BC

Overview

BC or B.C. may refer to:

Before Christ, from the Latin Ante Christum, an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus
Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth —also known as Jesus Christ or occasionally Jesus the Christ—is the central figure of Christianity. Within most Christian denominations...

.

Baja California
Baja California
Baja California is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of , or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north...

, Mexico's northernmost state
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd is a village in Lower Merion Township which is located on the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia. It was originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but is commonly treated as a single community. This came about when a single US Post...

, United States
Basque Country, Land of the Basque people
Benin City
Benin City
Benin City, a city and capital of Edo State, southern Nigeria, is a city approximately twenty-five miles North of the Benin River. It is situated 200 miles by road east of Lagos...

, Edo State, southern Nigeria
Botswana
Botswana
The Republic of Botswana is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

, World Meteorological Organization country code 'BC'
British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada...

, Canada's westernmost province
"Bull City", a nickname for Durham, North Carolina

Bakersfield College
Bakersfield College
Bakersfield College is a public community college located in Bakersfield, California, USA. Its main campus is located on a plot in northeast Bakersfield, and it also operates two satellite campuses: the Weill Institute in downtown Bakersfield, and at the Delano Center in Delano, California,...

, a college located in Bakersfield, California
Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1902...

, a women's liberal arts college, affiliated with Columbia University, in New York, New York
Beloit College
Beloit College
Beloit College is a private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and has an enrollment of roughly 1,300 undergraduate students...

, a small liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin
Benedictine College
Benedictine College
Benedictine College is a small co-educational university in Atchison, Kansas, founded on July 1, 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College for men and Mount St. Scholastica College for women...

, an institution of higher education in Atchison, Kansas
Benedictine Military School
Benedictine Military School
Benedictine Military School is a Benedictine, military, all-male high school located in Savannah, Georgia, United States...

, formerly Benedictine College, Savannah, Georgia
Blinn College
Blinn College
Blinn College is a two-year academic institution based in Brenham, Texas with campuses in Brenham, Bryan, Schulenburg, and Sealy. While the Brenham campus is Blinn's main campus, more than 70% of students attend the Bryan campus....

, a junior college in Brenham, Texas
Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Its name reflects its early history as a liberal arts college and preparatory school in Boston's South End. It is a member of the 568 Group and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Brazosport College
Brazosport College
Brazosport College, or BC, is a public, coeducational college located in Lake Jackson, Texas. The college was opened in 1968, and offers two-year and four-year degrees...

, a college located in Lake Jackson, Texas
Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School
Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School
Brethren Christian is a private school located on a site leased from the Huntington Beach School District, formerly the site of Gisler Middle School. The school's 400 junior and senior high students live within a radius of the school, commute from over 40 communities, and represent over 150...

, a Christian High School in Huntington Beach, California
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater College, is a private, coeducational, four-year liberal-arts college historically affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. The college is located in Bridgewater, Virginia, a town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States...

, a college located in Bridgewater, Virginia
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New York...

, a college located in Brooklyn, New York
Broward College, a college located in Broward County, Florida
John S. Burke Catholic High School
John S. Burke Catholic High School
John S. Burke Catholic High School, referred to locally as Burke or Burke Catholic, is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Goshen, New York. It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. It is the only Catholic high school located in Orange County. The school's colors are...

("Burke Catholic"), Goshen, Orange County, New York

Bureau of Corrections (Philippines)
Bureau of Corrections (Philippines)
The Bureau of Corrections is an agency of the Department of Justice which is charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders, who have been sentenced to three years of imprisonment or more.-Organization:It is headed by Director Oscar C...

, an agency of the Department of Justice of the Philippines, charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders

Bella Center
Bella Center
Bella Center is Scandinavia's largest exhibition and conference center, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Located in Ørestad between the city centre and Copenhagen Airport, it offers an indoor area of 121.800 m² and has a capacity of 20,000 peopleAmong the larger annual events are the Copenhagen...

