ANC

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'ANC' usually refers to:

• African National Congress, an anti-apartheid movement which became the ruling political party in South Africa in the 1994 election.
• African Nations Cup, or African Cup of Nations, an international football tournament
• Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Alaska, IATA airport code

ANC may also refer to:

Organizations:

• Advisory Neighborhood Commission, community-based legislative councils which advise the other branches of the city government on neighborhood matters in Washington, D.C.
• Army Nurse Corps, a nursing branch of the United States Army
• All Nations' Church (Apostolic Church), an apostolic church located in Kennington, London, UK, also known as The All Nations Centre
• Australian Navy Cadets
• Association National Carabinieri, National association of the pertaining to the Arm of the Italian Police (Carabinieri)
• The Association of Noise Consultants
• Armée Nationale Congolaise, the Congolese armed forces from 1960-71
• Australian Navy Cadets, voluntary youth organisation sponsored by the Royal Australian Navy.

Companies

• Agilent Technologies Inc.'s ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange
• All News Channel, a former TV channel
• ABS-CBN News Channel, a news channel for ABS-CBN
• ANC Holdings Limited, a UK courier company acquired by FedEx on December 18, 2006

[edit] Technologies

• Active noise control or (Active noise cancellation), a noise-reduction technique
• Absolute neutrophil count, a measure of the real or actual number of white blood cells a patient has to fight infection
• Acid neutralizing capacity (also see Alkalinity)

Places

• Ancaster railway station, United Kingdom, National Rail code
• Arkansas Northeastern College, a post-secondary state educational institution whose main campus is in Blytheville, Arkansas
• Arlington National Cemetery

Other

• American National Corpus, a compendium of several hundred million examples of American English modeled after the British National Corpus, being compiled to advance scholarly study
• Ngas language of Nigeria, SIL International code
• Nuclear anchorage phenotype in Caenorhabditis elegans
• ANC-Halfords Cycling Team. Professional cycle race oufit from the 1980's.
• Absolute Neutrophil Count. Number of neutrophil granulocytes (a type of white blood cells) per microliter blood.