Ic

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IC, ic, or i.c. may stand for:

Businesses, organizations, and government agencies

Educational institutions

• International College, Beirut, Lebanon
• Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, US
• Imperial College London, UK
• Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, US

Transportation

• IC Bus, a bus manufacturer
• Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC)
• Indian Airlines (IATA airline designator IC)
• InterCity, certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe
• Intercités, classic long-distance passenger day and night train services in France operated by SNCF

Other organizations

• Industry Canada, a division of the Canadian government
• United States Intelligence Community
• InterContinental, a hotel chain, or its parent company InterContinental Hotels Group

Economics and finance

• Information coefficient
• Indifference curve
• Industrial capacity
• Internal control

Language

• i.c., shorthand for in casu, Latin for 'in this case'
• ic, an Old English pronoun
• -ic, suffix
• -ić or -ič, a family name suffix in South Slavic languages

Music

• IC, Iron Cross (Burmese Band)

Places

• Canary Islands (ISO 3166-1 code: IC)
• Information Commons, Sheffield, 24hr Library at Sheffield University, United Kingdom
• Iowa City

Religion

• IC, postnominal letters for a member of the Rosminians, officially the Institute of Charity
• Christogram
• Irreducible complexity

Science and technology

Astronomy

• Type Ic supernova, a subtype of Type I supernova
• Index Catalogue, a nebula and other object catalogue used in astronomy

Biology and medicine

• Inferior colliculus, a part of the midbrain
• Inhibitory Concentration, as in half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC₅₀)
• Inspiratory capacity, a measure of lung volumes
• Intensive care medicine
• Intermittent catheterisation, a method of relieving the bladder
• Interstitial cystitis, a disease
• Informed consent, in clinical trials the form that has to be signed by the patient (subject) before entering the study

Electronics and communication

• Index of coincidence, in text analysis and cryptoanalysis
• Interconnection, physical linking of a telecommunication carrier's network with equipment or facilities not belonging to that network
• Integrated circuit, a set of electronic circuits on a semiconductor chip; the core element of modern electronic devices
• Interactive C, a programming language for robotic controllers
• I_C, or collector current, in bipolar junction transistors

Vehicles

• Impuls IC, a German hang glider design
• International Canoe, a powerful and extremely fast single handed sailing canoe

Other uses in science and technology

• Interchangeable core, a type of lock cylinder
• Ion chromatography
• Ionization chamber, a type of radiation detector
• Isolation condenser, a passive cooling system for boiling water nuclear reactors
• Ice I_c, a metastable cubic crystalline variant of ice

Other uses

• IC codes, police shorthand expressions for apparent ethnicity
• Incident commander
• Identity card