CIC may refer to:

Organizations

Canada

Cadet Instructors Cadre The Cadet Instructors Cadre (CIC; ) consists of approximately 7,500 Canadian Forces (CF) training officers. The branch is the largest single group within the Canadian Forces reserve force subcomponent Cadet Organizations Administration and Traini ...

, a part of the Canadian Armed Forces * Canadian Infantry Corps, renamed in 1947 to

Royal Canadian Infantry Corps The Royal Canadian Infantry Corps () is the infantry corps of the Canadian Army and includes regular and reserve force regiments. Originally formed as the Canadian Infantry Corps on 2 September 1942 to encompass all existing infantry regiment ...

Canadian International Council The Canadian International Council (CIC; ) is a Canadian think tank on foreign relations. It is an independent, member-based council established to strengthen Canada's role in international affairs. Its goal is to advance debate on international ...

* Canadian Islamic Congress *

Chemical Institute of Canada The Chemical Institute of Canada is a Canadian professional umbrella organization for researchers and professionals in the field of chemistry. It was founded in 1921 as the Canadian Institute of Chemistry until it merged with other groups in 1945 ...

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC; )Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program since 2015; the legal title is Department of Citizenship and Immigration (). is the Ministry ...

, formerly Citizenship and Immigration Canada *

Columbia International College Columbia International College is a private school, private boarding school, boarding university-preparatory, preparatory school in the Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood neighbourhood of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As of 2014, the school has stud ...

, Ontario *

Credit Institute of Canada The Credit Institute of Canada (CIC) () is a not-for-profit organization created by a special Act of Parliament on June 11, 1928. The CIC provides credit management resources, education and certification to its members and is the only organizatio ...

, a non-profit professional association *

Crown Investments Corporation The Crown Investments Corporation (CIC) is a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Saskatchewan. It functions as a holding company to manage the province's commercial Crown corporations, as well as the provincial government's minority holdin ...

, Saskatchewan

China

China Investment Corporation China Investment Corporation (CIC) is a sovereign wealth fund that manages part of China's foreign exchange reserves. China's largest sovereign fund, CIC was established in 2007 with about US$200 billion of assets under management. In Mar ...

, a Chinese sovereign wealth fund *

Chinese Industrial Cooperatives Chinese Industrial Cooperatives ( zh, c=工業合作社, p=Gōngyè Hézuòshè) (CICs) were organisations established in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) to support China's war effort by organizing small-scale grassroots in ...

Hong Kong

* Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre *

Construction Industry Council (Hong Kong) The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is a statutory body established on 1 February 2007 after the enactment of the Construction Industry Council Ordinance on 24 May 2006. The main functions of the CIC are to convey the industry's needs and ...

India

Central Information Commission The Central Information Commission is a statutory body, set up under the Right to Information Act in 2005 under the Government of India to act upon complaints from those individuals who have not been able to submit information requests to a Ce ...

Cluster Innovation Centre The Cluster Innovation Centre (DU CIC) is a Government of India-funded center established under the aegis of the University of Delhi. It was founded in 2011 by Prof. Dinesh Singh, the then Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi, and intr ...

* Coordination of Islamic Colleges

Kenya

* CIC Insurance Group Limited, an insurance provider *

Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) The constitution of Kenya approved by parliament unanimously on 1 April 2010 led to the formation of a Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution. This commission was mandated to facilitate in the implementation process of the new const ...

United Kingdom

Children in Crossfire Children in Crossfire is a registered charity A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, Religion, religious or other activities serving the publi ...

, a charity in Derry *

Community interest company A community interest company (CIC, pronounced "see-eye-see", or colloquially, "kick") is a form of social enterprise in the United Kingdom intended "for people wishing to establish businesses which trade with a social purpose..., or to carry on ...

, a type of social enterprise company *

Construction Industry Council (United Kingdom) Construction Industry Council (CIC) is the representative forum for professional bodies, research organisations and specialist business associations in the United Kingdom construction industry. History The first proposals for a Building Industry ...

