PIC or pic may refer to:

Places

Penbay International Circuit Penbay International Circuit (PIC; ) is a motor sport circuit in Donggang, Pingtung, Donggang Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. The circuit is long with widths from 12m to 20m. It has five configurations. It officially opened on 9 October 2011 ...

, or PIC, a motor track circuit in Pingtung County, Taiwan * Pic River, in Ontario, Canada * Picayune (Amtrak station) (Amtrak station code PIC), Mississippi, United States * Pic, abbreviation for

Pictor Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, located between the star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name Equuleus Pictoris (the "painter's easel"). ...

, a southern constellation * Pacific island countries

People

* Anna Pic (born 1978), French politician *

Anne-Sophie Pic Anne-Sophie Pic (, born 12 July 1969) is a French chef best known for regaining three Michelin stars for her restaurant, Maison Pic, in southeast France. She is the fourth female chef to win three Michelin stars, and was named the Best Female ...

(born 1969), French cook *

Charles Pic Charles Maurice Marcel Pic (; born 15 February 1990) is a French former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from to . Born and raised in Montélimar, Montélimar, Drôme, Pic began kart racing, karting aged 13 wi ...

(born 1990), French Formula One driver *

Maurice Pic Maurice Pic (23 March 1866, in Marrigny near Digoin – 29 December 1957, in Les Guerreaux) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He contributed to Mary-Louis Fauconnet's ''Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de Saône-et- ...

(1866–1957), French entomologist * Tina Pic (born 1966), American racing cyclist

Enterprises and organizations

* PIC, a mark used by the former Phoenix Iron Company * Pickleball International Committee, a governing body for the sport of pickleball * Poison information center, a medical facility *

Public Investment Corporation The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) is a South African state-owned entity (SOC) with R2.693 trillion (USD 142 Billion) of assets under management as of 31 March 2024. It is Africa's largest asset manager. Established in 1911, it hold ...

, a South African state-owned asset management firm

Government and politics

Palestinian Information Center The Palestinian Information Center (PIC; ) is a Hamas-affiliated Palestinian news website and network that was established first in Arabic on 1 December 1997 and later in English on 1 January 1998. History The Palestinian Information Center is a ...

, a news website *

Partido Independiente de Color The (PIC) was a Cuban political party composed almost entirely of African former slaves. It was founded in 1908 by African veterans of the Cuban War of Independence. In 1912, the PIC led a revolt in the eastern province of Oriente. The revo ...

, a former Cuban political party *

Peace Implementation Council The Peace Implementation Council (PIC) is an international body charged with implementing the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Council was established at an implementation conference held in London, United Kingdom, on Dece ...

, an international body charged with a peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Population Investigation Committee The Population Investigation Committee is a United Kingdom social research group founded in 1936 by the council of the British Eugenics Society. Its original members included David V. Glass, Griselda Rowntree and J.W.B. Douglas. Since the seco ...

, a United Kingdom social research group founded in 1936 *

Provincial Iraqi Control Provincial may refer to: Government & Administration * Provincial capitals, an administrative sub-national capital of a country * Provincial city (disambiguation) * Provincial minister (disambiguation) * Provincial Secretary, a position in Cana ...

, an objective of the Iraqi Government and Multi-National Forces in Iraq *

Prison–industrial complex The prison–industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the " military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (such as prisons, jails, dete ...

, attribution of the U.S.'s high incarceration rate to profit *

Presidential Inaugural Committee Between seventy-three and seventy-nine days after the presidential election, the president-elect of the United States is inaugurated as president by taking the presidential oath of office. The inauguration takes place for each new presidentia ...

, in the U.S. *

Pakistan Information Commission The Pakistan Information Commission (PIC) operates as an independent and self-governing entity, established in accordance with Section 18 of the Right of Access to Information Act 2017. Its primary function is to create systems and processes that ...

Law and policy

Plan inclusive counterplan This is a glossary of policy debate terms. Affirmative In policy debate (also called ''cross-examination debate'' in some circuits, namely the University Interscholastic League of Texas), the ''Affirmative'' is the team that affirms the resol ...

, a term in policy debate *

Presubscribed interexchange carrier An interexchange carrier (IXC), in U.S. legal and regulatory terminology, is a type of telecommunications company, commonly called a long-distance telephone company. It is defined as any carrier that provides services across multiple local acces ...

, or predesignated interexchange carrier, the long-distance telephone company to which calls from a subscriber line are routed by default *

Prior informed consent Informed consent is an applied ethics principle that a person must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about accepting risk. Pertinent information may include risks and benefits of treatments, alternative treatme ...

, a legal condition

Medicine and biochemistry

Peripherally inserted central catheter A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC or PICC line), also called a percutaneous indwelling central catheter or longline, is a form of intravenous access that can be used for a prolonged period of time (e.g., for long chemotherapy regi ...

