IAC

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IAC can mean:

[edit] Organizations

• Interstate Arms Corporation, a firearms company specializing in reproductions of repeating shotguns.
• IAC/InterActiveCorp, an American conglomerate.
• Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children which raises consciousness about female genital cutting and similar issues
• The International Academy of Cytology, an international organisation of cytologists and professional persons concerned with research in clinical cytology.
• The International Action Center, a leftist organization.
• The International Aerobatic Club, which governs aerobatics in the United States under the regulation of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
• The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, an astrophysical research institute based in the Canary Islands, Spain.
• The Irish Air Corps, the Aviation wing of the Irish Defence Forces.
• International Auctioneer Championship, a yearly contest held by the National Auctioneers Association.
• In Action Crew - Australia
• Industrial Acoustics Company, the world's largest provider of noise and acoustic control products, structures and test facilities.
• IAC - The Film and Video Institute

[edit] Technical terms

• Idle Air Controller, a motor-driven valve which controls intake air to maintain idle RPM in internal combustion engines.
• Interactive Activation and Competition, a kind of Neural network.
• International access code, in telecommunications.
• Interapplication Communications, the previous name of Mac OS X's Apple events.
• Interpret As Command, a control character in the Telnet protocol.

[edit] Video games and music

• In Amber Clad, a missile frigate in the Halo video game series
• In music, it refers to an imperfect authentic cadence.