, Scandinavia's largest exhibition and conference center
Convention center
A convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that is designed to hold a convention. In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as exhibition centres while the term "convention centre" is sometimes used for intermediate...

, located in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ; ) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179...

, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...

.
Blue Cross, a trade association of United States health insurance companies
Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. It is composed of the assets sold off when the publicly-traded Boise Cascade Corporation renamed itself OfficeMax Inc...

, a manufacturer of paper and pulp products
Brasseries du Cameroun
Brasseries du Cameroun
Les Sociétés Anonymes des Brasseries du Cameroun is a brewing company in Cameroon. Their offices and main factory are in Douala, with other breweries in Bafoussam, Douala, Garoua, and Yaoundé. Les Brasseries et Glaceries d'Indochine owns a 75% share in the company, and Heineken owns 8.8%...

, a brewery in Cameroon
British Council
British Council
The British Council is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation based in the United Kingdom which specialises in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is a non-departmental public body, a public corporation incorporated by royal charter, and is registered as a charity in...

, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
Brooklyn Cyclones
Brooklyn Cyclones
The Brooklyn Cyclones are a minor league baseball team in the Short-Season A classification New York - Penn League, affiliated with the New York Mets. The Cyclones play at KeySpan Park just off the Coney Island boardwalk. In its entire franchise history, the team has won seven division titles...

, a minor league professional baseball club
Brunswick Corporation
Brunswick Corporation
The Brunswick Corporation , formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is a United States-based corporation that has been involved in manufacturing a wide variety of products since 1845. Brunswick's global headquarters is in the Northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois...

, stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange
Skymark Airlines
Skymark Airlines
is an airline headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. It operates scheduled passenger services on Japan's regional routes and international charter flights to Seoul. Its main base is Tokyo International Airport ....

, IATA airline code
Barre and Chelsea Railroad

Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
BC Recordings, a record label
Body Count
Body Count
Body Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1990. The group was founded by Ice-T, best known for his contributions to the hip hop genre. Ice-T founded the group out of his interest in heavy metal, and took on the role of vocalist for the group, writing the lyrics...

, rapper Ice-T's metal band
Bad Company
Bad Company
Bad Company are an English hard rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant, who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success...

, English hard rock supergroup

B.C. (comic strip)
B.C. (comic strip)
B.C. is an American newspaper comic strip created in 1958, written and drawn by Johnny Hart until his death in 2007. Set in prehistoric times, it features a group of cavemen and anthropomorphic animals from various geologic eras. It is among the longest-running strips by its original creator,...

, a syndicated comic strip originated by Johnny Hart, and the name of one of its characters
Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins is a fictional character, one of the feature characters in the ABC soap opera serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971. Originally played by Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, Barnabas Collins is a 175-year-old vampire who is in search of fresh blood and his lost love...

, fictional vampire from the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows
Border Crossings
Border Crossings
Border Crossings is an all-request, music-oriented radio show that airs worldwide on the Voice of America. It is currently hosted by Larry London. Past hosts include Judy Massa and Ray Freeman....

, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen film written and directed by John Hughes. The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes...

, a teenager-oriented dramedy released in the year 1985
Burning Crusade, an expansion to the online role-playing game World of Warcraft
Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando may refer to the following video games:* Bionic Commando , the original arcade game released in 1987* Bionic Commando , the NES installment released in 1988, and a sequel to the original game...

, a series of video games
Breathe Carolina
Breathe Carolina
Breathe Carolina is an Electronica/Screamo band from Denver, Colorado, composed of Kyle Even and David Schmitt. When the band tours, they have live musicians that play with them, one being Joshua Andrew Aragon, who has his own project, The Spin Cycle. The live musicians add synth , keytar and...

, an electronica band from Denver, Colorado.

Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility
In technology, for example in telecommunications and computing, a device or technology is said to be backwards compatible if it allows input generated by older devices...

