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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

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

Chemistry

• (-NC) Isocyanide, an organic functional group.

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Physics and materials

• 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

• nc (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

• 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

• 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

Other uses

• NC-17, an MPAA film rating system code indicating that children under 17 are not admitted
• National Certificate, an educational award in various countries including Ireland and Scotland
• National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces or National Coalition, a Syrian revolutionary organisation
• Nehru Centre, Mumbai, India
• New Centre, a former political party in France now known as The Centrists
• New Conglomerate (NC), a faction in the PlanetSide series
• New Continent School (Colegio Nuevo Continente), a private school in Mexico
• No comment, in internet slang
• No contest (combat sports)
• Non Cognizable Offense, in law
• Nepali Congress, a political party in Nepal
  • Nepali Congress (Democratic)
  • Nepali Congress (Rastrabadi)
• N.C., "no chord" in guitar tablature
• Nonconformity (quality), in Quality management
• Noncommercial (in Creative Commons licenses)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with N. C.
• All pages with titles beginning with N.C.
• All pages with titles beginning with NC
• All pages with titles beginning with Nc
• All pages with titles containing nc
• NCS (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages