HC, hc or H/C may refer to:

Science, technology, and mathematics

Medicine

Health Canada Health Canada (HC; )Health Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Health (). is the Structure of the Canadian federal government#Departments, with subsidiary units, department of the Gove ...

Hemicrania continua Hemicrania continua (HC) is a persistent unilateral headache that responds to indomethacin. It is usually unremitting, but rare cases of remission have been documented. Hemicrania continua is considered a primary headache disorder, meaning that ...

* Hyperelastosis cutis or hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia

Chemistry

Hemocyanin Hemocyanins (also spelled haemocyanins and abbreviated Hc) are proteins that transport oxygen throughout the bodies of some invertebrate animals. These metalloproteins contain two copper atoms that reversibly bind a single oxygen molecule (O2 ...

, a metalloprotein abbreviated Hc *

HC smoke HC, hc or H/C may refer to: Science, technology, and mathematics Medicine * Health Canada * Hemicrania continua * Hyperelastosis cutis or hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia Chemistry * Hemocyanin, a metalloprotein abbreviated Hc * ...

, a US military designation for Hexachloroethane *

Homocapsaicin Homocapsaicin is a capsaicinoid and analog and congener of capsaicin in chili peppers (''Capsicum''). Like capsaicin it is an irritant. Homocapsaicin accounts for about 1% of the total capsaicinoids mixture and has about half the pungency of ca ...

, a capsaicinoid *

Hydrocarbon In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons are examples of group 14 hydrides. Hydrocarbons are generally colourless and Hydrophobe, hydrophobic; their odor is usually fain ...

, a category of substances consisting only of hydrogen and carbon

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

* 74HC-series integrated circuits, a logic family of integrated circuits * Felix HC, a series of Romanian personal microcomputers produced by ICE Felix Bucharest and which were ZX Spectrum clones * '' Hemianthus callitrichoides'', a freshwater aquatic plant native to Cuba * + h.c., a notation used in mathematics and quantum physics

Sports

Head Coach A head coach, senior coach, or manager is a professional responsible for training and developing athletes within a sports team. This role often has a higher public profile and salary than other coaching positions. In some sports, such as associat ...

Hors catégorie ''Hors catégorie'' (HC) is a French term used in stage bicycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization". The term was originally used for those mountain roads where cars were not expected to be able to pass. The HC climb is th ...

(French), used in cycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization" * UCI .HC road cycling races (1.HC and 2.HC), the second tier of events in the sport, after the UCI World Tour

Other uses

Heritage Corridor The Heritage Corridor (HC) is a Metra commuter rail line in Chicago, Illinois, and its southwestern suburbs, terminating in Joliet, Illinois. While Metra does not refer to its lines by colors, the Heritage Corridor appears on Metra timetables as ...

, a Metra commuter rail line running from Chicago to Joliet, Illinois * Highway contract route, an outsourced United States Postal Service delivery method, formerly known as

Star routes Star routes is a term used in connection with the United States postal service The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agencies of the United States ...

Honorary degree An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or '' ad hon ...

, or ''honoris causa'' *

Hors de commerce In printmaking, an edition is a number of prints struck from one plate, usually at the same time. This may be a '' limited edition'', with a fixed number of impressions produced on the understanding that no further impressions (copies) will be pro ...

, prints similar to Artist Proofs except they are only available through the artist directly *

Hospitality Club Hospitality Club (HC) was a hospitality exchange service (a gift economy network for finding homestays whereby hosts were not allowed to charge for lodging) accessible via a website. HC's specified goals were to facilitate "intercultural unde ...

, an internet-based hospitality service * ''

Houston Chronicle The ''Houston Chronicle'' is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. it is the third-largest newspaper by Sunday circulation in the United States, behind only ''The New York Times'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''. ...

'', newspaper of record of Houston, Texas *

Aero-Tropics Air Services Lip-Air Pty Ltd, operating as Aero-Tropics Air Services (ATAS), was an airline based in Cairns, Queensland, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland o ...

(IATA airline designator HC) *

Disability Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be Cognitive disability, cognitive, Developmental disability, d ...

, acronym for Handicap/Handicapped * High-cube container, a type of intermodal shipping container {{disambiguation