, compatibility of new product with old product
bc programming language
Bc programming language
bc is "an arbitrary precision calculator language" with syntax similar to the C programming language. It is generally used by typing the command bc on a Unix command prompt and entering a mathematical expression, such as * 2, whereupon 8 will be output.There are currently two main...

, "basic calculator," a cross-platform program
NZR Bc class
NZR Bc class
The B^C class comprised a single steam locomotive that operated on New Zealand's national rail network. Built for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway and classified simply as No...

, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment
Ballistic coefficient
Ballistic coefficient
In ballistics the ballistic coefficient of a body is a measure of its ability to overcome air resistance in flight. It is inversely proportional to the deceleration—a high number indicates a low deceleration. BC is a function of mass, diameter, and drag coefficient...

, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
Base curve radius
Base curve radius
Base curve radius, abbreviated BCR or BC, is a parameter of a contact lens. Typical values are from 8.0 to 10.0 mm. The base curve is the radius of the sphere of the back of the contact lens that the prescription describes...

, a parameter of a contact lens
Boundary condition, a mathematical restraint on partial differential equations
Blind carbon copy
Blind Carbon Copy
In the context of e-mail, blind carbon copy refers to the practice of sending a message to multiple recipients in such a way that conceals individual email addresses from the complete list of recipients....

, (often Bcc) refers to the practice of sending an e-mail message to multiple recipients

Bc, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Brassocattleya
Brassocattleya
Brassocattleya or Brasso-cattleya, abbreviated Bc. in the horticultural trade, is an intergeneric orchid hybrid including the genera Brassavola and Cattleya....
BC Powder
BC Powder
BC Powder is an over-the-counter analgesic pain reliever owned by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals and manufactured in Memphis, TN. It was conceived at the Five Points Drug Company in Durham, NC, in 1906, by Germain Bernard and C.T. Council, who took the initials of their last names to create the...

, brand name of pain reliever
Birth control
Birth control
Birth control is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, sexual practices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth...
Black carbon
Black carbon
Black carbon or BC is formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel, and biomass, and is emitted in both anthropogenic and naturally occurring soot. Black carbon warms the planet by absorbing heat in the atmosphere and by reducing albedo, the ability to reflect sunlight, when...

, a carbonaceous component of soot
Breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast, usually in the inner lining of the milk ducts or lobules. There are different types of breast cancer, with different stages , aggressiveness, and genetic makeup. With best treatment, 10-year disease-free survival varies from 98% to 10%...
Board Certification
Board certification
Board Certification is the process by which a physician with either a MD, MBChB, MBBS, osteopathic or dentist , [] [] degree in the United States, documents by written, practical and/or simulator based testing a mastery of the basic knowledge and skills that define an area of medical specialization...

, as in Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified (APRN, BC)

Background Check
Background check
A background check or background investigation is the process of looking up and compiling criminal records, commercial records and financial records of an individual....
Battle Command
Battle command
Battle command is the art and science of visualizing, describing, directing, and leading forces in operations against a hostile, thinking, and adaptive enemy. Battle command applies leadership to translate decision into actions, by synchronizing forces and warfighting functions in time, space, and...
Breath control
Breath control
The term breath control may mean:* Pranayama, a yogic technique for controlling breathing* A vocal technique used in singing* Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box...
Basketball Club, in Romanian.

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BC or B.C. may refer to:

Before Christ, from the Latin Ante Christum, an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus
Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth —also known as Jesus Christ or occasionally Jesus the Christ—is the central figure of Christianity. Within most Christian denominations...

.

Places

Baja California
Baja California
Baja California is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California. It has an area of , or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, north...

, Mexico's northernmost state
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Bala Cynwyd is a village in Lower Merion Township which is located on the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western edge of Philadelphia. It was originally two separate towns, Bala and Cynwyd, but is commonly treated as a single community. This came about when a single US Post...

