NC may refer to:
People 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
Arts and media NC-17, an MPAA film rating system code indicating that children under 17 are not admitted Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India, a cultural centre Newtownards Chronicle, Northern Irish newspaper New Conglomerate (NC), a faction in the PlanetSide series N.C., "no chord" in guitar tablature The NonCommercial condition of Creative Commons licenses NCsoft, a producer of MMORPGs such as Lineage PernMUSH, an online game based on Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels
Places New Caledonia, special collectivity of France (ISO 3166-1 country code NC) New Canaan, a town in Connecticut, U.S. North Carolina, a U.S. state by postal abbreviation Northern Cyprus, a self-declared state on the island of Cyprus
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine Nasal cannula, a device used to deliver supplemental oxygen Nasal chondrocytes, the cell type within the hyaline cartilage of the nasal septum Neural crest, a transient component of the ectoderm Effective number of codons, a measure to study the state of codon usage biases in genes
Mathematics, computing, electronics, and manufacturing nc (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions NC (complexity), the set of decision problems decidable in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors Norton Commander, an orthodox file manager program Naming Context, in Microsoft Active Directory Netcat, a computer network utility Network Computer, a diskless desktop computer in the late 1990s Not connected, an open cable connection or unassigned connector or part pin Normally closed, an electrical switch where the default position is closed National Radio Company, American manufacturer of radio equipment from 1914 to 1991 Numerical control, a method of automatic operation of machine tools National coarse, a Unified Thread Standard for screws, nuts, and bolts
Physics and chemistry Neutral current, a class of physics interaction where the mediating boson is neutral, especially for neutrino experiments Nanocoulomb, 1: of the SI unit of electric charge Nuclear chemistry, the subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties Nanocarbon, a short name for material based on carbon nanotubes (-NC) Isocyanide, an organic functional group
Other uses in science and technology Noise criteria, a single-value measurement of background noise derived from a graphic representation of the sound pressure audio spectrum (noise curves)
Transport NC MX-5 Miata, the third generation of the Mazda MX-5 Northern Air Cargo, an American cargo airline (IATA designator NC) National Jet Systems, an Australian charter airline (IATA designator NC) Curtiss NC, an American flying boat nicknamed the "Nancy boat" NC-4, the first aircraft to cross the atlantic (with multiple stops) NC, an international maritime distress signal
Political organizations National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces or National Coalition, a Syrian revolutionary organisation New Centre, a former political party in France now known as The Centrists Nepali Congress, a political party in Nepal Nepali Congress (Democratic) Nepali Congress (Rastrabadi)
Education National Certificate, an educational award in various countries including Ireland and Scotland New Continent School (Colegio Nuevo Continente), a private school in Mexico
Other uses Naming convention, a convention for naming things. No comment, in internet slang No contest (combat sports) Non Cognizable Offense, in law Nonconformity (quality), in Quality management Noun class, a grammatical category of nouns
See also
NCS (disambiguation)