, an intravenous access *

Pre-integration complex The pre-integration complex (PIC) is a nucleoprotein complex of viral genetic material and associated viral and host proteins which is capable of inserting a viral genome into a host genome. The PIC forms after uncoating of a viral particle after ...

, a complex of proteins and genetic material used by the virus HIV *

Transcription preinitiation complex The preinitiation complex (abbreviated PIC) is a complex of approximately 100 proteins that is necessary for the transcription (genetics), transcription of protein-coding genes in eukaryotes and archaea. The preinitiation complex positions RNA po ...

, a large complex of proteins necessary for transcription of protein-coding genes in eukaryotes

Technology

Particle-in-cell In plasma physics, the particle-in-cell (PIC) method refers to a technique used to solve a certain class of partial differential equations. In this method, individual particles (or fluid elements) in a Lagrangian frame are tracked in continuous ...

, a technique used to solve certain partial differential equations *

Personal Internet Communicator The Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) is a consumer device released by AMD in 2004 as part of AMD's 50x15 Initiative to enable people in emerging countries access to the internet. The PIC was deployed by Internet service providers (ISPs) in s ...

, a 2004 consumer device designed for low-cost access to the internet *

Photonic integrated circuit A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a microchip containing two or more photonic components that form a functioning circuit. This technology detects, generates, transports, and processes light. Photonic integrated ci ...

, a device that integrates multiple photonic functions * pic language, a domain-specific language for specifying diagrams *

PIC microcontroller PIC (usually pronounced as /pɪk/) is a family of microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology, derived from the PIC1640 originally developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics Division. The name PIC initially referred to ''Peripher ...

, a family of products made by Microchip Technology * PICtor PIC image format, a file format developed in the 1980s for PCPaint *

Pixar Image Computer The Pixar Image Computer is a graphics computer originally developed by the Graphics Group, the computer division of Lucasfilm, which was later renamed Pixar. Aimed at commercial and scientific high-end visualization markets, such as medicine, ge ...

, a 1980s high-end graphics computer * Plastic identification code, a symbol used to identify types of plastic for recycling * "Plastic- insulated conductor", a common type of electrical wire or cable ** Here the "P" in the "PIC" acronym is often taken to represent words or phrases besides, or in addition to, "plastic". Frequently these are various types of plastic, as the names of many begin with . * Polymorphic inline cache, a virtual machine optimization technology *

Position-independent code In computing, position-independent code (PIC) or position-independent executable (PIE) is a body of machine code that executes properly regardless of its memory address. PIC is commonly used for shared libraries, so that the same library code c ...

, machine instruction code that executes properly regardless of where in memory it resides * Programmable integrated circuit, an electronic component *

Programmable interrupt controller In computing, a programmable interrupt controller (PIC) is an integrated circuit that helps a microprocessor (or CPU) handle interrupt requests (IRQs) coming from multiple different sources (like external I/O devices) which may occur simultane ...

, an integrated circuit type

Other uses

* Particulate inorganic carbon, found in the ocean *

Paid-in capital Paid-in capital (also paid-up capital and contributed capital) is capital that is contributed to a corporation by investors by purchase of stock from the corporation, the primary market, not by purchase of stock in the open market fro ...

, contributed to a corporation by investors on top of the par value of capital stock * Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention, an international instrument between countries and pharmaceutical inspection authorities *

Philippine Independent Church The Philippine Independent Church (; ), officially referred to by its Philippine Spanish name (IFI) and colloquially called the Aglipayan Church, is an independent catholic Christian denomination, in the form of a nationalist church, in the ...

, a Christian denomination * ''Pic'' (novel), 1971, by Jack Kerouac *

Picard group In mathematics, the Picard group of a ringed space ''X'', denoted by Pic(''X''), is the group of isomorphism classes of invertible sheaves (or line bundles) on ''X'', with the group operation being tensor product. This construction is a global ver ...

, in algebraic geometry *

Piccadilly line The Piccadilly line is a Deep level underground, deep-level London Underground line running between the west and the north of London. It has two western branches which split at Acton Town tube station, Acton Town and serves 53 stations. The li ...

, or "The Pic", on the London Underground *

Pilot in command The pilot in command (PIC) of an aircraft is the person aboard an aircraft who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the captain in a typical two- or three- pilot aircrew, or "pilot" if there is only ...

, the person aboard an aircraft responsible for its operation and safety during flight * PIC, an abbreviation used in fandom for the American television series '' Star Trek: Picard'' * ICAO airline code for

Pacific Airlines Pacific Airlines Joint Stock Aviation Company (, operating as Pacific Airlines) is a low-cost airline and ground services provider headquartered in Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with its primary operating base at Tan Son Nhat ...