SMC may refer to:

Organisations

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE SMCS) is a professional society of the IEEE. It aims "to serve the interests of its members and the community at large by promoting the theory, practice, and interdisciplinary aspects of system ...

Special Metals Corporation Special Metals Corporation (SMC) is an American supplier of special refractory alloys and is headquartered in New Hartford, New York, United States. The company has operations in Perth, Western Australia; Albury, New South Wales; Huntington, Wes ...

, an alloy manufacturer *

Supreme Muslim Council The Supreme Muslim Council (SMC; ) was the highest body in charge of Muslim community affairs in Mandatory Palestine under British control. It was established to create an advisory body composed of Muslims and Christians with whom the High Comm ...

, former organization in Mandatory Palestine *

San Miguel Corporation San Miguel Corporation (), abbreviated as SMC, is a Philippine multinational conglomerate with headquarters in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila. The company is one of the largest and most diversified conglomerates in the Philippines. Originally fo ...

, a Philippine conglomerate *

Samsung Medical Center Samsung Medical Center (SMC; ) is a tertiary hospital located in Irwon-Dong of Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Kore ...

, a hospital in South Korea *

Salmaniya Medical Complex Salmaniya Medical Complex () is a public hospital situated in the Salmaniya district of Manama in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Established in 1957 and having a bed capacity of approximately 1,200 beds, it is the largest tertiary hospital in the coun ...

, a hospital in Bahrain *

Shanghai Municipal Council The Shanghai International Settlement () originated from the 1863 merger of the British and American enclaves in Shanghai, in which British and American citizens would enjoy extraterritoriality and consular jurisdiction under the terms of ...

, a government in Shanghai during late 19th to early 20th century *

SMC Corporation is a Japanese TOPIX Large 70 company founded in 1959 as Sintered Metal Corporation, which specializes in pneumatic control engineering to support industrial automation. SMC develops a broad range of control systems and equipment, such as dire ...

, a Japanese industrial automation company *

Social Marketing Company Social Marketing Company (aka SMC) is a Bangladeshi non-profit organisation which offers education and products for family planning, maternal and child health, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and AIDS. It is the largest soc ...

, a Bangladeshi non-profit organisation *

Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational mobility manufacturer headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. It manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal com ...

, a Japanese multinational corporation * Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, a software collective in India *

Scottish Mountaineering Club Established in 1889, the Scottish Mountaineering Club is a club for climbing and mountaineering in Scotland. History The Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) was formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in March 1889, as one of Scotland's first mountaineering ...

Sufi Muslim Council The Sufi Muslim Council (SMC) was a non-profit, non-governmental religious organization dedicated to working for the cause of Islam, launched on 19 July 2006. The group claims to represent United Kingdom, British Sufi Barelvi Muslims. Sufism is ...

, UK *

Singapore Mediation Centre Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) is a not-for-profit organisation structured as a company limited by the guarantee of the Singapore Academy of Law. History In 1996, a cross-profession committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) chaired ...

* Satyrs Motorcycle Club * The Singing Machine Company, a

karaoke is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone. Its musical content is an instrumental rendition of a well-known popular song. I ...

equipment provider

Education

* St. Michael's College, Iligan City, Philippines *

Santa Monica College Santa Monica College (SMC) is a Public university, public community college in Santa Monica, California. Founded as a Junior college#United States, junior college in 1929, SMC enrolls over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The coll ...

, California, US * Sargodha Medical College, Punjab, Pakistan *

Senior Military College In the United States, a senior military college (SMC) is one of six colleges that offer military Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) programs under , though many other schools offer military Reserve Officers' Training Corps under other sectio ...

, any of six US colleges that offer ROTC programs *

Southwestern Michigan College Southwestern Michigan College is a Public college, public community college with its main campus near Dowagiac, Michigan. It also has a campus just outside the city limits of Niles, Michigan. History Southwestern Michigan College was founded ...

