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 * 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

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

Computing and internet

* 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

* carbon nanotubes, Nanocarbon, a short name for material based on carbon nanotubes * coulomb, Nanocoulomb, 1: 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 curve, 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 * Numerical control, a method of automatic operation of machine tools * Mazda MX-5 (NC), 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 Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, 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 Continent School (Colegio Nuevo Continente), a private school in Mexico * No comment, in internet slang * No contest (combat sports) * Cognizable offence, Non Cognizable Offense, in law * Nepali Congress, a political party in Nepal ** Nepali Congress (Democratic) ** Nepali Congress (Rastrabadi) * tacet, N.C., "no chord" in guitar tablature * Nonconformity (quality), in Quality management * Creative Commons NonCommercial license, Noncommercial (in Creative Commons licenses) {{disambiguation