VC
Encyclopedia
VC may refer to:
- Vehicle codeTraffic codeTraffic code refers to the collection of local statutes, regulations, ordinances and rules that have been officially adopted in the United States to govern the orderly operation and interaction of motor vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians and others upon the public ways.The traffic code generally...
, a motor vehicle traffic legal system - Vanadium carbideVanadium carbideVanadium carbide, VC, is an extremely hard refractory ceramic material. It is commercially used in tool bits cutting tools. It has the appearance of gray metallic powder with cubic crystal structure....
, an inorganic compound - Vancouver CanucksVancouver CanucksThe Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...
, a NHL hockey team - Vanier CollegeVanier CollegeVanier College is an English-language public college located in the Montreal borough of Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1970 as the second English-language public college of Quebec's public college system...
- Vassar CollegeVassar CollegeVassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
- Venture capitalVenture capitalVenture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
(or venture capitalist), the financing of growing businesses - Vice-Chancellor, the chief executive of a university
- Victoria CrossVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
, the highest British and Commonwealth award for valour in the face of the enemy - Vice chairman, the second chairman of a board or committee
- Vigilance committeeVigilance committeeA vigilance committee was a group formed of private citizens to administer law and order where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate. The term is commonly associated with the frontier areas of the American West in the mid-19th century, where groups attacked cattle rustlers and...
- Vince CarterVince CarterVincent Lamar "Vince" Carter is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns. He is a shooting guard who can also play small forward....
, a National Basketball Association player with the Phoenix Suns - Vinyl chlorideVinyl chlorideVinyl chloride is the organochloride with the formula H2C:CHCl. It is also called vinyl chloride monomer, VCM or chloroethene. This colorless compound is an important industrial chemical chiefly used to produce the polymer polyvinyl chloride . At ambient pressure and temperature, vinyl chloride...
, a chemical used in the production of PVC - Violoncello (usually abbreviated to cello), a bowed stringed instrument
- Virginia CollegeVirginia CollegeVirginia College is a non Regionally Accredited chain of private for-profit post-secondary institutions located primarily in the Southeastern United States. It is a Proprietary college which, in comparison to traditional colleges or universities, offers classes related to specific professions...
- Virtual ConsoleVirtual consoleA virtual console – also known as a virtual terminal – is a conceptual combination of the keyboard and display for a computer user interface. It is a feature of some operating systems such as UnixWare, Linux, and BSD, in which the system console of the computer can be used to switch between...
, a Nintendo video game download service for the Wii game console - Visual ComposerVisual ComposerSAP NetWeaver Visual Composer is SAP’s graphical software modelling tool. This web-based application enables business process experts and developers to quickly create business application components, without coding....
, a modeling tool - Visual cryptographyVisual cryptographyVisual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information to be encrypted in such a way that the decryption can be performed by the human visual system, without the aid of computers....
- Vitamin CVitamin CVitamin C or L-ascorbic acid or L-ascorbate is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species. In living organisms ascorbate acts as an antioxidant by protecting the body against oxidative stress...
, an essential nutrient - Voluntary controlled schoolVoluntary controlled schoolA voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in which a foundation or trust has some formal influence in the running of the school...
- Versus Christus, a reference to the AntichristAntichristThe term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to a leader who fulfills Biblical prophecies concerning an adversary of Christ, while resembling him in a deceptive manner...
- Vice CityVice CityVice City is a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto series, based on Miami, Florida. Two versions of the city have appeared in different generations of the series: The Grand Theft Auto rendition is geographically very similar to Miami...
, a fictional location in the Grand Theft AutoGrand Theft Auto (series)Grand Theft Auto is a multi-award-winning British video game series created in the United Kingdom by Dave Jones, then later by brothers Dan Houser and Sam Houser, and game designer Zachary Clarke. It is primarily developed by Edinburgh based Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games...
series
Medicine
- vital capacityVital capacityVital capacity is the maximum amount of air a person can expel from the lungs after a maximum inspiration. It is equal to the inspiratory reserve volume plus the tidal volume plus the expiratory reserve volume....
, the maximum volume of air that a person can exhale after maximum inhalation
History
- Vi coactusVi coactusVi coactus is a Latin term, abbreviated as V.C., and means: 'under constraint'. It is used to indicate an agreement made under duress.An example of its usage is that of the Dutch 17th century statesman Cornelius de Witt, who was forced to sign the act for restoration of Stadholderate. After all the...
