PLC

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PLC or plc may refer to:

Business

  • Public limited company, a type of limited company whose shares may be sold to the public
  • Program length commercial, or infomercial
  • Programmable logic controller, an automated control for plant floor machinery
  • Product lifecycle (disambiguation), the succession of stages a product goes through
  • Personal Line of Credit, credit extended by a financial institution to a customer

Education

  • Performance Learning Center, one element of the Communities In Schools education network
  • Presidents Leadership Class, a leadership institution for undergraduates at the University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Platoon Leaders Class, a summer training program for college students given by the Officer Candidates School of the United States Marine Corps
  • Prague Linguistic Circle or Prague School of Linguistics
  • Presbyterian Ladies' College (disambiguation), the name or former name of several independent girls' schools in Australia, affiliated with either the Presbyterian Church of Australia or the Uniting Church in Australia
  • Professional learning community, a movement in the education field of teachers sharing with teachers to improve learning among their students
  • Pymble Ladies' College, an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Pymble, a suburb in the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Post Leaving Certificate, is an informal term describing a large range of courses and qualifications run in Ireland for students who have finished their secondary education

Medicine and psychology

  • Peter Lougheed Centre, a hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Pityriasis lichenoides chronica, the chronic version of the immune system disease Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
  • Pathological laughing and crying, a disorder of emotional expression due to brain conditions, distinct from normal emotional cause and effect
  • Posterolateral Corner, a region of the human knee
  • Phospholipase C, an enzyme that serves along a hormone signalling pathway

Politics

Science and technology

  • Packet loss concealment, a technique to mask the effects of missing packets in VoIP communications
  • Phospholipase C, an enzyme which cleaves PI(4,5)P2 to form IP3 and diacylglycerol
  • Polymorphic Lambda Calculus, a typed lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism
  • Portevin–Le Chatelier effect, the serrated portion of a stress strain curve
  • Power line communication, data on a conductor that is also used simultaneously for electric power transmission
  • Programmable logic controller, a digital computer used for automation of industrial processes, such as machinery control in factories
  • Power Line Cycle, period of Utility frequency

Other uses

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