, US *

Spartanburg Methodist College Spartanburg Methodist College (SMC) is a private college in Saxon, South Carolina, United States, with a Spartanburg, South Carolina, Spartanburg postal address. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and enrolled 1,128 studen ...

, South Carolina, US *

Stanley Medical College Stanley Medical College (SMC) is a public university, public medical school, medical college located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Though the original hospital is more than 200 years old, the medical college was formally established on 2 July ...

, Chennai, India *

Stewart's Melville College Stewart's Melville College (SMC) is all-boys' Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. Classes are all boys in the 1st to 5th years and co-educational in Sixth (final) year. It has a roll of about 750 p ...

, Edinburgh, Scotland *

Swiss Management Center Swiss Management Center (previously SMC University) is a private business school founded in 1985. It is based in Zug, Switzerland and has offices in Vienna and Buenos Aires. Accreditation In Switzerland, Swiss Management Center awards its o ...

, a university in Switzerland

Government and politics

Science Media Centre The Science Media Centre is a charitable company, first formed in 2002, two years after the United Kingdom House of Lords Select committee (United Kingdom), Select committee on Science and Technology's third report on "Science and Society" in 20 ...

, UK press office *

Space and Missile Systems Center Space Systems Command (SSC) is the United States Space Force's research and development, space development, Military acquisition, acquisition, space launch, launch, and Military logistics, logistics field command. It is headquartered at Los An ...

, the research and development command of the United States Space Force *

Surat Municipal Corporation Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) is the local civic body responsible for the administration of Surat, Gujarat which has come into being under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Act, 1949. The Surat Municipal Corporation was established on 2 Oct ...

, Gujarat, India *

Supreme Military Council (Ghana) The Supreme Military Council (SMC) was the ruling government of Ghana from 9 October 1975 to 4 June 1979. Its chairman was Colonel I.K. Acheampong. He was also the Head of state of Ghana due to his chairmanship. SMC I and II The period of t ...

, ruling Ghana from 1975–1979 *

Modern Centre Party The Modern Centre Party (, SMC) was a social-liberal political party in Slovenia led by Minister of Economical Development and Technology Zdravko Počivalšek, who succeeded former Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Miro Ce ...

(Stranka modernega centra), a Slovenian political party

Arts and entertainment

Music

Seattle Men's Chorus Seattle Men's Chorus (SMC) is an LGBTQ community chorus based in Seattle, Washington. The group was founded in 1979, and today is, along with Seattle Women's Chorus, the largest community choral organization in North America. SMC is a member of ...

, Washington, US *

SMC Recordings SMC Recordings is an independent hip hop record label established in 2005 in Del Valle, Texas, by Charles Vasquez, Micheal Luna, and Saroj Thapa. SMC primarily signs and distributes established hip hop artists. SMC grew out of a vision that Sa ...

, San Francisco, California, US

Television

Shaw Multicultural Channel Shaw Multicultural Channel (or simply Shaw Multicultural) was a Television in Canada, Canadian Multiculturalism in Canada, multicultural community channel (Canada), community channel operated by Shaw Communications. It was carried on Shaw's cable ...

, a cable television channel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada *

Southern Media Corporation The Southern Media Corporation (SMC) is a television network based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. It was founded on 18 January 2004 between the merge of Guangdong Television (GDTV) and Southern Television (TVS). At the same time the television networ ...

, a Cantonese television network in Guangdong, China

Other entertainment

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Secret Maryo Chronicles ''Secret Maryo Chronicles'' is a free and open-source 2D platform game first released in 2003. The game has been described as a ''Super Mario Bros.'' clone, but with a gameplay reminiscent of ''Super Mario World'' (1990). History ''Secret Ma ...

'', a video game

Science and technology

* Seasonal malaria chemoprevention *

Sheet moulding compound Sheet moulding compound (SMC) or sheet moulding composite is a ready to mould glass-fibre reinforced polyester material primarily used in compression moulding. The sheet is provided in rolls weighing up to 1000 kg. Alternatively the resin ...

or sheet moulding composite, a reinforced polyester material *

Small Magellanic Cloud The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25 isophotal diameter of about , and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 bill ...

