NAC may refer to:

Arts

National Arts Centre The National Arts Centre (NAC) () is a Arts centre, performing arts organization in Ottawa, Ontario, along the Rideau Canal. It is based in the eponymous National Arts Centre (building), National Arts Centre building. History The NAC was one ...

, Canada *

National Arts Club The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the ''New York Times'', to "stimulate, foster, and promote publi ...

, New York, United States *

National Arts Council, Singapore The National Arts Council (NAC) is a statutory board established on 15 October 1991 to oversee the development of arts in Singapore. It is under the purview of the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. The NAC provides grants, scholarship ...

, a statutory board of the Singapore government * Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Polish National Digital Archives *

New adult contemporary Smooth jazz is a radio format that includes songs by artists such as George Benson, Pat Metheny, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Sade, Robin Thicke, Anita Baker, Basia, Dave Koz and Chuck Mangione. It began in the 1980s as "adult alternative" or NAC ( ...

, a name once used for the smooth jazz radio format

Aviation

* NAC Air, a former Native owned air carrier, Canada * NAC Fieldmaster, British agricultural aircraft * NAC, the IATA code for

Naracoorte Airport Naracoorte Airport is located south of the town centre in Naracoorte, South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total la ...

in South Australia, Australia * Namibia Airports Company, operator of eight airports in Namibia * National Air Communications, a British government organisation 1939–1940 * National Airways Corporation (South Africa), a South African commercial aviation company * Nauru Air Corporation, the national airline of the Pacific island Republic of Nauru * Nepal Airlines Corporation, the national airline of Nepal. previously known as RNAC ( Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation) *

New Zealand National Airways Corporation New Zealand National Airways Corporation, popularly known as NAC, established by the New Zealand National Airways Act, 1945, was the national domestic airline of New Zealand until 1978 when it amalgamated with New Zealand's international airli ...

, the former national domestic airline of New Zealand *

Northern Air Cargo Northern Air Cargo, LLC (NAC) is an American cargo airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. NAC operates a small fleet of Boeing 737-300, Boeing 737-400 and Boeing 737-800 freighter aircraft within the state of Alaska as well as widebody ...

, a cargo airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.

Organisations

Companies

* NAC Architecture, a U.S. design firm *

Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation Nanjing Automobile is a state-owned enterprise with a history that dates from 1947,

, a Chinese subsidiary of SAIC * Nickel Asia Corporation, largest producer of nickel ore in the Philippines *

Nordic Aviation Capital Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) was the world leader in regional aircraft leasing and expanded into larger narrow body aircraft as well. NAC was headquartered in Ireland, with offices in Singapore, Denmark, Dubai and Toronto. It had over 60 custom ...

, Danish based airline lessor * North American Communications, a defunct U.S. direct mailer

Education

Nakanihon Automotive College , NAC, is a private junior college in Sakahogi, Gifu, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extend ...

, a private junior college in Sakahogi, Gifu, Japan *

National Academy of Construction National Academy of Construction or NAC Hyderabad is an education institution for development of all types of construction resources, technologies and methodologies for fast-track completion of projects. History The National Academy of Constr ...

, an Indian college *

Nowra Anglican College The Nowra Anglican College, (abbreviated as NAC), is an independent Anglican co-educational early learning, primary, and secondary day school, located on the corner of West Bunbera Street and the Princes Highway, in Bomaderry in the South C ...

, an Anglican College based in Nowra, Australia *

Nunavut Arctic College Nunavut Arctic College (, , Inuinnaqtun: ''Nunavunmi Inirnirit Iliharviat'') is a public community college in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. The college has several campuses throughout the territory and operates as a public agency (Crown co ...

, a nursing school in Canada

Politics

New Administrative Capital New Administrative Capital (NAC) () is a New Urban Communities Authority, new urban community east of New Cairo in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite city of Cairo. As of May 2023, 14 ministries and government entities have been relocated ...

, the new capital center being built to replace Cairo as Egypt's government center *

National Aboriginal Conference The National Aboriginal Conference (NAC) was a national organisation established by the Australian Government to represent Indigenous Australians, that is Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The NAC was originally establi ...

, Australian governmental body 1973–1985 *

National Administrative Council The National Administrative Council (NAC) was the executive council of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), a British socialist party which was active from 1893 until 1975. Creation The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was founded at a conference in ...

, former governing body of the Independent Labour Party in the UK *

National Advisory Council The National Advisory Council (NAC) was an advisory body set up by the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2004 to advise the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. Sonia Gandhi served as its chairperson for much of the tenur ...

, an advisory body set up to monitor the implementation of the UPA government's manifesto in India *

New Agenda Coalition The New Agenda Coalition (NAC), composed of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and South Africa, is a geographically dispersed group of middle power countries seeking to build an international consensus to make progress on nuclear disarmame ...

, an international group advocating nuclear disarmament *

North Atlantic Council The North Atlantic Council (NAC) is the principal political decision-making body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), consisting of permanent representatives of its member countries. It was established by wikisource:North Atlantic ...

, the most senior political governing body of NATO *

Nyasaland African Congress The Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) was an organisation that evolved into a political party in Nyasaland during the colonial period. The NAC was suppressed in 1959, but was succeeded in 1960 by the Malawi Congress Party, which went to on decisiv ...

, a political party in Malawi

Religion

Native American Church The Native American Church (NAC), also known as Peyotism and Peyote Religion, is a Syncretism, syncretic Native American religion that teaches a combination of traditional Native Americans in the United States, Native American beliefs and eleme ...