(in LatinLatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
: "force coacted"), a handwritten signal made on a signed document indicating that the statements made result from the application of torture or coercion, and thus may lack validity - Viet Cong, an armed, communist guerrilla group during the Vietnam WarVietnam WarThe Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
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Computing and telecommunications
- Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, a computational learning theory
- VC dimensionVC dimensionIn statistical learning theory, or sometimes computational learning theory, the VC dimension is a measure of the capacity of a statistical classification algorithm, defined as the cardinality of the largest set of points that the algorithm can shatter...
, a measure of the capacity of a statistical classification algorithm - version control — notably within the Emacs editor environment
- Video cardVideo cardA video card, Graphics Card, or Graphics adapter is an expansion card which generates output images to a display. Most video cards offer various functions such as accelerated rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors...
- video conferencing
- Virtual circuitVirtual circuitIn telecommunications and computer networks, a virtual circuit , synonymous with virtual connection and virtual channel, is a connection oriented communication service that is delivered by means of packet mode communication...
, a telecommunications arrangement - Virtual console (computer user-interface), a combination of a computer display and keyboard
- Virtual container, part of the SDH/SONET architecture of multiplexing protocols
- Visual C++Visual C++Microsoft Visual C++ is a commercial , integrated development environment product from Microsoft for the C, C++, and C++/CLI programming languages...
, an integrated development environment product engineered by Microsoft for the C and C++ programming languages - Volkov CommanderVolkov CommanderVolkov Commander is an orthodox file manager for DOS, in the close tradition of Norton Commander. The Volkov Commander was completely written in assembly language, and is thus very small and fast....
, a computer program for managing files
Entertainment
- Vanessa CarltonVanessa CarltonVanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York bars and clubs while attending university. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter...
, an American pop singer - Vice CityVice CityVice City is a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto series, based on Miami, Florida. Two versions of the city have appeared in different generations of the series: The Grand Theft Auto rendition is geographically very similar to Miami...
, a fictional city in the computer-game series Grand Theft Auto - Tien LenTien lenTien len , also known as Vietnamese cards, Thirteen, American Killer, or Up the Ass, or Jamal Patel in India, is a Vietnamese shedding-type card game devised in Southern China and Vietnam...
, aka Vietnamese Cards or VC, a traditional card-game originating in Vietnam - Violoncello, under the musical score abbreviation
- Visual Communications (VC)Visual Communications (VC)Visual Communications – also known as VC – is a community-based non-profit media arts organization in Los Angeles, dedicated to creating, preserving and presenting Asian Pacific American history and culture through the media arts...
, a non-profit Asian-Pacific-American media arts organization in Los Angeles - Voyage Century, an MMORPG pirate game based on sailing in the trade-winds era
- Valkyria ChroniclesValkyria Chroniclesis a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3. The game was released in 2008.The game is set in Europa, loosely based on Europe in 1935...
, a Japanese franchise consisting of the PlayStation 3/PSP games, two manga series and an anime TV show.
Geography
- the ISO country-code for Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....
, a state in the Caribbean- .vc.vc.vc is the Internet country code top-level domain for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Registration is open worldwide, and it has been used for a variety of sites not necessarily related to that location; it can also be seen as standing for "Venture Capital", "Ventura County", "Viet Cong",...
, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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- Vatican CityVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
, a sovereign city-state within Rome, Italy - Watsonian vice-countiesWatsonian vice-countiesVice-counties or biological vice-counties are geographical divisions of the British Isles used for the purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering...
, subdivisions of Great Britain or Ireland
Transport
- Holden VC Commodore, an automobile introduced by Holden in 1980
- Ocean AirlinesOcean AirlinesOcean 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 :...
, IATA airline designator - VC speed, cruising speed in aircraft design
- Vehicular cyclingVehicular cyclingVehicular cycling is the practice of riding bicycles on roads in a manner that is visible, predictable, and in accordance with the principles for driving in traffic.The phrase vehicular cycling was coined by John Forester in the 1970s to characterize the...
, driving a bicycle on public roads - Virginia Central RailroadVirginia Central RailroadVirginia Central Railroad was chartered as the Louisa Railroad in 1836 by the Virginia Board of Public Works and had its name changed to Virginia Central Railroad in 1850. It connected Richmond with the Orange and Alexandria Railroad at Gordonsville in 1854, and had expanded westward past the Blue...
, a U.S. railroad - Voyageur AirwaysVoyageur AirwaysVoyageur Airways is an airline based in North Bay, Ontario, Canada that commenced operations in 1968. Along with air charters they also repair and maintain aircraft and an air ambulance service. They also provide ground handling, fuel services and terminal services at the North Bay/Jack Garland...
, IATA airline designator