LOC

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LOC, L.O.C., Loc, LoC, or locs may refer to:

Aviation

  • Localizer, a component of an Instrument Landing System
  • Loss of control, a catastrophic condition in jet aircraft operations that results in the loss of control of the aircraft

Film, television, video

Literature

Military

  • Line of Control, a line which demarcates the boundary between Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir. The LOC, however, was not just an administrative boundary that was sketched to define the nascent territoralities of warring nation-states. The LOC rewrote space and place, disrupted shared codes and cosmologies, and redefined notions of being and belonging.[1]
  • Line of communication, in the military
  • Lock out chamber, a submarine diving chamber used for Special Operations Forces/Diver lock out

Music

Organizations

  • Library of Congress, the national library of the United States
  • LeMoyne-Owen College, a historically black college located in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • Liga Obrera Comunista, or Communist Workers League (Spain), a Trotskyist group in Spain active from 1976–1990
  • Loc Publishing, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
  • Love Of Crips, or League Of Crips, a gang abbreviation

Places

  • Loc River (disambiguation)
  • Lócs, a village in Vas county, Hungary.
  • Lóc, the Hungarian name for Loţu village, Sângeorgiu de Pădure town, Mureş County, Romania

Science, technology, and medicine

  • Lab-on-a-chip, a term for devices that integrate multiple laboratory functions on a single chip
  • Launch off Capture, a method of integrated circuit testing using scan chain
  • Level of Concern, used to describe a scale or ranking of potential harmful effects caused by one particular item or practice
  • Level of consciousness, a medical assessment of a patient's degree of consciousness
  • Limit of convection, the altitude where the virtual potential temperatures of a moist rising air parcel and the environment are equal
  • Limiting oxygen concentration, a concept in fire safety engineering
  • Lines of (source) code, a software metric used to measure the amount of code in a software program
  • LOC record, geolocation information resource record in Domain Name System
  • Loss of consciousness, see Level of consciousness
  • Loss-of-coolant accident, a mode of failure for a nuclear reactor
  • LOC, length of cut (as in machining operations, the length of cut the side of an END MILL can cut into a piece of metal)

Finance

Miscellaneous

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