LC or Lc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Library of Congress Classification The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic li ...

, a system of library classification

Gaming and play

* Lego Chess, a Lego-based chess video game * Lego City, a theme of Lego * Lego Creator, a theme of Lego * ''Lego Creator'' (video game), a Lego video game * Limbus Company, a strategy role-playing video game * Lethal Company, an early access cooperative survival horror 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 ten studio albums, two extended plays, two l ...

, an Italian gothic metal band * Living Colour, an American hard rock band formed in New York *

Los Campesinos! Los Campesinos! are a seven-piece indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in early 2006 at Cardiff University. The band has seen several lineup changes– lead vocalist Gareth David Paisey and guitarists Neil Turner and Tom Bromley are the o ...

, 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 Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

, 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) The Ministry of Aviation (, abbreviated RLM) was a government department during the period of Nazi Germany (1933–45). It is also the original name of the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus building on the Wilhelmstrasse in central Berlin, Germany, whic ...

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 The Latin Church () is the largest autonomous () particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 ''sui iuris'' churches in full communion w ...

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 Lafayette College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 18 ...

, a private college in Easton, Pennsylvania, US * Laguna College, a non-sectarian, private school in San Pablo City, Laguna * Landmark College, a private college in Putney, Vermont, US for students with learning disabilities * Launceston College (Tasmania), a public senior-secondary school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia * Letran College 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 The Loomis Chaffee School (; LC or Loomis) is an Independent school, independent, coeducational, college preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, including postgraduate year, postgraduate students, located in Windsor, ...

, a coeducational boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, US * Lynchburg College, a private liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia, US * Lynden Christian Schools, a private school in Lynden, Washington, US

Other businesses and organizations

Latvian Way Latvian Way () was a Conservative liberalism, conservative-liberal List of political parties in Latvia, political party in Latvia. It merged with Latvia's First Party to form the Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way (LPP/LC) in 2007. It described it ...

, 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 letter of credit (LC), also known as a documentary credit or bankers commercial credit, or letter of undertaking (LoU), is a payment mechanism used in international trade to provide an economic guarantee from a creditworthy bank to an exp ...

, a document issued to provide a payment undertaking *

Local currency In economics, a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations. A regional currency is a form of local currency encompassing a larger geographical area, while a community curren ...

, also referred to as Local Currency Unit or LCU

People

* Lorne Cardinal, stage and television actor * Leonora Carrington, Mexican painter/surrealist *

Liz Claiborne Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne (March 31, 1929 – June 26, 2007) was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. Her success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that cou ...

, fashion designer * Les Claypool, bassist best known for his work with Primus *

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, soc ...

, 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 late 2004, she came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series '' Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County'', ...

, 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 architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture ...

, architect, and a series of furniture designed by same

Places

Las Cruces, New Mexico Las Cruces (; ; lit. 'the crosses') is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the county seat, seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 United States ce ...

, 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 area, and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest city in the East Midlands with a popula ...

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

Lučenec Lučenec (; ; ; ; Lelkes György (1992), Magyar helységnév-azonosító szótár, Balassi Kiadó, Budapest, 508 p.) is a town in the Banská Bystrica Region of south-central Slovakia. Historically, it was part, and in the 18th century the capital ...

, a town in Slovakia *

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Saint Vincent ...

, ISO 3166-1 country code

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* × ''Laeliocattleya'', a genus of orchids *

Langerhans cell A Langerhans cell (LC) is a tissue-resident macrophage of the skin once thought to be a resident dendritic cell. These cells contain organelles called Birbeck granules. They are present in all layers of the epidermis and are most prominent in t ...

, a tissue-resident macrophage * Lethal concentration, a means to quantitatively indicate a gas or aerosol hazard *

Lignocellulose Lignocellulose refers to plant dry matter (biomass), so called lignocellulosic biomass. It is the most abundantly available raw material on the Earth for the production of Biofuel, biofuels. It is composed of two kinds of carbohydrate polymers, c ...

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 in the reticular ...

, a noradrenergic nucleus in the brain stem *

Long COVID Long may refer to: Measurement * Long, characteristic of something of great duration * Long, characteristic of something of great length * Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate * Longa (music), note value in early music mens ...

, a term for aftereffects occurring after recovering from and presumed to be caused by COVID-19

Ecology

Least Concern A least-concern species is a species that has been evaluated and categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wil ...

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

Electronics and computing

* .lc, 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 Macintosh LC is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1990 to March 1992. Overview The first in the Macintosh LC family, the LC was introduced with the Macintosh Classic (a repackaging ...

, the first computer in the Macintosh LC family * LC-type

optical fiber connector An optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector enables quicker connection and disconnection than splicing. They come in various types li ...

* LC circuit, in electronics, a circuit with an inductor and a capacitor *

Linear cryptanalysis In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis based on finding affine Affine may describe any of various topics concerned with connections or affinities. It may refer to: * Affine, a Affinity_(law)#Terminology, relat ...

, a form of cryptanalysis * Lines of code * Logic cell, in Field-programmable gate arrays *

Libera Chat Libera Chat, stylized as Libera.Chat, is an IRC network for free and open-source software projects. It was founded on 19 May 2021 by former Freenode staff members, after Freenode was taken over by Andrew Lee (entrepreneur), Andrew Lee, founder ...

, an IRC network

Vehicles

Toyota Land Cruiser The , also sometimes spelt as LandCruiser, is a series of four-wheel drive vehicles produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. It is Toyota's longest running series of models. , the sales of the Land Cruiser totalled more than 1 ...

, an SUV built by Toyota Motor Corporation *

Lexus LC The is a grand tourer manufactured by Lexus, a luxury division of Toyota. Based on the 2012 Lexus LF-LC, LF-LC Concept, it was revealed at the North American International Auto Show#2016, 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. ...

, 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. ...

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

Other uses in science and technology

* Launch Complex, a rocket launch site *

Leading coefficient In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor involved in some term of a polynomial, a series, or any other type of expression. It may be a number without units, in which case it is known as a numerical factor. It may also be a c ...

, 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 can flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a common direction as i ...

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

Other uses

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

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

* Leaving Certificate, the final course in the Irish secondary school system *

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

, 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 (more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (more formally '' minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing system ...

lettering *

Level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line or the road etc. crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, o ...

, on some maps, an intersection of a railway line and road at the same level * '' Loc. cit.'' (''loco citato''), in citations, used to repeat a citation, including the page to which the citation refers *

Long course An Olympic-size swimming pool is a swimming pool which conforms to the regulations for length, breadth, and depth made by World Aquatics (formerly FINA) for swimming at the Summer Olympics and the swimming events at the World Aquatics Champion ...

, an Olympic-size swimming pool *

Lord Chancellor The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ra ...

, a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom