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NC may refer to:

People

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  • Naga Chaitanya, an Indian Telugu film actor; sometimes nicknamed by the initials of his first and middle name, NC
  • Nathan Connolly, lead guitarist for Snow Patrol
  • Nostalgia Critic, the alter ego of Internet comedian Doug Walker from That Guy with the Glasses

Places

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Science, technology, and mathematics

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Biology and medicine

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Chemistry

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Computing and internet

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  • NC (complexity), the set of decision problems decidable in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors
  • Naming Context, in Microsoft Active Directory
  • NCsoft, a producer of MMORPGs such as Lineage
  • Netcat, a computer network utility
  • Network computer, a diskless desktop computer in the late 1990s
  • Norton Commander, an orthodox file manager program
  • PernMUSH, an online game based on Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels

Physics and materials

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  • Nanocarbon, a short name for material based on carbon nanotubes
  • Nanocoulomb, 1:1,000,000,000 of the SI unit of electric charge
  • Neutral current, a class of physics interaction where the mediating boson is neutral, especially for neutrino experiments
  • Nuclear chemistry, the subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties

Mathematics

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Other uses in science and technology

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  • National coarse, a Unified Thread Standard for screws, nuts, and bolts
  • National Radio Company, American manufacturer of radio equipment from 1914 to 1991
  • Noise criteria, a single-value measurement of background noise derived from a graphic representation of the sound pressure audio spectrum (noise curves)
  • Noun class, a grammatical category of nouns
  • Normally closed, an electrical switch where the default position is closed
  • Not connected, an open cable connection or unassigned connector or part pin
  • Numerical control, a method of automatic operation of machine tools
  • NC MX-5 Miata, the third generation of the Mazda MX-5

Transport

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Other uses

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See also

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