NIC
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NIC may refer to:
Government
- National Ice Center, tri-agency operational center
- National identity card.
- National Informatics Centre, India's premiere government organization providing network infrastructure and e-Governance support
- National Institute of Corrections, a division of the United States Department of Justice
- National Insurance contributions, taxation in the United Kingdom
- National Intelligence Council, the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the United States Intelligence Community
- Newly industrialized country, social/economic classification status applied to several countries around the world by political scientists
- NIC, ISO 3166-1 3-letter country code for Nicaragua
Technology
- Negative impedance converter, configuration of an operational amplifier which acts as a negative load
- Network Information Centre, part of the Domain Name System of the Internet
- Network Interface Controller, electronic hardware designed to allow computer hardware components to communicate over a computer network (i.e. a Network Interface Card or Ethernet Adapter).
- Network Interface Card, piece of computer hardware designed to allow computers to communicate over a computer network
- New Internet Computer, an inexpensive Linux-based network computer product
Other fields
- John von Neumann Institute for Computing at Jülich Research Centre, Germany
- NIC, a brand name for the drug lorazepam
- National Ice Centre (UK), an ice and music arena in Nottingham, UK
- New In Chess, chess magazine that appears eight times a year
- NIC Zuidlaren, international horse riding competition in Zuidlaren, the Netherlands
- Nomarski interference contrast, a technique in microscopy
- North Idaho College, community college located in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
- North-American Interfraternity Conference, association of collegiate men's fraternities that was formally organized in 1910
- Nagoya International Center, a non-profit organization based in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan
- NIC, a reference note, typically in an architectural drawing, indicating "not in contract"
- National identity card
- Nursing Interventions Classification, a classifcation system for nursing
- The North-American Interfraternity Conference