Cult Information Centre The Cult Information Centre (CIC) is a British anti-cult organisation. The organisation also serves as a resource for information on controversial religious groups, therapy cult A therapy or medical treatment is the attempted remediation ...

, an education resource

United States

Cable in the Classroom Cable in the Classroom was an American division of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association that assisted the cable television industry in providing educational content to schools. The organization was founded in 1989. A Canadian orga ...

(1989–2014), a defunct division of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association *

Cambridge Innovation Center Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is an American community of entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 1999 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates Timothy Rowe and Andrew Olmsted. Its campuses are a mix of startups, corporate ...

, a real estate services company *

Catholic Interracial Council John LaFarge Jr. (February 13, 1880 – November 24, 1963) was an American Jesuit Catholic priest known for his activism against racism and anti-semitism. Involved in the heyday (and eventual breakup) of Thomas Wyatt Turner's Federated Col ...

, established in 1934 by John LaFarge Jr. *

Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway , also known as the CRANDIC, is a Class III railroad operating in the US state of Iowa. The CRANDIC currently operates of main line and more than of yard trackage in four east central Iowa counties. The ...

Census Information Center The Census Information Center program is part of the U.S. Census Bureau's data dissemination network. History The Census Information Center (CIC) Program was started in 1988 to improve access to census data by minority groups and economically ...

, of the U.S. Census Bureau *

Center on International Cooperation The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) is a non-profit research center and think tank based at New York University. For over two decades, CIC has been a leader in applied policy that links politics, security, justice, development, and hu ...

, a foreign policy think tank based at New York University *

Central Intercollegiate Conference The Central Intercollegiate Conference (CIC) was an American intercollegiate athletic conference that operated from 1928 to 1968. It was less often referred to as the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAC), particularly towards the begi ...

, an athletic conference (1928–1968) *

Check Into Cash Check Into Cash is a financial services retailer with more than 1,100 stores in 30 states. The company was founded in 1993 by W. Allan Jones in Cleveland, Tennessee, where the headquarters are located today. The firm offers payday loans, online ...

, a financial services retailer offering payday loans *

CIC Video CIC Video was a home video distributor, established in 1980, owned by Cinema International Corporation (the forerunner of United International Pictures), and operated in some countries (such as United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Japan, France, Ge ...

, a defunct home video distributor *

Cinema International Corporation Cinema International Corporation (CIC) was a film distribution company started by Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures in the early 1970s to distribute the two studios' films outside the United States – it even operated in Canada before it ...

, later United International Pictures, a film distributor *

Committee on Institutional Cooperation The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference. The consortium was renamed on June 29, 2016. Member universities The Big ...

, now Big Ten Academic Alliance, a university consortium *

Council of Independent Colleges The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is an association in the United States of more than 650 independent, liberal arts colleges and university, universities and more than 100 higher education affiliates and organizations. Member institutions ...

Counter Intelligence Corps The Counter Intelligence Corps (Army CIC) was a World War II and early Cold War intelligence agency within the United States Army consisting of highly trained special agents. Its role was taken over by the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in 1961 and ...

, a former US Army intelligence agency * Criminal Investigation Corps, a Puerto Rico Police Department division *

United States Army Criminal Investigation Command The United States Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID or DACID), previously known as the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC), is the primary federal law enforcement agency of the United States Depa ...

Other organisations

* Centre intercantonal d'information sur les croyances, Swiss cult watching organization * CIC Holdings, a listed company in Sri Lanka, formerly Chemical Industries (Colombo) PLC * College of the Immaculate Conception (disambiguation) * Combined Independent Colleges, Australia * Crédit Industriel et Commercial, a French bank *

International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) (French: ''Conseil International de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier'', German: ''Internationaler Rat zur Erhaltung des Wildes und der Jagd'') is a politically independe ...

