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IC, Ic, ic, or i.c. may stand for:

Language

  • -ić or -ič, a family name suffix in South Slavic languages
  • i.c., shorthand for in casu, Latin for 'in this case'
  • ic, an Old English pronoun
  • Christogram, combination of letters that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ
  • Independent clause, a grammatical clause

Organizations

Schools

  • Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, US
  • Imperial College London, UK
  • International College, Beirut, Lebanon
  • Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, US

Other organizations

  • Industry Canada, a division of the Canadian government
  • Ingobamakhosi Carbineers, an infantry regiment of the South African Army
  • United States Intelligence Community, a group of government agencies
  • InterContinental, a hotel chain, or its parent company InterContinental Hotels Group
  • Iron Cross (Burmese band)
  • IC, postnominal letters for a member of the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity

Science and technology

Astronomy

  • Index Catalogue, a nebula and other object catalogue used in astronomy
  • Type Ic supernova, a subtype of Type I supernova

Biology and medicine

  • Inferior colliculus, a part of the midbrain
  • Informed consent, in clinical trials, a form that has to be signed by the patient before entering a study
  • Intensive care medicine
  • Intermittent catheterisation, a method of relieving the bladder
  • Interstitial cystitis, a disease
  • Inhibitory Concentration, as in half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50)
  • Inspiratory capacity, a measure of lung volumes
  • Irreducible complexity, a creationist argument

Computing

  • Index of coincidence, in cryptography
  • Integrated circuit, a set of electronic circuits on a semiconductor chip
  • Interactive C, a programming language for robotic controllers
  • Interconnection, physical linking of a telecommunication carrier's network

Economics

  • Indifference curve, in economics
  • Information coefficient, in economics

Physics and chemistry

  • -ic, a suffix in inorganic chemistry
  • IC, or collector current, in bipolar junction transistors
  • Ice Ic, a metastable cubic crystalline variant of ice
  • Ion chromatography
  • Ionization chamber, a type of radiation detector

Vehicles

  • IC Bus, a bus manufacturer
  • Impuls IC, a German hang glider design
  • International Canoe, a powerful and fast single-handed sailing canoe

Other technologies

  • Interchangeable core, a type of lock cylinder
  • Isolation condenser, a passive cooling system for boiling water nuclear reactors

Transportation

  • Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC)
  • Indian Airlines (IATA airline designator IC)
  • Intercités, classic long-distance passenger day and night train services in France operated by SNCF
  • InterCity, certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe

Other uses

  • IC codes, police shorthand expressions for apparent ethnicity
  • Identity card
  • Incident commander, person responsible for all aspects of an emergency response
  • Internal control, in accounting
  • Intimacy coordinator, staff member on theater, film and television productions
  • Canary Islands (ISO 3166-1 code: IC)

See also

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