VC

VC may refer to:

• Vehicle code, a motor vehicle traffic legal system
• Vanadium carbide, an inorganic compound
• Vancouver Canucks, a NHL hockey team
• Vanier College
• Vassar College
• Venture capital (or venture capitalist), the financing of growing businesses
• Vice-Chancellor, the chief executive of a university
• Victoria Cross, the highest British and Commonwealth award for valour in the face of the enemy
• Vice chairman, the second chairman of a board or committee
• Vigilance committee
• Vince Carter, a National Basketball Association player with the Phoenix Suns
• Vinyl chloride, a chemical used in the production of PVC
• Violoncello (usually abbreviated to cello), a bowed stringed instrument
• Virginia College
• Virtual Console, a Nintendo video game download service for the Wii game console
• Visual Composer, a modeling tool
• Visual cryptography
• Vitamin C, an essential nutrient
• Voluntary controlled school
• Versus Christus, a reference to the Antichrist
• Vice City, a fictional location in the Grand Theft Auto series

Linguistics

• a vowel-consonant syllable-pattern

Medicine

• vital capacity, the maximum volume of air that a person can exhale after maximum inhalation

History

• Vi coactus (in Latin: "force coacted"), a handwritten signal made on a signed document indicating that the statements made result from the application of torture or coercion, and thus may lack validity
• Viet Cong, an armed, communist guerrilla group during the Vietnam War.

Computing and telecommunications

• Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, a computational learning theory
• VC dimension, a measure of the capacity of a statistical classification algorithm
• version control — notably within the Emacs editor environment
• Video card
• video conferencing
• Virtual circuit, a telecommunications arrangement
• Virtual console (computer user-interface), a combination of a computer display and keyboard
• Virtual container, part of the SDH/SONET architecture of multiplexing protocols
• Visual C++, an integrated development environment product engineered by Microsoft for the C and C++ programming languages
• Volkov Commander, a computer program for managing files

Entertainment

• Vanessa Carlton, an American pop singer
• Vice City, a fictional city in the computer-game series Grand Theft Auto
• Tien Len, aka Vietnamese Cards or VC, a traditional card-game originating in Vietnam
• Violoncello, under the musical score abbreviation
• Visual Communications (VC), a non-profit Asian-Pacific-American media arts organization in Los Angeles
• Voyage Century, an MMORPG pirate game based on sailing in the trade-winds era
• Valkyria Chronicles, a Japanese franchise consisting of the PlayStation 3/PSP games, two manga series and an anime TV show.

Geography

• the ISO country-code for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a state in the Caribbean
  • .vc, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Vatican City, a sovereign city-state within Rome, Italy
• Watsonian vice-counties, subdivisions of Great Britain or Ireland

Transport

• Holden VC Commodore, an automobile introduced by Holden in 1980
• Ocean Airlines, IATA airline designator
• V_C speed, cruising speed in aircraft design
• Vehicular cycling, driving a bicycle on public roads
• Virginia Central Railroad, a U.S. railroad
• Voyageur Airways, IATA airline designator