PLC

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PLC may stand for:

Contents 1 Business 2 Education 3 Linguistics 4 Medicine 5 Politics 6 Technology 7 Military 8 Miscellenea

[edit] Business

• Public limited company, in UK or Ireland, is a type of limited company whose shares may be sold to the public
• Program length commercial, or infomercial
• Product life cycle, the succession of stages a product goes through

[edit] Education

• Presbyterian Ladies' College, the name of several independent girls' schools in Australia
• Pymble Ladies' College, an independent girls' school in Sydney, Australia

[edit] Linguistics

• Prague linguistic circle, an influential school of linguistic thought
• Phonetic loan character, an etymologic category of Chinese characters
• Penn Linguistics Colloquium, an annual conference at the University of Pennsylvania

[edit] Medicine

• Pityriasis lichenoides chronica, the chronic version of the immune system disease Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
• Phospholipase C, an enzyme which cleaves PI(4,5)P2 to form IP3 and diacylglycerol

[edit] Politics

• Palestinian Legislative Council, law-making body of the Palestinian Authority
• Parti Libéral du Canada, the French name of the Liberal Party of Canada
• Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, the Spanish name of the Constitutional Liberal Party of Nicaragua

[edit] Technology

• Packet Loss Concealment, a technique to mask the effects of missing packets in VoIP communications
• Power line communication, including broadband PLC modes
• Programmable logic controller, a small special-purpose computer used to automate machines
• Polymorphic Lambda Calculus, a typed lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism (also known as System F)
• Planar lightwave circuit, photonic chip made by depositing doped and undoped layers of silica on a silicon substrate

[edit] Military

• Platoon Leaders Course, A single ten week, or two six week program that the Marines use for possible OCS candidates, which is undertaken during the summer for college students

[edit] Miscellenea

• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795), a federal monarchic republic formed by Poland and Lithuania
• Platoon Leaders Class, the United States Marine Corps training program for Marine Officer Candidates
• Psycho le Cemu, a Japanese visual kei rock band
• Patrol Leaders' Council, the leadership body in a Boy Scout Troop
• PLC plastic
• Pigmy Love Circus, a Los Angeles based rock band.
• Parish Life Coordinator, a term used for a non-priest entrusted with the pastoral care of a Catholic parish under Canon 517.2 of the Catholic Church's Code of Canon Law
• Professional Learning Community, a movement in the education field of teachers sharing with teachers to improve learning among their students
• People's Liberation Cookies, a southern urban slang term used as a synonym for Keebler's E.L.Fudge cookies