, a galaxy near the Milky Way *

SMC protein SMC proteins represent a large family of ATPases that participate in many aspects of higher-order chromosome organization and dynamics. SMC proteins are widely conserved across bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. In eukaryotes, they function as the ...

(Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes) *

Supplementary motor cortex The supplementary motor area (SMA) is a part of the motor cortex of primates that contributes to the control of movement. It is located on the midline surface of the hemisphere just in front of (anterior to) the primary motor cortex leg representa ...

, a part of the sensorimotor cortex *

Smooth muscle cell Smooth muscle is one of the three major types of vertebrate muscle tissue, the others being skeletal and cardiac muscle. It can also be found in invertebrates and is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. It is non- striated, so-called becau ...

, a cell of involuntary non-striated muscle *

Symmetric monoidal category In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a symmetric monoidal category is a monoidal category (i.e. a category in which a "tensor product" \otimes is defined) such that the tensor product is symmetric (i.e. A\otimes B is, in a certain strict sen ...

, a mathematical structure involving serial and parallel composition

Computing and electronics

Sound and music computing Sound and music computing (SMC) is a research field that studies the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, model ...

* Apple SMC, a video codec *

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 ...

, a cryptography problem *

Sequential Monte Carlo method Particle filters, also known as sequential Monte Carlo methods, are a set of Monte Carlo algorithms used to find approximate solutions for filtering problems for nonlinear state-space systems, such as signal processing and Bayesian statistical ...

, a set of algorithms *

Self-modifying code In computer science, self-modifying code (SMC or SMoC) is source code, code that alters its own instruction (computer science), instructions while it is execution (computing), executing – usually to reduce the instruction path length and imp ...

, code which modifies itself at load or runtime *

Sliding mode control In control systems, sliding mode control (SMC) is a nonlinear control method that alters the dynamic system, dynamics of a nonlinear system by applying a discontinuous control signal (or more rigorously, a set-valued control signal) that forces th ...

, in control theory * SMC connector, used in radio-frequency circuits * Surface-mount component, in electronics * .smc, a file format used for Super Nintendo Entertainment System ROM images *

System Management Controller The System Management Controller (SMC) is a subsystem of Intel Macintosh computers. It is similar in function to the older SMU or PMU of PowerPC based Macintosh computers. Overview The SMC has roles in controlling thermal and power management, ba ...

, on Apple computers * DO-214AB, a variant of

DO-214 DO-214 is a standard that specifies a group of semiconductor packages for surface-mounted diodes A diode is a two- terminal electronic component that conducts electric current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance). It has lo ...

semiconductor package

Other uses

* Semarang Poncol railway station, Semarang, Indonesia (station code: SMC) *

Serbia and Montenegro Cup The Serbia and Montenegro Cup was an association football knockout cup tournament of Serbia and Montenegro played between 1992 and 2006, after which Serbia and Montenegro became separate nations. The competition was the continuation of the old ...

*Senior Mathematical Challenge, for students run by the

United Kingdom Mathematics Trust The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT) is a charity founded in 1996 to help with the education of children in mathematics within the UK. History The national mathematics competitions had existed prior to the formation of the trust, bu ...

Single-member constituency A single-member district or constituency is an electoral district represented by a single officeholder. It contrasts with a multi-member district, which is represented by multiple officeholders. In some countries, such as Australia and India ...

Speak Mandarin Campaign The Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC; ) is an initiative by the Government of Singapore to encourage the Chinese Singaporean population to speak Standard Mandarin Chinese, one of the four official languages of Singapore. Launched on 7 September 19 ...

, Singapore *

Stade Malherbe Caen Stade Malherbe Caen (; commonly known as SM Caen, Malherbe, or simply Caen) is a Football in France, French professional football team, based in the city of Caen in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy, that competes in the Championnat Na ...

, a French football club {{disambiguation