VC

VC may refer to:

Military decorations

• Victoria Cross, a military decoration awarded by the United Kingdom and also by certain Commonwealth nations
  • Victoria Cross for Australia
  • Victoria Cross (Canada)
  • Victoria Cross for New Zealand
• Victorious Cross, Idi Amin's self-bestowed military decoration

Organisations

• Ocean Airlines (IATA airline designator)
• Voyageur Airways (IATA airline designator)
• Visual Communications, an Asian-Pacific-American media arts organization in Los Angeles, US
• Viet Cong (also Victor Charlie or Vietnamese Communists), a political and military organization from the Vietnam War (1959–1975)

Education

• Vanier College, Canada
• Vassar College, US
• Velez College, Philippines
• Virginia College, US

Places

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (ISO country code), a state in the Caribbean
• Sri Lanka (ICAO airport prefix code)
• Watsonian vice-counties, subdivisions of Great Britain or Ireland

Science and technology

• Vomiting center (area postrema), a structure in the brain
• Vital capacity, a maximum amount of air a person can expel from the lungs after a maximum inhalation

Chemistry

• Vanadium carbide, an inorganic compound
• Vinyl chloride, a chemical used in the production of PVC
• Victorium, a mixture of the elements gadolinium and terbium

Computing and telecommunications

• .vc, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• VC dimension (Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension), a measure of the capacity of a statistical classification algorithm
• Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, a computational learning theory
• Version control in software development
• VideoCore, a processor architecture
• Videoconferencing
• Virtual circuit, a telecommunications arrangement
• Virtual console, a combination of a computer display and keyboard
• Virtual container, part of the SDH/SONET architecture of multiplexing protocols
• Microsoft Visual C++, a software development tool produced by Microsoft
• Volkov Commander, a computer program for managing files

Transportation

• Holden Commodore (VC), an automobile introduced by Holden in 1980
• Cruising speed, or V_C, in aircraft design

Other uses

• Venture capital or venture capitalist, the financing of growing businesses
• Vi coactus (V.C., in Latin: "force coacted"), a handwritten signal made on a signed document
• Vice-Chancellor, the chief executive of a university
• The Victoria Cross, a British silent film directed by Harold M. Shaw
• Vietcong, a video game
• Virtual Console, a Nintendo video game download service for the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U game consoles

See also

• Vitrified clay pipe (VCP), clay and shale pipe
• VSee, a video chat and screen-sharing software tool