VC

VC may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• The Victoria Cross (1914 film), a British silent film directed by Harold M. Shaw
• Visual Communications (non-profit organization), an Asian-Pacific-American media arts organization in Los Angeles
• Virtual Console, a Nintendo video game download service for the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U game consoles

In business

• Venture capital (or venture capitalist), the financing of growing businesses
• Ocean Airlines, IATA airline designator
• Voyageur Airways, IATA airline designator

In education

• Vanier College
• Vassar College
• Vice-Chancellor, the chief executive of a university
• Virginia College

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

Places

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

In science and technology

In 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

In computing and telecommunications

• Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, a computational learning theory
• VC dimension (Vapnik–Chervonenkis dimension), a measure of the capacity of a statistical classification algorithm
• Version control in software development
• Virtual circuit, 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
• Volkov Commander, a computer program for managing files
• VideoCore, a processor architecture
• Videoconferencing

Other uses in science and technology

• Vitrified clay, a blend of clay and shale that has been subjected to high temperature, used to make pipes
• Vomiting center (area postrema), a structure in the brain
• Cruising speed, or V_C, in aircraft design
• Holden VC Commodore, an automobile introduced by Holden in 1980

Other uses

• Vi coactus (in Latin: "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 (also Victor Charlie or Vietnamese Communists), a political and military organization from the Vietnam War (1959–1975)