AC

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Contents 1 Science 2 Medicine 3 Places 4 Computing 5 Transportation 6 Job Titles / Ranks 7 People 8 Sports 9 Entertainment 9.1 Video games 9.2 Music 10 Organizations 10.1 Schools 11 Miscellaneous

AC may refer to any of the following, broken down by subject area.

[edit] Science

• Actinium (Ac), a chemical element
• Acetaldehyde (also Ac), an organic ion
• Acetate (also Ac), an organic ion
• Acetyl (Ac), a functional group in chemistry
• Alternating current, a type of electric current
  • AC power, a net transfer of energy over a complete cycle of the alternating current waveform
• Anterior commissure, a small bundle of nerve fibres that connect the right and left temporal lobes
• Anticipated convection, the code for severe thunderstorm forecasts issued daily for the contiguous U.S. by the Storm Prediction Center
• Armored Cable, a type of power cable used by electricians
• attocoulomb (aC), an SI unit of electric charge
• Accessory cells, used in cell cultures
• Axiom of choice, a mathematical set theory concept
• Acromioclavicular joint in humans and other animals, frequently injured in sport
• Adenylate cyclase, an enzyme
• Alpha Centauri, a star system in the constellation Centaurus
• Artificial consciousness
• Air Conditioning
• Air Canada, Airline based out of Toronto, Ont., Canada

[edit] Medicine

• ante cibum (before meals)

[edit] Places

• Aachen - a German city, using AC as number plate code
• Acre - a Brazilian state, using AC as abbreviation. (See: ISO 3166-2:BR)
• Atlantic City, New Jersey

[edit] Computing

• AC (complexity), a hierarchy of complexity classes found in circuit complexity
• .ac, Internet top-level domain name for Ascension Island
• .ac (second level), Internet second-level domain used to denote academic institutions in many countries
• Anonymous Coward, in the Slashdot online environment
• Authorization certificate or attribute certificate, a digital permission to use a service or resource
• Arctic Cooling, a Swiss manufacturer of heatsinks, cooling fans and computer cases.
• Auto clickers, which are commonly referred to in MMORPGs as ACs.

[edit] Transportation

• AC Schnitzer, an aftermarket tuner of BMW automobiles
• AC Cars, a brand of automobile
• AC Cobra, an Anglo-American sports car
• Hyundai Aero City, a bus built by the Hyundai Motor Company
• Air Canada, as its IATA airline designator
• Aircraft (usually A/C)
• Algoma Central Railway, a now out-of-service railway in Northern Ontario, Canada
• AC Transit, a public bus transit system in Oakland, California

[edit] Job Titles / Ranks

• Aircraftman
• Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
• Assistant Commandant in Central Police Organisation India
• Assistant Cameraman
• Aelod y Cynulliad, the title for Members of the National Assembly for Wales
• Assistant Commissioner
• Acting Commissioner

[edit] People

• Aaron Carter, American pop singer/rapper
• Aleister Crowley, in "magickal" contexts
• Alice Cooper, hard rock, shock rock, and heavy metal singer
• Anderson Cooper, Journalist
• Alan Cox, Linux kernel developer
• Austin Carr, former NBA player
• A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
• A.C. Green, former NBA player

[edit] Sports

• Associazione Calcio (Italian for "Football (soccer) Association"), an identifier frequently found in the names of football clubs in Italy, most notably:
  • A.C. Milan, one of the most storied clubs in that country
• Athletic Club
• Abbreviation for Athletic club

[edit] Entertainment

• The name of the ultimate computer at the end of time in Isaac Asimov's The Last Question
• After Colony, an alternate timeline in the Gundam metaseries for the universe of Gundam Wing
• Albert Clifford "A.C." Slater, a character in the American sitcom Saved by the Bell
• "Alt Cataclius" or "After Cataclysm", a historical era in the timeline for the Dragonlance fictional universe
• Armor Class, a combat-related parameter in the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game system
• Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, a movie sequel to the game Final Fantasy VII
• Accurentum, a fictional chemical element from Star Trek
• Arthur Curry, who goes by his initials during an appearance on Smallville

[edit] Video games

• Animal Crossing (series), a series of real-time village simulations by Nintendo
• Assassin's Creed, a platformer/stealth game for the Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS platforms.
• Armored Core, a video game series featuring the eponymous robotic fighter under the player's control.
• Asheron's Call, a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing genre
• The Ace Combat series of combat flight simulator games
• "AC" is sometimes used as an abbreviation for "arcade". Therefore, it is often used as a suffix to designate a new or separate version of a game, or even merely as the abbreviation for a revision:
  • Melty Blood: Act Cadenza, a two-dimensional fighting game featuring characters from Tsukihime
  • Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, a two-dimensional fighting game, part of the Guilty Gear series
  • Tekken 5 on the PlayStation 2 features a mode that allows one to play the arcade versions of Tekken, Tekken 2, and Tekken 3, labeled "AC"
• Alliance Character as used by Horde players in the MMORPG World of Warcraft
• Arvoch Conflict, a shareware flight simulator by Star Wraith 3D Games
• Ace Combat, a series of flight/combat games by Namco.

[edit] Music

• AC/DC, a rock group
• Adult contemporary music, a music genre also used to describe broadcast radio stations
• Animal Collective, an experimental musical collective.
• Anal Cunt, a grindcore band.

[edit] Organizations

• Anglican Communion
• Akademikernes Centralorganisation, the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.
• Civic Alliance Foundation, a Romanian NGO.
• Astronomy club, common in schools and tertiary institutions.
• Ad Council
  • Japan Ad Council
• Ayala Corporation, via its ticker symbol "AC".
• Associación Civil, a title for non profit organizations in Spain.

[edit] Schools

• Atlantic College, one of the twelve United World Colleges.
• Abbreviation for Assumption College located in Worcester, Massachusetts USA.
• Abbreviation for Aquinas College located in Perth, Western Australia.
• Short for Anglo - Chinese group of schools in Singapore and Indonesia

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Another name for the Ansuz rune
• Air conditioning (and air conditioner), the mechanical process of cooling air in enclosed spaces
• Ante Christum, (AC), Latin meaning "before Christ" or BC
• Anthrocon, a furry fandom convention
• Antichrist, in the Christian religion
• Average cost, in economics
• post-nominal AC Order of Australia, Companion
• Naval auxiliary ship serving as a collier (Auxilary Collier) in the U.S. Navy's list of hull classifications