VC may refer to:

Military decorations

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously ...

, a military decoration awarded by the United Kingdom and also by certain Commonwealth nations **

Victoria Cross for Australia The Victoria Cross for Australia is the highest award in the Australian honours system, superseding the British Victoria Cross for issue to Australians. The Victoria Cross for Australia is the "decoration for according recognition to persons w ...

Victoria Cross (Canada) The Victoria Cross (VC; french: Croix de Victoria) was created in 1993, perpetuating the lineage of the British Victoria Cross, while serving as the highest award within the Canadian honours system, taking precedence over all other orders, decor ...

Victoria Cross for New Zealand The Victoria Cross for New Zealand (VC) is a military decoration awarded for valour or gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the New Zealand Armed Forces. It may be awarded to a person of any rank in any service and civilians un ...

* Victorious Cross,

Idi Amin Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern w ...

's self-bestowed military decoration

Organisations

Ocean Airlines Ocean Airlines S.p.A. was a cargo airline based in Brescia, Italy. It operated cargo services to Asia. Its main base was Brescia Airport. History The airline was established in September 2003 and started operations in November 2004. It was ow ...

(IATA airline designator 2003-2008), Italian cargo airline *

Voyageur Airways Voyageur Aviation operating as Voyageur Airways Limited is an airline based in North Bay, Ontario, North Bay, Ontario, Canada that commenced operations in 1968. Along with air charters it also repairs and maintains aircraft, and provides an Air ...

(IATA airline designator since 1968), Canadian charter airline *

Visual Communications Visual Communications (also known as VC) –– is a community-based non-profit media arts organization based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1970 by independent filmmakers Robert Nakamura, Alan Ohashi, Eddie Wong, and Duane Kubo, who were st ...

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

Science and technology

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

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, 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 * ''Vi coactus'' (''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 (video game), Vietcong, a video game * Viet Cong (or VC), a card game, see Tiến lên * Virtual Console, a Nintendo video game download service for the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U game consoles