WC or wc may refer to: * Water closet or flush toilet

Arts and entertainment

* ''W.C.'' (film), an Irish feature film *

WC (band) WC is a Polish punk rock band playing since 1981. History WC debuted in 1981 on Rock Youth Meeting in Miastko Miastko ( csb, Miastkò; formerly german: Rummelsburg in Pommern), is a town in the Middle Pomerania region of northwestern Pol ...

, a Polish punk rock band *

WC (rapper) William LaShawn Calhoun Jr. (born February 3, 1970), better known by his stage name WC (pronounced "dub-c"), is an American rapper and actor. He originally was a rapper in the group Low Profile and later formed his group WC and the Maad Circl ...

, a rapper from Los Angeles, California * Westside Connection, former hip-hop supergroup from Los Angeles, California

Businesses and brands

* Dodge WC series, a range of light military trucks produced by Dodge during World War II *

Allis-Chalmers Model WC The Model WC was a tractor made by Allis-Chalmers from 1933 to 1948. The WC was designed from its start as a nimble, low-cost, but well-powered row-crop tractor that would make the best use of pneumatic rubber tires, which Allis-Chalmers had j ...

, a row crop tractor *

Avianca Honduras Isleña de Inversiones S.A. de C.V. branded Avianca Honduras was an regional airline based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It offered mostly scheduled and chartered passenger flights out of its hub at Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport. ...

(IATA code since 1985), an airline based in La Ceiba, Honduras * Wien Air Alaska (IATA code until 1984), a defunct airline * Weather Central, a provider of broadcast and interactive web weather solutions * Wilson Combat, an American firearms manufacturer * Wisconsin Central (disambiguation), various railroads *

Wheatland County, Alberta Wheatland County is a municipal district in south-central Alberta, Canada that is east of Calgary. Located in Census Division No. 5, its municipal office is located east of the Town of Strathmore on Highway 1. History On January 1, 195 ...

a municipality in south-central Alberta, Canada

Economics and finance

Workers' compensation Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her emp ...

, a form of insurance for work-related illness and injury *

Working capital Working capital (WC) is a financial metric which represents operating liquidity available to a business, organisation, or other entity, including governmental entities. Along with fixed assets such as plant and equipment, working capital is consi ...

, a financial metric *

Working class The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in manual-labour occupations or industrial work, who are remunerated via waged or salaried contracts. Working-class occupations (see also " Designation of workers by collar colou ...

* World-Check, financial institution risk mitigation database

Science and technology

Computing

wc (Unix) (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. The program reads either standard input or a list of computer files and generates one or more of the following statistics: newline count, word coun ...

, a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file *

Web Components Web Components are a set of features that provide a standard component model for the Web allowing for encapsulation and interoperability of individual HTML elements. Primary technologies used to create them include: * Custom Elements: APIs to ...

, a set of features that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications *

Write combining Write combining (WC) is a computer bus technique for allowing data to be combined and temporarily stored in a buffer the write combine buffer (WCB) to be released together later in burst mode instead of writing (immediately) as single bits or sma ...

, a computing performance method of combining multiple memory writes before sending them

Other uses in science and technology

* Wall cloud, compounded area of a thunderstorm at the updraft-downdraft interchange where tornadoes may form *

Water cooler A water dispenser, known as water cooler (if used for cooling only), is a machine that dispenses and often also cools or heats up water with a refrigeration unit. It is commonly located near the restroom due to closer access to plumbing. A dra ...

, a device that cools and dispenses water * WC, the chemical formula for

tungsten carbide Tungsten carbide (chemical formula: WC) is a chemical compound (specifically, a carbide) containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms. In its most basic form, tungsten carbide is a fine gray powder, but it can be pressed and formed into ...

, a metallic compound with a high boiling point * WC or wc, a short form for

inches water column Inches of water is a non- SI unit for pressure. It is also given as inches of water gauge (iwg or in.w.g.), inches water column (inch wc, in. WC, " wc, etc. or just wc or WC), inAq, Aq, or inHO. The units are conventionally used for measurement ...

, a unit of measure of pressure often used in HVAC contexts *

Weil–Châtelet group In arithmetic geometry, the Weil–Châtelet group or WC-group of an algebraic group such as an abelian variety ''A'' defined over a field ''K'' is the abelian group of principal homogeneous spaces for ''A'', defined over ''K''. named it for who ...

, in mathematics

Sport

Wild card (sports) A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that fails to qualify in the normal way; for example, by having a high ranking or winnin ...

, a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play * World Cup, a type of global sporting competition

Other uses

WC postcode area The WC (Western Central) postcode area, also known as the London WC postcode area, is a group of postcode districts in central London, England. The area covered is of high density development, and includes parts of the City of Westminster and the ...

, a group of postcode districts in central London, England *

Wellington College (disambiguation) Wellington College may refer to: * Wellington College, Berkshire, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England ** Wellington College International Shanghai ** Wellington College International Tianjin *Wellington College, Wellington, New ...

, one of several academic institutions *

Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all of the Wikimedia projects in ...

, an online collaborative project of the Wikimedia Foundation * Writing Commons, a peer-reviewed open education textbook for college-level writers {{Disambiguation