MPC, Mpc or mpc may refer to:

Astronomy

Megaparsec The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to or (AU), i.e. . The parsec unit is obtained by the use of parallax and trigonometry, and ...

(Mpc), unit of length used in astronomy *

Minor Planet Center The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Funct ...

, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ** ''

Minor Planet Circular The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Function ...

s'' (MPC, M.P.C. or MPCs), astronomical publication from the Minor Planet Center

Businesses

Mai-Liao Power Corporation The Mai-Liao Power Corporation (MPC; ) is an independent power producer company in Taiwan. The total electricity installed capacity of the company is 1,800 MW and is produced using thermal power. The company is the subsidiary of Formosa Plastics ...

, Taiwan *

Model Products Corporation Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. MPC's main com ...

, model kit manufacturer *

Moving Picture Company The Moving Picture Company (MPC) is a British multinational company providing visual effects, CG, animation, motion design and other services for the film, TV, brand experience and advertising industries. Their artists have produced Academy ...

, a visual effects company, London, UK *

MPC MPC, Mpc or mpc may refer to: Astronomy * Megaparsec (Mpc), unit of length used in astronomy * Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ** ''Minor Planet Circulars'' (MPC, M.P.C. or MPCs), astronomical publication from the Minor ...

, maker of encrypted mobile phones

Computing and electronics

Media Player Classic Media Player Classic (MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32- and 64-bit Microsoft Wi ...

, a software media player *

MPC Computers MPC Corporation was a computer-hardware company based in Nampa, Idaho, United States. It was best known as a provider of desktops, notebooks, servers and services to customers in the federal, state and local government, education, small and m ...

, a former US computer maker *

Multimedia PC The Multimedia PC (MPC) is a recommended configuration for a personal computer (PC) with a CD-ROM drive. The standard was set and named by the Multimedia PC Marketing Council (MPMC), which was a working group of the Software Publishers Association ...

, a recommended configuration for a personal computer *

Multi-Personal Computer The Multi-Personal Computer (MPC), better known as the MPC 1600, is a line of desktop personal computers released by Columbia Data Products (CDP) starting in 1982. The original MPC, released in June 1982, was the first commercially released comp ...

, a line of desktop personal computers released by Columbia Data Products *

Multi Project Chip Multi-project chip (MPC), and multi-project wafer (MPW) semiconductor manufacturing arrangements allow customers to share tooling (like mask) and microelectronics wafer fabrication cost between several designs or projects. With the MPC arrangement, ...

, sharing costs across projects *

Musepack Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160–180 (manual set allows bitrates up to 320) kbit/s. It was formerly known as MPEGplus, MPEG+ or MP+ ...

, an audio codec * Command-line client for the

Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a free software, free and Open-source software, open-source music player Server (computing), server. It plays audio files, organizes playlists and maintains a music database. In order to interact with it, a Client (co ...

Akai MPC The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Center) is a series of Music workstation#Third generation music workstations, music workstations produced by Akai from 1988 onwards. MPCs combine Sampler (musical instrument), ...

, series of music workstations *

Secure multi-party computation Secure multi-party computation (also known as secure computation, multi-party computation (MPC) or privacy-preserving computation) is a subfield of cryptography with the goal of creating methods for parties to jointly compute a function over their ...

* MPC model, a theoretical model for massively parallel computation

Economics

Marginal propensity to consume In economics, the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is a metric that quantifies induced consumption, the concept that the increase in personal consumer spending ( consumption) occurs with an increase in disposable income (income after taxes a ...

Monetary Policy Committee (United Kingdom) The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for three and a half days, eight times a year, to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom (the Bank of England Base Rate). It is also respo ...

Government and politics

Central African Patriotic Movement Central African Patriotic Movement (MPC, ) is a rebel group in the Central African Republic based in the northwestern part of the country. History MPC was formed in July 2015 by Mahamat Al-Khatim. In October 2016, they were accused in taking ...

(MPC), a rebel group in the Central African Republic *

Member of Provincial Council Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in ...

, a member of provincial councils in Sri Lanka *

Mizoram People's Conference The Mizoram People's Conference is a regional political party in Mizoram, India. It was formed by Brig Thenphunga Sailo on 17 April 1975. Ṭhenphunga was the party chairman and Chief Minister of Mizoram from 1979 to 1984, and an army office ...

, a regional political party in Mizoram, India *

Model Penal Code The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a model act designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United States.MPC (Foreword). The MPC was a project of the American Law Institute (ALI), and was pu ...

