SPC may refer to:

Business and law

Segregated portfolio company A segregated portfolio company (or SPC), sometimes referred to as a protected cell company, is a company which segregates the assets and liabilities of Class A share, different classes (or sometimes series) of shares from each other and from the ge ...

, a specialized form of offshore company * Signature panel code, a credit or debit card security code *

Social purpose corporation A social purpose corporation (SPC) is a type of for-profit entity, a corporation, in some U.S. states that enables, but does not require, considering social or environmental issues in decision making. SPCs are similar to benefit corporations (B c ...

, a company that considers social issues in its decision making *

Special purpose company A special-purpose entity (SPE), also called a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) or a financial vehicle corporation (FVC), is a legal entity (usually a limited company of some type or, sometimes, a limited partnership) created to fulfill narrow, speci ...

, a subsidiary usually created solely for isolating a financial risk, or for financial reporting reasons *

Statistical process control Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistics, statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process. This helps to ensure that the process operates efficiently, ...

, a method of quality control *

Supplementary protection certificate In the European Economic Area (European Union member countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) is a ''sui generis'' intellectual property (IP) right that extends the duration of certain rights a ...

, a ''sui generis'', patent-like, intellectual property right

Organisations

Businesses

* Singapore Petroleum Company, a Singapore area oil company * Southern Pacific Communications, predecessor of American telecommunications provider Sprint Corporation *

Software Publishing Corporation Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) was a Mountain View, California, Mountain View, California–based manufacturer of business software, originally well known for its "pfs:" series (and its subsequent "pfs:First" and "pfs:Professional" derivati ...

, a former U.S. computer software manufacturer *

Sony Pictures Classics Sony Pictures Classics Inc. is an American arthouse film production and distribution company that is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. It was founded in 1992 by former Orion Classics heads Michael Barker, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloo ...

, a speciality division of Sony Pictures Entertainment * SPC Australia, a brand of jams and tinned goods founded in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia *

SPC Group SPC Group () is a South Korean food company based in Seoul that manufactures food, bread, and other confectionery products. Sangmidang, the precursor of Samlip General Food was founded in 1945 and the group was launched in 2004. SPC Group is one ...

, a Korean food company from Samlip Group *

Synthetic Plastics Company Synthetics Plastics Company or SPC of Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, most populous City (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, Essex Co ...

, a defunct plastics manufacturer that owned many budget-price record labels * Syrian Petroleum Company, a state-owned oil company * System Planning Corporation, a U.S. military electronics corporation

Churches

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church#Constit ...

( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva, link=no), an Eastern Orthodox Christian Church * Southern Presbyterian Church (Australia)

Government and politics

Pacific Community The Pacific Community (PC), formerly the South Pacific Commission (SPC), is an international development organisation governed by 27 members, including 22 Pacific island countries and territories around the Pacific Ocean. The organisation's hea ...

, formerly the South Pacific Commission, a Pacific Islands regional intergovernmental organisation * Supreme Petroleum Council (Kuwait), one of the governmental agencies of Kuwait *

Socialist Party of Canada The Socialist Party of Canada (SPC) was a political party that existed from 1904 to 1925, led by E. T. Kingsley. It published the newspaper, '' Western Clarion''. History Establishment The Socialist Party of Canada was founded at the Sociali ...

* Socialist Party of British Columbia * Supreme People's Court (disambiguation), highest judicial body in several countries *

Supreme Political Council The Supreme Political Council (SPC; ) is an extraconstitutional collective head of state and rival executive established in 2016 in Sanaa by the Houthis and the pro-Houthi faction of the General People's Congress (GPC) to rule Yemen opposed ...

, governing body in Yemen formed by the Houthi movement and the General People's Congress * Student Police Cadet Project

Schools

San Pedro College San Pedro College is a private, Catholic, research, coeducational basic and higher education institution run by the Dominican Sisters of the Trinity in Davao City, Davao del Sur, Philippines. It was founded in 1956. It began as a school of n ...

, a Catholic institution in Davao City, Philippines * San Pedro College of Business Administration, a private institute in Laguna, Philippines * St Patrick's College (disambiguation), various institutions * Saint Paul's College (disambiguation), various institutions * St Peter's College (disambiguation), various institutions *

St. Petersburg College St. Petersburg College (SPC) is a public college in St. Petersburg, Florida. Part of the Florida College System, SPC offers several associate and baccalaureate degree programs. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ...

