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WC may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • W.C. (film), an Irish feature film
  • WC (band), a Polish punk rock band
  • WC (rapper), a rapper from Los Angeles, California
  • Westside Connection, former hip-hop supergroup from Los Angeles, California

Businesses and brands

  • Dodge WC series, a range of light military trucks produced by Dodge during World War II
  • Allis-Chalmers Model WC, a row crop tractor
  • Avianca Honduras (IATA code since 1985), an airline based in La Ceiba, Honduras
  • Wien Air Alaska (IATA code until 1984), a defunct airline
  • Weather Central, a provider of broadcast and interactive web weather solutions
  • Wilson Combat, an American firearms manufacturer
  • Wisconsin Central (disambiguation), various railroads
  • Wheatland County, Alberta a municipality in south-central Alberta, Canada

Economics and finance

Science and technology

Computing

  • wc (Unix), a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file
  • Write combining, a computing performance method of combining multiple memory writes before sending them
  • Web Components, a set of features that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications

Other uses in science and technology

  • Tungsten carbide (formula WC), a metallic compound with a high-boiling-point
  • Wall cloud, compounded area of a thunderstorm at the updraft-downdraft interchange where tornadoes may form
  • Water cooler, a device that cools and dispenses water
  • Weil–Châtelet group, in mathematics

Sport

  • Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play
  • World Cup, a type of global sporting competition

Other uses

  • WC postcode area, a group of postcode districts in central London, England
  • Wellington College (disambiguation), one of several academic institutions
  • Wikimedia Commons, an online collaborative project of the Wikimedia Foundation
  • Worldwide caliphate, a visionary far-reaching Islamic government with sharia law
  • Writing Commons, a peer-reviewed open education textbook for college-level writers
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