, United States
Basque Country, Land of the Basque people
Benin City
Benin City
Benin City, a city and capital of Edo State, southern Nigeria, is a city approximately twenty-five miles North of the Benin River. It is situated 200 miles by road east of Lagos...

, Edo State, southern Nigeria
Botswana
Botswana
The Republic of Botswana is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

, World Meteorological Organization country code 'BC'
British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada...

, Canada's westernmost province
"Bull City", a nickname for Durham, North Carolina

Educational institutions

Bakersfield College
Bakersfield College
Bakersfield College is a public community college located in Bakersfield, California, USA. Its main campus is located on a plot in northeast Bakersfield, and it also operates two satellite campuses: the Weill Institute in downtown Bakersfield, and at the Delano Center in Delano, California,...

, a college located in Bakersfield, California
Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1902...

, a women's liberal arts college, affiliated with Columbia University, in New York, New York
Beloit College
Beloit College
Beloit College is a private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and has an enrollment of roughly 1,300 undergraduate students...

, a small liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin
Benedictine College
Benedictine College
Benedictine College is a small co-educational university in Atchison, Kansas, founded on July 1, 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College for men and Mount St. Scholastica College for women...

, an institution of higher education in Atchison, Kansas
Benedictine Military School
Benedictine Military School
Benedictine Military School is a Benedictine, military, all-male high school located in Savannah, Georgia, United States...

, formerly Benedictine College, Savannah, Georgia
Blinn College
Blinn College
Blinn College is a two-year academic institution based in Brenham, Texas with campuses in Brenham, Bryan, Schulenburg, and Sealy. While the Brenham campus is Blinn's main campus, more than 70% of students attend the Bryan campus....

, a junior college in Brenham, Texas
Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Its name reflects its early history as a liberal arts college and preparatory school in Boston's South End. It is a member of the 568 Group and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Brazosport College
Brazosport College
Brazosport College, or BC, is a public, coeducational college located in Lake Jackson, Texas. The college was opened in 1968, and offers two-year and four-year degrees...

, a college located in Lake Jackson, Texas
Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School
Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School
Brethren Christian is a private school located on a site leased from the Huntington Beach School District, formerly the site of Gisler Middle School. The school's 400 junior and senior high students live within a radius of the school, commute from over 40 communities, and represent over 150...

, a Christian High School in Huntington Beach, California
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater College, is a private, coeducational, four-year liberal-arts college historically affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. The college is located in Bridgewater, Virginia, a town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States...

, a college located in Bridgewater, Virginia
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New York...

, a college located in Brooklyn, New York
Broward College, a college located in Broward County, Florida
John S. Burke Catholic High School
John S. Burke Catholic High School
John S. Burke Catholic High School, referred to locally as Burke or Burke Catholic, is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Goshen, New York. It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. It is the only Catholic high school located in Orange County. The school's colors are...

("Burke Catholic"), Goshen, Orange County, New York

Government institutions

Bureau of Corrections (Philippines)
Bureau of Corrections (Philippines)
The Bureau of Corrections is an agency of the Department of Justice which is charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders, who have been sentenced to three years of imprisonment or more.-Organization:It is headed by Director Oscar C...

, an agency of the Department of Justice of the Philippines, charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders

Businesses and organizations

Bella Center
Bella Center
Bella Center is Scandinavia's largest exhibition and conference center, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Located in Ørestad between the city centre and Copenhagen Airport, it offers an indoor area of 121.800 m² and has a capacity of 20,000 peopleAmong the larger annual events are the Copenhagen...

, Scandinavia's largest exhibition and conference center
Convention center
A convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or conference center, that is designed to hold a convention. In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as exhibition centres while the term "convention centre" is sometimes used for intermediate...

, located in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ; ) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179...

, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...

.
Blue Cross, a trade association of United States health insurance companies
Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. It is composed of the assets sold off when the publicly-traded Boise Cascade Corporation renamed itself OfficeMax Inc...