, a community college with multiple campuses in Pinellas County, Florida, U.S. *

South Plains College South Plains College (SPC) is a public community college in Levelland, Texas. It also has five locations in Plainview, at the Reese Technology Center (formerly Reese Air Force Base), in western Lubbock, the Lubbock Downtown Center and th ...

, a community college based in Levelland, Texas

Other organizations

* Swedish Paralympic Committee, the non-profit organization representing Swedish athletes in the International Paralympic Committee * Sisters of Charity of St. Paul, Religious congregation founded by St Paul * Seattle Privacy Coalition, a group of personal privacy and government transparency activists based in Seattle, Washington

Police and military

* Scalable Plate Carrier, a ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, often called a bulletproof vest *

Specialist (rank) Specialist is a military rank in some countries' armed forces. Two branches of the United States Armed Forces use the rank. It is one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the United States Army, above private (PVT), private (PV2), and private ...

, one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the U.S. Army * Special Purpose Cartridge, a rifle cartridge developed by Remington and the US military * Special police constable * Student Police Cadet Project, a government of Kerala initiative. * State Police Chief (aka Director general of police), a rank in the Indian Police Service

Science and technology

Secure multiparty computation Secure multi-party computation (also known as secure computation, multi-party computation (MPC) or privacy-preserving computation) is a subfield of cryptography with the goal of creating methods for parties to jointly compute a function over their ...

, a cryptography problem introduced in 1982 * Service programming code, a code in most CDMA handsets/mobiles * Signal peptidase I, an enzyme * Signaling Point Code, used for SS7 signaling protocol in telephony systems * Simple point charge, a 3-point water model used in computational chemistry simulations *

Sodium percarbonate Sodium percarbonate or sodium carbonate peroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula . It is an adduct of sodium carbonate ("soda ash" or "washing soda") and hydrogen peroxide (that is, a perhydrate). It is a colorless, crystalline, hygros ...

, an oxidizing agent used in cleaning products * Solid phase crystallization, a method to produce polycrystalline silicon * SPC file format, a file format used in spectroscopy * SPC700, a processor used for audio in the Super NES hardware * Stage pin connector, a standard power cable connector *

, a method for achieving quality control in manufacturing processes * Storage Performance Council, a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize, and promote storage subsystem benchmarks; see

IBM SAN Volume Controller The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a block storage virtualization appliance that belongs to the IBM System Storage product family. SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer in a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN). Arch ...

Stored program control Stored program control (SPC) is a telecommunications technology for telephone exchanges. Its characteristic is that the switching system is controlled by a computer program stored in a memory in the switching system. SPC was the enabling technology ...

, a machine control principle that uses a computer to store programs and data *

Storm Prediction Center The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is a US government agency that is part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), operating under the control of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is part of the National Oceani ...

, a division of NOAA's National Weather Service that forecasts and deals with strong to severe weather events *

Summary of Product Characteristics A package insert is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use. For prescription medications, the insert is technical, providing information for medical professionals about how to pr ...

, the defining information document for medicinal products used in the European Union *

SupraPubic Catheter A suprapubic cystostomy or suprapubic catheter (SPC) (also known as a vesicostomy or epicystostomy) is a surgically created connection between the urinary bladder and the skin used to drain urine from the bladder in individuals with obstruction ...

, used to drain urine from the bladder

Other

* IATA code "SPC" for

La Palma Airport La Palma Airport () is an airport located in Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo, south of the city of Santa Cruz de La Palma on La Palma in the Canary Islands. It is operated by Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), who operate the ...

, Canary Islands *

Scrabble Players Championship The Scrabble Players Championship (formerly the North American Scrabble Championship, and earlier the National Scrabble Championship) is the largest ''Scrabble'' competition in North America. The event is currently held every year, and from 2004 t ...

, an annual Scrabble championship event in North America *

South Pacific Championship The South Pacific Championship (also known as SPC) was a rugby union competition that was introduced in 1986 and contested through to 1990. The competition featured six teams - three provinces from New Zealand; Auckland, Canterbury and Welling ...

(1986–1990), a rugby union competition for Australia, New Zealand and Fiji * Southwest Preparatory Conference, an athletic league in Texas and Oklahoma, US * ''

Smile Precure! is a 2012 Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation and the ninth installment in Izumi Todo's ''Pretty Cure'' metaseries, featuring the seventh generation of Cures. The series is written by Shōji Yonemura, best known as ...

'', the ninth installment of the ''Pretty Cure'' franchise, released in 2012 * Student Price Card, a loyalty card program in Canada *

, a specialty film studio owned by

Sony is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (i ...