Vic, vic or VIC may refer to:

People and fictional characters

Vic (name) Vic and Vik are short forms of the given names Victor (name), Victor and Viktor. Notable people and characters with these names include: * Vik Adhopia, Canadian radio reporter * Vic Aldridge (1893–1973), American Major League Baseball pitcher * V ...

, a list of people, fictional characters and mascots with the given name * V.I.C. (rapper) (born 1987), stage name of an American rapper

Places

Vic, Spain Vic (; ) is the capital of the ''Comarques of Catalonia, comarca'' of Osona, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Vic is from Barcelona and from Girona. Geography Vic lies in the middle of the Plain of Vic, equidistant from Barcel ...

, a town and municipality in Barcelona Province *

Victoria (state) Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a States and territories of Australia, state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), ...

, a state in Australia abbreviated Vic *

Mount Vic Mount Vic is a mountain in the Chilcotin Ranges of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located east of the southernmost of the Taseko Lakes and southeast of Taseko Mountain. Adjoining its lower slopes to the northeast is the Dil ...

, a mountain in British Columbia, Canada *

Vič District The Vič District (; Slovene: ''Četrtna skupnost Vič''), or simply Vič, is a district () of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It encompasses the western part of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is named after the former village of Vič. ...

, Ljubljana, Slovenia **

Vič Vič (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 114.) is a former village in the western part of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is pa ...

, a former village, now part of Ljubljana * Vič, Dravograd, a village in northern Slovenia

Government and military

* Vic., abbreviation used when referring to

Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom An act of Parliament in the United Kingdom is primary legislation passed by the UK Parliament in Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London. An act of Parliament can be enforced in all four of the Countries of the United Kingdom, UK constitue ...

, indicating an act during the reign of Victoria, e.g. 23 Vic * Vehicle Identity Check, a former car ownership regulation in the UK * Veteran identification card, issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs *

Vic formation The Vic formation is a formation devised for military aircraft and first used during the First World War. It has three or sometimes more aircraft fly in close formation with the leader at the apex and the rest of the flight ''en echelon'' to t ...

, a fighter formation first used in the First World War * Victualling Inshore Craft, a type of Royal Navy auxiliary vessel during the Second World War

Science and technology

Vicinal (chemistry) In chemistry the descriptor vicinal (from Latin ''vicinus'' = neighbor), abbreviated ''vic'', is a descriptor that identifies two functional groups as bonded to two adjacent carbon atoms (i.e., in a 1,2-relationship). It may arise from vicinal ...

, a compound geometry in chemistry *

Valve interstitial cells Valve interstitial cells (VIC), cardiac valve interstitial cells, or also known as valvular interstitial cells (VICs), are the most prevalent cells in the heart valve leaflets, which are a type of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and are responsible fo ...

, the cell most prevalent in the heart valve *

Voltage-gated ion channels Voltage-gated ion channels are a class of transmembrane proteins that form ion channels that are activated by changes in a cell's electrical membrane potential near the channel. The membrane potential alters the conformation of the channel prot ...

, proteins that carry charged ions across cell membranes *

Voice interface card A voice interface card or VIC is a hardware interface that simulates a FXS on a router or network switch. This device port is used to interface telephone voice or other audio-based FXS devices. Typically, a VIC contains one or more RJ-11 A ...

, a hardware interface in telecommunications and networking *

MOS Technology VIC The VIC (Video Interface Chip), specifically known as the MOS Technology 6560 ( NTSC version) / 6561 ( PAL version), is the integrated circuit chip responsible for generating video graphics and sound in the VIC-20 home computer from Commodore. ...

, or Video Interface Chip, used in the VIC-20 home computer *

Virtual interface card A converged network adapter (CNA), also called a converged network interface controller (C-NIC), is a computer input/output device that combines the functionality of a host bus adapter (HBA) with a network interface controller (NIC). In other word ...

, a Cisco network adapter *

VMware Infrastructure Client VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware, a subsidiary of Broadcom, for deploying and serving virtual computers. As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on ...

, a software used to connect to VMware virtualization systems

Arts and entertainment

The Vic Theatre The Vic Theatre is a music venue located in Chicago, Illinois. Vic Theatre can easily accommodate 1,400 people or with a seated capacity of 1,000. History Vic Theatre, designed by architect John Eberson, opened in 1912 as the Victoria Theatre. ...

, a music venue in Chicago, Illinois opened in 1912 *

Vegas Vic Vegas Vic is a neon sign portraying a cowboy which was erected on the exterior of Pioneer Club Las Vegas, The Pioneer Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America, USA in 1951. The sign was a departure in graphic design from typeface based ...

, an unofficial name for a Las Vegas neon sign erected in 1951 * ''Vic'' (film), a 2006 short film directed by Sage Stallone *

Villagers of Ioannina City Villagers of Ioannina City (VIC) is a folk rock band from Ioannina, Greece, formed in 2007. They play post-rock, post, stoner rock, stoner and psychedelic rock with a large dose of Greek folk music from the region of Epirus. The regional musical ...

, a Greek folk rock band formed in 2007 * ''VIC'' (TV series), a 2018 Chinese drama

Other uses

* VIC, ISO 639-3 code for

Virgin Islands Creole Virgin Islands Creole, or Virgin Islands Creole English, is an English-based creole consisting of several varieties spoken in the Virgin Islands and the nearby SSS islands of Saba, Saint Martin and Sint Eustatius, where it is known as Saban E ...

, an English-based creole language * VIC, National Rail code of

London Victoria station Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail. Named after the nearby Victoria Street, the mai ...

Visitor information center A visitor center or centre (see American and British English spelling differences), visitor information center or tourist information centre is a physical location that provides information to tourists. Types A visitor center may be a Civic ce ...

, a place that provides information to tourists or other visitors *

Visitor interpretive center An interpretation centre, interpretive centre, or visitor interpretive centre is an institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage. Interpretation centres are a kind of new-style museum, often associated with visitor c ...

, an institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage *

Vadodara Innovation Council Vadodara Innovation Council (VIC) is the first city-based Innovation Council in India, associated with the National Innovation Council. Vadodara Innovation Council started functioning in May-2011 under the leadership of technocrat Dr. Madhu Me ...

, a non-profit associated with National Innovation Council of India *

Vienna International Centre The Vienna International Centre (VIC) is the campus and building complex hosting the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV; in ). It is colloquially also known as UNO City. Overview The VIC, designed by Austrian architect Johann Staber, was bu ...

, the campus and building complex hosting the United Nations Office at Vienna *

Virginia Intermont College Virginia Intermont College (VI) was a private college in Bristol, Virginia founded in 1884 to create additional educational opportunities for women. The college became coeducational in 1972. It experienced significant financial difficulties duri ...

, a small private Baptist liberal arts college in Bristol, Virginia *

VIC cipher The VIC cipher was a pencil and paper cipher used by the Soviet Union, Soviet spy Reino Häyhänen, codenamed "VICTOR". If the cipher were to be given a modern technical name, it would be known as a "straddling bipartite monoalphabetic substitut ...

, a cipher used by Soviet spy Reino Häyhänen *

UE Vic Unió Esportiva Vic, is a Spanish football team based in Vic, in Catalonia. Founded in 1922, it plays in , holding home games at ''Estadi Hipòlit Planàs'', with a capacity of 4,000 spectators. History Unió Esportiva Vic was founded in 1943, b ...