, a manufacturer of paper and pulp products
Brasseries du Cameroun
Brasseries du Cameroun
Les Sociétés Anonymes des Brasseries du Cameroun is a brewing company in Cameroon. Their offices and main factory are in Douala, with other breweries in Bafoussam, Douala, Garoua, and Yaoundé. Les Brasseries et Glaceries d'Indochine owns a 75% share in the company, and Heineken owns 8.8%...

, a brewery in Cameroon
British Council
British Council
The British Council is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation based in the United Kingdom which specialises in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is a non-departmental public body, a public corporation incorporated by royal charter, and is registered as a charity in...

, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
Brooklyn Cyclones
Brooklyn Cyclones
The Brooklyn Cyclones are a minor league baseball team in the Short-Season A classification New York - Penn League, affiliated with the New York Mets. The Cyclones play at KeySpan Park just off the Coney Island boardwalk. In its entire franchise history, the team has won seven division titles...

, a minor league professional baseball club
Brunswick Corporation
Brunswick Corporation
The Brunswick Corporation , formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is a United States-based corporation that has been involved in manufacturing a wide variety of products since 1845. Brunswick's global headquarters is in the Northern Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois...

, stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange
Skymark Airlines
Skymark Airlines
is an airline headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan. It operates scheduled passenger services on Japan's regional routes and international charter flights to Seoul. Its main base is Tokyo International Airport ....

, IATA airline code
Barre and Chelsea Railroad

Music

Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
BC Recordings, a record label
Body Count
Body Count
Body Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1990. The group was founded by Ice-T, best known for his contributions to the hip hop genre. Ice-T founded the group out of his interest in heavy metal, and took on the role of vocalist for the group, writing the lyrics...

, rapper Ice-T's metal band
Bad Company
Bad Company
Bad Company are an English hard rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant, who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success...

, English hard rock supergroup

Entertainment

B.C. (comic strip)
B.C. (comic strip)
B.C. is an American newspaper comic strip created in 1958, written and drawn by Johnny Hart until his death in 2007. Set in prehistoric times, it features a group of cavemen and anthropomorphic animals from various geologic eras. It is among the longest-running strips by its original creator,...

, a syndicated comic strip originated by Johnny Hart, and the name of one of its characters
Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins
Barnabas Collins is a fictional character, one of the feature characters in the ABC soap opera serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971. Originally played by Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, Barnabas Collins is a 175-year-old vampire who is in search of fresh blood and his lost love...

, fictional vampire from the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows
Border Crossings
Border Crossings
Border Crossings is an all-request, music-oriented radio show that airs worldwide on the Voice of America. It is currently hosted by Larry London. Past hosts include Judy Massa and Ray Freeman....

, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen film written and directed by John Hughes. The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes...

, a teenager-oriented dramedy released in the year 1985
Burning Crusade, an expansion to the online role-playing game World of Warcraft
Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando may refer to the following video games:* Bionic Commando , the original arcade game released in 1987* Bionic Commando , the NES installment released in 1988, and a sequel to the original game...

, a series of video games
Breathe Carolina
Breathe Carolina
Breathe Carolina is an Electronica/Screamo band from Denver, Colorado, composed of Kyle Even and David Schmitt. When the band tours, they have live musicians that play with them, one being Joshua Andrew Aragon, who has his own project, The Spin Cycle. The live musicians add synth , keytar and...

, an electronica band from Denver, Colorado.

Math and technology

Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility
In technology, for example in telecommunications and computing, a device or technology is said to be backwards compatible if it allows input generated by older devices...

, compatibility of new product with old product
bc programming language
Bc programming language
bc is "an arbitrary precision calculator language" with syntax similar to the C programming language. It is generally used by typing the command bc on a Unix command prompt and entering a mathematical expression, such as * 2, whereupon 8 will be output.There are currently two main...