Movement for Progressive Change The Movement for Progressive Change (MPC) is a political party in Liberia. History The MPC contested the 2011 presidential election. Their nominee was Simeon C. M. Freeman, alongside running mate Cyrus Cromah. After a failed referendum in August ...

, a political party in Liberia *

Multi-Party Charter The Multi-Party Charter (MPC), officially the Multi-Party Charter For South Africa (MPCSA), formerly known as the Moonshot Pact, was a pre-election agreement in South Africa that presented a united front in the 2024 South African general electio ...

, political party alliance in South Africa *

Myanmar Peace Centre The National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (; abbreviated NRPC), formerly known as the Myanmar Peace Centre (abbreviated MPC), was an organization to provide technical support to the peacemaking process in Myanmar (Burma), including implement ...

Military

Marine Personnel Carrier The Marine Personnel Carrier (MPC) is a wheeled armored personnel carrier under development for acquisition by the United States Marine Corps. The program was canceled in 2013 but resurrected in 2014 as part of phase one of the Amphibious Combat ...

, a US armored personnel carrier * Military payment certificate, US military currency *

Military Police Corps (United States) The United States Army Military Police Corps (USAMPC) is the uniformed military police, law enforcement branch of the United States Army. Investigations are conducted by Military Police investigators under the United States Army Provost Marshal ...

RAF Mount Pleasant RAF Mount Pleasant (also known as Mount Pleasant Airport, Mount Pleasant Complex or MPA) is a Royal Air Force station in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The airfield goes by the motto of "Defend the right" (while the m ...

, an RAF base in the Falkland Islands commonly referred to as the Mount Pleasant Complex

Places

Michael Polanyi Center The Michael Polanyi Center (MPC) at Baylor University, Texas, was the first center at a research university exclusively dedicated to the principle of intelligent design, primarily to host William Dembski, its director, and Bruce L. Gordon, its ...

, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, US * Mindanao Polytechnic College, Philippines * Milton Peters College, Sint Maarten (operated by the

Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden (SVOBE; "Foundation for the Advancement of Secondary Education Windward Islands") is a nonprofit organisation that operates two secondary schools on Sint Maarten Sint Maarten () is a Co ...

) *

Monterey Peninsula College Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) is a public community college in Monterey, California. Established in 1947, it is a part of the California Community Colleges system. There are two additional MPC campuses located in Marina, CA, and Seaside, ...

, California, US

Science and technology

Model predictive control Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced method of process control that is used to control a process while satisfying a set of constraints. It has been in use in the process industries in chemical plants and oil refineries since the 1980s. I ...

Magnetic particle clutch A magnetic particle clutch is a special type of electromagnetic clutch which does not use friction plates. Instead, it uses a fine powder of magnetically susceptible material (typically stainless steel) to mechanically link an otherwise free-wheeli ...

(or magnetic powder clutch) * Metal phthalocyanine (MPc), a

phthalocyanine Phthalocyanine () is a large, aromatic, macrocyclic, organic compound with the formula and is of theoretical or specialized interest in chemical dyes and photoelectricity. It is composed of four isoindole units linked by a ring of nitrogen ato ...

used in dyeing *

Milk protein concentrate Milk protein concentrate (MPC) is any type of concentrated milk product that contains 40–90% milk protein. The United States officially defines MPC as "any complete milk protein (casein plus lactalbumin) concentrate that is 40 percent or more p ...

* Multi-particle collision dynamics, a particle-based mesoscale simulation technique for complex fluids *

Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier A mitochondrion () is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. Mitochondria have a double membrane structure and use aerobic respiration to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is used ...

Other uses

* Most placeable candidate, recruiting industry term *

MPC Computers Bowl The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, previously the Humanitarian Bowl (1997–2003, 2007–2010) and the MPC Computers Bowl (2004–2006), is an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually since 1997 at Albertson ...

, a football bowl game *

Myanmar Press Council The Myanmar Press Council (; abbreviated MPC; formerly the Myanmar Core Press Council) is a media adjudication body which investigates and settles press disputes, compiles journalism ethics, and protects media personnel in Burma's media landscape. ...

Macedonian Orthodox Church The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Archdiocese of Ohrid (MOC-AO; ), or simply the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) or the Archdiocese of Ohrid (AO), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in North Macedonia. The Macedonian Orthodox Church ...

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