(''Conseil International de la Chasse'')

Science and medicine

* Cardioinhibitory centre, an influence on

heart rate Heart rate is the frequency of the cardiac cycle, heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (''beats per minute'', or bpm). The heart rate varies according to the body's Human body, physical needs, including the nee ...

* Chronic idiopathic constipation * ''CIC'' (gene), a gene encoding Capicua homolog, a human protein *

Combined injectable contraceptive Combined injectable contraceptives (CICs) are a form of hormonal birth control for women. They consist of monthly injections of combined formulations containing an estrogen and a progestin to prevent pregnancy. CICs are different from progestog ...

, taken to suppress fertility

Technology

Calculus of inductive constructions In mathematical logic and computer science, the calculus of constructions (CoC) is a type theory created by Thierry Coquand. It can serve as both a typed programming language and as constructive foundation for mathematics. For this second reason ...

, a formal system used in logic, mathematics, and computer science *

Carrier identification code An interexchange carrier (IXC), in U.S. legal and regulatory terminology, is a type of telecommunications company, commonly called a long-distance telephone company. It is defined as any carrier that provides services across multiple local acce ...

, a four-digit ID assigned to telephone companies * Cascaded integrator-comb, a class of digital filters *

CIC (Nintendo) The Checking Integrated Circuit (CIC) is a lockout chip designed by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console in 1985; the chip is part of a system known as 10NES, in which a ''key'' (which is stored in the game) i ...

, a security lockout chip used in Nintendo game consoles *

Circuit identification code The ISDN Services User Part ( ISUP) Circuit Identification Code (CIC) is part of the Signaling System #7 which is used to set up telephone calls in Public Switched Telephone Networks as part of the Initial Address Message (IAM). When a telephone ...

, used in digital telephony * Clustered integer core, an AMD CPU architecture

Other uses

* Cambridge International Corpus, former name of the Cambridge English Corpus, a collection of English language words * Catholic Integrated Community, an apostolic association originating in Germany, 1945-2020 * Certified Insurance Counselor, an insurance agent program *

Combat information center A combat information center (CIC) or action information centre (AIC) is a room in a warship or Airborne early warning and control, AWACS aircraft that functions as a tactical center and provides processed information for command and control of ...

, a military operations room * Commander-in-chief, supreme head of an armed force or branch *

Cook Islands Cup Cook Islands Cup is the top knockout tournament of the Cook Islands Football Association in Cook Islands. Cook Islands Cup winners *1950: Titikaveka *1951–77: ''Unknown'' *1978: Tupapa Maraerenga *1979: Titikaveka *1980: Matavera *1981: ...

, the national association football cup of the Cook Islands * ''

Charles in Charge ''Charles in Charge'' is an American sitcom television series that premiered on October 3, 1984, on CBS. The series was a production of Al Burton Productions and Scholastic Productions in association with Universal Television and starred Sco ...

'', a 1984–1989 American sitcom *

Chico Regional Airport Chico Regional Airport , formerly known as Chico Municipal Airport, is north of Chico, California, Chico, in Butte County, California, United States. The airport covers , has two runways and one helipad. Its fixed-base operator, Northgate Aviat ...

(IATA airport code), California, US * Code of Canon Law (disambiguation) (''Codex Iuris Canonici''), the ecclesiastical law of the Latin Catholic Church *

Community indifference curve A community indifference curve is an illustration of different combinations of commodity quantities that would bring a whole community the same level of utility. The model can be used to describe any community, such as a town or an entire nation. I ...

, in economics * Concours International Combiné, or "International Combined Contest", a category of competition in equestrianism * Critical illness cover, an insurance product * The

ISO 639-3 ISO 639-3:2007, ''Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages'', is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for ...

code for the

Chickasaw language The Chickasaw language (, ) is a Native American language of the Muskogean family. It is agglutinative and follows the word order pattern of subject–object–verb (SOV). The language is closely related to, though perhaps not entirely mutuall ...