, "basic calculator," a cross-platform program
NZR Bc class
NZR Bc class
The B^C class comprised a single steam locomotive that operated on New Zealand's national rail network. Built for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway and classified simply as No...

, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment
Ballistic coefficient
Ballistic coefficient
In ballistics the ballistic coefficient of a body is a measure of its ability to overcome air resistance in flight. It is inversely proportional to the deceleration—a high number indicates a low deceleration. BC is a function of mass, diameter, and drag coefficient...

, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
Base curve radius
Base curve radius
Base curve radius, abbreviated BCR or BC, is a parameter of a contact lens. Typical values are from 8.0 to 10.0 mm. The base curve is the radius of the sphere of the back of the contact lens that the prescription describes...

, a parameter of a contact lens
Boundary condition, a mathematical restraint on partial differential equations
Blind carbon copy
Blind Carbon Copy
In the context of e-mail, blind carbon copy refers to the practice of sending a message to multiple recipients in such a way that conceals individual email addresses from the complete list of recipients....

, (often Bcc) refers to the practice of sending an e-mail message to multiple recipients

Medicine and science

Bc, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Brassocattleya
Brassocattleya
Brassocattleya or Brasso-cattleya, abbreviated Bc. in the horticultural trade, is an intergeneric orchid hybrid including the genera Brassavola and Cattleya....
BC Powder
BC Powder
BC Powder is an over-the-counter analgesic pain reliever owned by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals and manufactured in Memphis, TN. It was conceived at the Five Points Drug Company in Durham, NC, in 1906, by Germain Bernard and C.T. Council, who took the initials of their last names to create the...

, brand name of pain reliever
Birth control
Birth control
Birth control is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, sexual practices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth...
Black carbon
Black carbon
Black carbon or BC is formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuel, and biomass, and is emitted in both anthropogenic and naturally occurring soot. Black carbon warms the planet by absorbing heat in the atmosphere and by reducing albedo, the ability to reflect sunlight, when...

, a carbonaceous component of soot
Breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast, usually in the inner lining of the milk ducts or lobules. There are different types of breast cancer, with different stages , aggressiveness, and genetic makeup. With best treatment, 10-year disease-free survival varies from 98% to 10%...
Board Certification
Board certification
Board Certification is the process by which a physician with either a MD, MBChB, MBBS, osteopathic or dentist , [] [] degree in the United States, documents by written, practical and/or simulator based testing a mastery of the basic knowledge and skills that define an area of medical specialization...

, as in Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified (APRN, BC)

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Background Check
Background check
A background check or background investigation is the process of looking up and compiling criminal records, commercial records and financial records of an individual....
Battle Command
Battle command
Battle command is the art and science of visualizing, describing, directing, and leading forces in operations against a hostile, thinking, and adaptive enemy. Battle command applies leadership to translate decision into actions, by synchronizing forces and warfighting functions in time, space, and...
Breath control
Breath control
The term breath control may mean:* Pranayama, a yogic technique for controlling breathing* A vocal technique used in singing* Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box...
Basketball Club, in Romanian. For example BC Mures
BC Mures
BC Mureş is a Romanian professional basketball club, based in Târgu Mureş, Romania. The team plays in the Romanian Basketball Division A.-Supporters:...
Bliss bibliographic classification
Bliss bibliographic classification
The Bliss bibliographic classification is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss , published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953. Although originally devised in the United States, it was more commonly adopted by British libraries than by American ones...

, a library cataloguing system
BookCrossing
BookCrossing
BookCrossing is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise." The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which began in order to encourage the practice, aiming to "make the whole world a library."The...

, a website which encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
Base Camp in mountaineering
Short form of Bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

in Middle European countries
member of the Basilian Chouerite Order
Basilian Chouerite Order
The Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist is a religious order of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. The Latin name of this order is Ordo Basilianus Sancti Iohannis Baptistae, the French name is Ordre Basilien Chouerite de St...

(religious order)