruising speed, or V_C, in aircraft design

Sports

* Vancouver Canucks, an NHL Hockey team from Vancouver Canada

Other uses

* Venture capital or venture capitalist, the financing of growing businesses * ''

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'' (''V.C.'', in Latin: "force coacted"), a handwritten signal made on a signed document * Vice-Chancellor, the chief executive of a university * ''The Victoria Cross'', a British silent film directed by Harold M. Shaw * Vietcong, a video game * Viet Cong (or VC), a card game, see

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* Virtual Console, a Nintendo video game download service for the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U game consoles