WPC may refer to:
Events
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Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
Microsoft Inspire (formerly the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, and previously abbreviated WPC) is a conference held annually by Microsoft Corporation for its partner community. At Inspire, partners are taught about Microsoft's roadmap fo ...
, an annual conference held by the Microsoft Corporation
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World Puzzle Championship The World Puzzle Championship (commonly abbreviated as WPC) is an annual international puzzle competition run by the World Puzzle Federation. All the puzzles in the competition are pure-logic problems based on simple principles, designed to be play ...
, an annual international puzzle competition
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World Policy Conference, an annual conference on global governance
Governmental organizations
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Weather Prediction Center
The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), located in College Park, Maryland, is one of nine service centers under the umbrella of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), a part of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is ...
, part of the U.S. National Weather Service
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Western Power Corporation
Western Power Corporation (WPC), owned by the Government of Western Australia, was Western Australia's major electricity supplier from 1995 until 2006.
It was formed in 1995 when the monopoly electricity and gas supplier, the State Energy Co ...
, owned by the Government of Western Australia, the major electricity supplier from 1995 through 2006
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Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing
The Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) is a Wing of Department of Telecommunications coming under the Ministry of Communications of the Government of India. The department is responsible for issuing amateur radio licenses, allotting the ...
, an Indian government branch
Other organizations
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West Penn Conference
The West Penn Conference (WPC) was an intercollegiate athletic conference that operated from 1958 to 1969. Its members were located in Western Pennsylvania and included the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon Universit ...
, intercollegiate athletic conference that operated from 1958 to 1969 in Western Pennsylvania
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Westminster Presbyterian Church (disambiguation)
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Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) is a private nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1932 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. WPC has contributed land to 12 state parks and conserved more than a quarter million acres o ...
, a charity based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Wildlife Preservation Canada, a wildlife conservation organization
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Wireless Power & Communication, a privately held company based in Norway
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Wireless Power Consortium, the business alliance that developed the Qi inductive power standard
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Women's Political Council The Women's Political Council (WPC), founded in Montgomery, Alabama, was an organization that formed in 1946 that was an early force active in the civil rights movement that was formed to address the racial issues in the city. Members included Mary ...
, an Alabama-based organization that was part of the Civil Rights Movement
* Women's Press Collective, an all-woman publisher between 1969 and 1978 founded by
Judy Grahn
Judy Grahn (born July 28, 1940) is an American poet and author.
Inspired by her experiences of disenfranchisement as a butch lesbian, she became a feminist poet, highly-regarded in underground circles before achieving public fame. A major influe ...
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Workingmen's Party of California
The Workingmen's Party of California (WPC) was an American labor organization, founded in 1877 and led by Denis Kearney, J.G Day, and H. L. Knight.
Organizational history
As a result of heavy unemployment from the 1873-78 national depression, ...
, an American labor organization
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World Parkinson Congress
The World Parkinson Congress, often referred to as the WPC, is a non-religious, non-political, and non-profit making organization concerned with the health and welfare of people living with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their families and caregivers ...
, a support organization people with Parkinson's Disease
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World Peace Council
The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization with the self-described goals of advocating for universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass ...
, an anti-war organization based in Athens, Greece
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World Plumbing Council
The World Plumbing Council (WPC) is an international organization of plumbing associations and plumbing industry participants . There are currently over 200 WPC members from more than 30 countries around the world.
World Plumbing Day is an intern ...
, an international organization concerned with plumbing standards
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World Policy Council, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., United States
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World Powerlifting Congress
The World Powerlifting Congress (WPC) is a powerlifting federation hosting meets around the world. The federation hosts competitions which allow multi-ply equipment, but hosted a Raw world championship for the first time in 2009.
The WPC was esta ...
, an international sports federation
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World Press Cartoon, a cartoonist organization
Other uses
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Whey concentrate, or whey protein concentrate
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Williams Pinball Controller
The Williams Pinball Controller (WPC) is an arcade system board platform used for several pinball games designed by Williams and Midway (under the '' Bally'' name) between 1990 and early 1999. It is the successor to their earlier System 11 hard ...
, a set of circuit boards used in pinball machines throughout the 1990s
* Woman police constable, a former rank in the British police and other commonwealth countries, see
History of the Metropolitan Police Service
The history of the Metropolitan Police in London is long and complex, with many different events taking place between its inception in 1829 to the present day.
Pre-1829 London policing
Before the passing of the Metropolitan Police Act 1829, la ...
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Wood-plastic composite
Wood-plastic composites (WPCs)
are composite materials made of wood fiber/ wood flour and thermoplastic(s) such as polythene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or polylactic acid (PLA).
In addition to wood fiber and plastic, ...
, composite materials made of wood fiber and thermoplastics
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WPC 56
''WPC 56'' is a British television police procedural series, created and partly written by Dominique Moloney and broadcast on BBC One. The stories feature the first woman police constables (WPC) to join the fictional Midlands Constabulary at Br ...
'', a British television drama series
* A code given to numerous
United States Coast Guard cutters
The United States Coast Guard Cutters were a senior amateur ice hockey team operated by the United States Coast Guard Yard on Curtis Bay, Baltimore. The team played in the Eastern Amateur Hockey League for parts of two seasons, using Carlin's I ...
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Billy Corgan, an American musician and songwriter
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William Prideaux Courtney
William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913) was a British biographer and civil servant. Writing as W. P. C., he was a contributor to the first edition of the '' Dictionary of National Biography''. He was the brother of Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Cour ...
, biographer who contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography as "W. P. C."
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Wireless-powered communication
See also
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WPCS (disambiguation)
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