LC or Lc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* Library of Congress Classification, a system of library classification

Gaming and play

* Lego Chess, a Lego-based chess video game * Lego Creator, a theme of Lego * ''Lego Creator'' (video game), a Lego video game * Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto), a fictional city in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' computer and video game series

Music

* ''LC'' (album), 1981 album by The Durutti Column *

Lacuna Coil Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Since their formation in 1994, the group has had two name changes, being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, and they have recorded nine studio albums, two extended plays, two ...

, an Italian gothic metal band * Living Colour, an American hard rock band formed in New York * Los Campesinos!, a British indie-rock band formed in Cardiff

In other media

* Licensed Companion, from the '' In Death'' novels of J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) * Shop LC, a 24/7 American shopping television channel

Businesses, organisations, and government agencies

Government agencies

* Irish Land Commission (or simply Land Commission), a rent fixing commission by the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881 * Library of Congress, the ''de facto'' United States national library * Liquor Control, including the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission * Local Council (Uganda), a form of local elected government within the districts of Uganda * Technical Department of the Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany) in charge of research and development (LC, but more often referred to as C-amt) * Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway, a state-operated commuter rail service in the Kanpur-Lucknow region of India

Religious organizations

* Latin Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church * Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious order of priests * Liberty Counsel, a legal organization dedicated to advancing specific religious freedoms

Schools

* Lafayette College, a private college in Easton, Pennsylvania, US *

Laguna College The Laguna College, more popularly known by its initials LC, is a private, nonsectarian, co-educational institution located in San Pablo City, Laguna Laguna (Italian and Spanish for lagoon) may refer to: People * Abe Laguna (born 1992), Ameri ...

, a non-sectarian, private school in San Pablo City, Laguna * Launceston College (Tasmania), a public senior-secondary school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia *

Letran College The Colegio de San Juan de Letran, (transl: College of San Juan de Letran) also referred to by its acronym CSJL, is a private Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution owned and run by the friars of the Order of Preachers i ...

in Manila, Philippines * Lewis and Clark Community College, a community college in Godfrey, Illinois, US * Lomagundi College, an independent, boarding school in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe * Loomis Chaffee, a coeducational boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, US *

Lynchburg College The University of Lynchburg, formerly Lynchburg College, is a private university associated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and located in Lynchburg, Virginia. It has approximately 2,800 undergraduate and graduate students. T ...

, a private liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia, US *

Lynden Christian Schools Lynden Christian Schools (abbreviated LCS), often referred to as Lynden Christian (LC), is a non-denominational private Private or privates may refer to: Music * " In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation'' * Priva ...

, a private school in Lynden, Washington, US

Other businesses and organizations

* Latvian Way, a political party of Latvia * LC Perú, a Peruvian airline * Lean Cuisine, a brand of microwaveable meals * LendingClub, NYSE ticker symbol LC * Lotta Continua, a former far-left extra-parliamentary organization in Italy * Varig Logística (IATA airline designator LC)

Economics and finance

* Letter of credit, a document issued to provide a payment undertaking * Local currency, also referred to as Local Currency Unit or LCU

People

* Lorne Cardinal, stage and television actor *

Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement o ...

, Mexican painter/surrealist * Liz Claiborne, fashion designer * Les Claypool, bassist best known for his work with Primus * Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist * Laveranues Coles, New York Jets wide receiver *

Lauren Conrad Lauren Katherine Conrad (born February 1, 1986)) is an American television personality, fashion designer and author. In September 2004, as an 18-year-old, Conrad came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series '' Laguna Beac ...

, fashion designer and former reality TV star on ''The Hills'' and ''Laguna Beach'' *

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

, architect, and a series of furniture designed by same

Places

* Las Cruces, New Mexico, US * LC, Swansea, a Leisure Centre in Wales *

Leicester Leicester ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city, Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city l ...

, a city in the United Kingdom * Lewis Center, Ohio, United States * Little Compton, Rhode Island, US * Lučenec, a town in Slovakia *

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

, ISO 3166-1 country code

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* × ''Laeliocattleya'', a genus of orchids * Langerhans cell, a tissue-resident macrophage * Lethal concentration, a means to quantitatively indicate a gas or aerosol hazard * Lignocellulose *

Locus coeruleus The locus coeruleus () (LC), also spelled locus caeruleus or locus ceruleus, is a nucleus in the pons of the brainstem involved with physiological responses to stress and panic. It is a part of the reticular activating system. The locus coerule ...

, a noradrenergic nucleus in the brain stem * Long COVID, a term for aftereffects occurring after recovering from and presumed to be caused by COVID-19

Ecology

* Least Concern, a World Conservation Union "Red List of Threatened Species" category

Electronics and computing

.lc .lc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia, sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico and created on September 3, 1991. The registry is operated by Afilias and markets towards companies structured as LCs, LLCs ...

, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia * Macintosh LC family, a range of personal computers manufactured by Apple in the early 1990s * Macintosh LC, the first computer in the Macintosh LC family * LC-type optical fiber connector *

LC circuit An LC circuit, also called a resonant circuit, tank circuit, or tuned circuit, is an electric circuit consisting of an inductor, represented by the letter L, and a capacitor, represented by the letter C, connected together. The circuit can ac ...

, in electronics, a circuit with an inductor and a capacitor * Linear cryptanalysis, a form of cryptanalysis * Lines of Code * Logic cell, in

Field-programmable gate array A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturinghence the term '' field-programmable''. The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware d ...

Vehicles

* Toyota Land Cruiser, an SUV built by Toyota Motor Corporation * Lexus LC, a grand tourer built by Toyota Motor Corporation * Geely LC, a hatchback car *

Landing craft Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. The term excludes landing ships, which are larger. Pr ...

, used to convey infantry and vehicles to shore in an amphibious assault

Other uses in science and technology

Launch Complex A launch pad is an above-ground facility from which a rocket-powered missile or space vehicle is vertically launched. The term ''launch pad'' can be used to describe just the central launch platform ( mobile launcher platform), or the ent ...

, a rocket launch site * Leading coefficient, in mathematics * Leeuwin Current, a warm ocean current * Liquid chromatography, an analytical chemistry technique *

Liquid crystal Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal may flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a crystal-like way. T ...

, a phase of matter with properties between a solid and a liquid state, commonly used in displays

Other uses

Law corporation Law is a set of rules that are created and are law enforcement, enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. ...

, a special type of limited liability corporation available for single attorneys in California *

Leaving Certificate A secondary school leaving qualification is a document signifying that the holder has fulfilled any secondary education requirements of their locality, often including the passage of a final qualification examination. For each leaving certifica ...

, the final course in the Irish secondary school system *

Letter case Letter case is the distinction between the Letter (alphabet), letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain lang ...

, used in orthography and typography to denote the difference between capital and non-capital letters **

Lower case Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

lettering * Level crossing, on some maps, an intersection of a railway line and road at the same level * ''

Loc. cit. {{Italic title ''Loc. cit.'' (Latin, short for ''loco citato'', meaning "in the place cited") is a footnote or endnote term used to repeat the title and page number for a given work (and author). ''Loc. cit.'' is used in place of ibid. when the ref ...

'' (''loco citato''), in citations, used to repeat a citation, including the page to which the citation refers * Long course, an Olympic-size swimming pool * Lord Chancellor, a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom