WC
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WC or Wc commonly refers to a Water Closet (aka a flush toilet). It may also refer to:
- In computing
- Wade Cederlund, A professional
- Warcraft, a computer game series
- Water cooled, in reference to cooling computer devices via water
- wc (Unix), a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file
- web cache, by which web documents are stored to save bandwidth
- Wikimedia Commons, an image repository website
- Wing Commander, the Origin Systems computer game series and related franchise
- Work computer, as opposed to home computer (commonly used in Internet forums)
- Write-combining, a computing performance method of combining multiple memory writes before sending them
- The War Chiefs is the first official expansion pack for the real-time strategy game Age of Empires III
- In industry
- Islena Airlines (IATA code)
- White Castle (restaurant), the oldest American hamburger fast food restaurant chain
- Will Call, when a buyer picks up product directly from the seller
- Wired Country, a New Zealand Internet Service Provider
- Wisconsin Central Ltd., a former Class II Railroad
- Wisconsin Central railroad (AAR reporting mark "WC")
- Workers' compensation, a payment for employees to cover medical costs
- Working Capital,
- In music
- WC (band), a Polish punk rock band
- WC (rapper), a rapper from Los Angeles, California
- Westside Connection, a rap group made up of Ice Cube, WC and Mack 10
- In science
- Winogradsky column, an ecological experiment
- Tungsten carbide, a high-boiling point metallic alloy (chemical formula WC)
- Water column, a conceptual column of water from surface to bottom sediments
- In sport
- World championships, a type of global sporting competition
- World cup, another type of global sporting competition
- Washington Capitals, a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C.
- Other
- Wah Ching (華青), a Chinese American gang
- Warren Commission, an investigation into the JFK assassination
- Wing Chun, a Chinese Kung fu system
- Winx Club, an Italian animated fantasy/adventure series