, the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans *

New Apostolic Church The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a Christian denomination, Christian church of the Catholic Apostolic Church, Irvingian tradition. Its origins are in 1863, in the split from the Catholic Apostolic Church during a schism in Hamburg, Ger ...

, a chiliastic church *

Pontifical North American College The Pontifical North American College (NAC) is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic educational institution in Rome, Italy, that prepares seminarians to become priests in the United States and elsewhere. The NAC also provides a residence for Prie ...

, an American seminary in Rome, Italy

Other organizations

* National Abortion Campaign, a former UK campaigning group for abortion rights *

National Action Committee on the Status of Women The National Action Committee on the Status of Women was a Canadian feminist activist organization that existed from 1971 to 2007. History It was founded in 1971 as a pressure group to lobby for the implementation of the 167 recommendations m ...

, a Canadian feminist activist organization * National Agricultural Centre, now renamed Stoneleigh Park, UK

Media

* NAC TV, Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada *

Newspaper Agency Corporation The Newspaper Agency Corporation Inc. (or NAC or NACorp) is a printing, delivery, and advertising company. It is jointly owned by the '' Deseret Morning News'' and ''The Salt Lake Tribune'', the two major daily newspapers in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...

, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S

Science and technology

Medicine

N-Acetylcarnosine ''N''-Acetylcarnosine (NAC) (not to be confused with N-Acetylcysteine, which is also abbreviated "NAC") is a naturally occurring Chemical compound, compound chemically related to the dipeptide carnosine. The NAC molecular structure is identical t ...

, a compound related to carnosine *

N-Acetylcysteine ''N''-acetylcysteine, also known as Acetylcysteine and NAC, is a mucolytics that is used to treat paracetamol (acetaminophen) overdose and to loosen thick mucus in individuals with chronic bronchopulmonary disorders, such as pneumonia and ...

, a medication *

Nucleus accumbens The nucleus accumbens (NAc or NAcc; also known as the accumbens nucleus, or formerly as the ''nucleus accumbens septi'', Latin for ' nucleus adjacent to the septum') is a region in the basal forebrain rostral to the preoptic area of the hypo ...

, a region in the brain * N-Acetyl as in GlcNAc and GalNAc

Other science and technology

Natural Area Code Natural Area Code, also called Universal Address, is a geocode generated by the Natural Area Coding System - a public domain geocode system for identifying an area (also a location when the area is relatively small enough) anywhere on the Earth ...

, a geocode system * Network Access Code, for public safety radios *

Network access control Network access control (NAC) is an approach to computer security that attempts to unify endpoint security technology (such as antivirus, host intrusion prevention, and vulnerability assessment), user or system authentication and network security ...

Network Admission Control Network Admission Control (NAC) refers to Cisco's version of network access control, which restricts access to the network based on identity or security posture. When a network device (switch, router, wireless access point, DHCP server, etc.) i ...

North Atlantic Current The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward. Characteristics The NAC ...

Sports

Netherlands

NAC Basketbal NAC Basketbal was a Dutch basketball club based in Breda. The club was the basketball section of the Association football, football club NAC Breda, which aimed to make itself a multi-sports club. The team was founded in 2000, along with outspoken ...

, basketball club based in Breda, Netherland *

NAC Breda NAC Breda (), often simply known as NAC, is a Dutch professional football club, based in Breda, Netherlands. NAC Breda play in the Rat Verlegh Stadium, named after their most important player, Antoon 'Rat' Verlegh. They play in the Eredivisi ...

, football club from Breda, Netherlands * NAC Stadion, a multi-use stadium in Breda, Netherlands

United States

Nashville Athletic Club The Nashville Athletic Club (NAC) was a sports club for young men founded in Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. I ...

, a sports club for young men in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. *

North Atlantic Conference The North Atlantic Conference (NAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. Member schools are primarily small liberal arts colleges in the New England state ...

, a U.S. collegiate athletic conference based in New England, U.S. * Northern Athletics Conference, former name of the U.S. collegiate athletic conference based in the Midwest U.S.

Other places

* CA Oradea, football club based in Oradea, Bihor County, Romania * Nacional Atlético Clube (disambiguation), several Brazilian football teams *

National Aquatic Centre The National Aquatic Centre (NAC) () is an indoor aquatics facility in Blanchardstown, Fingal, Ireland. The State-owned complex houses a 50-metre swimming pool with an associated diving pool, an aquapark and leisure pool, and a fitness centre. ...

, indoor aquatics facility in Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland *

Netherlands Antilles Championship Netherlands Antilles Championship or Kopa Antiano was the premier association football competition in the Netherlands Antilles, overseen by the Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie. The championship was contested by the top teams of the Curaçao L ...

, premier association football competition in the Netherlands Antilles (defunct) * North America Challenge, a

laser tag Laser tag is a recreational shooting sport where participants use infrared-emitting light guns to tag designated targets. Infrared-sensitive signaling devices are commonly worn by each player to register hits and are sometimes integrated wit ...

competition in the US and Canada

Other uses

* Nam Cheong station, of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR), Hong Kong * New Atlantic Charter, a 2021 agreement between the UK and US * North America and the Caribbean, see

List of country groupings Groups of countries or regions are often referred to by a single term (word, phrase, or abbreviation). The origins of such terms include political alliances, intergovernmental organizations, business market areas, and mere colloquialism. ...

North American Confederacy The ''North American Confederacy'' is an alternate history series of novels created by L. Neil Smith. The series begins with ''The Probability Broach'' and there are eight sequels. The stories take place in a fictional country of the same na ...

, a fictional government in the novel ''The Probability Broach'' by L. Neil Smith *

Notified Area Council A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...

or nagar panchayat, one of the three types of urban system in India