GC
Appearance
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GC may stand for:
People, jobs, characters
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- The GC, the alter ego of English media personality and businesswoman Gemma Collins (born 1981)
- General contractor is sometimes abbreviated as this.
- Genetic Counselor, health professionals who primarily counsel individuals on risks related to various hereditary diseases.
- GC (television mascot) , a 1980s Mexican television mascot for XHGC Canal 5, an animated purple cat
- GC (video game character), Blaster Learning System character
Places
[edit]- Galactic Center, Milky Way Galaxy
- GC-1, GC-2, GC-3, GC-23, highways in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Computing
[edit]- Graphics card, a common component in computers
- Garbage collection (computer science), a form of automatic memory management
- GenerativeComponents, computer-aided design software
- Global Catalog, a global listing of all objects in an Active Directory forest
- General Category of a Unicode symbol, see Unicode character property#General Category
- gc, the Go compiler
Entertainment
[edit]- The GC, a New Zealand television series
- GameCube, a home video game console
- Games Convention, an annual video games event held in Leipzig, Germany
- Good Charlotte, American rock band
Organizations
[edit]- Grasshopper Club Zürich, a Swiss sports club
- Green Council, an environmental organization based in Hong Kong
- Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force
- Guardia Civil (Civil Guard (Spain)), the civil guard or gendarmerie in Spain
- Government of Canada (.gc.ca)
- Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen, Actuarial Association of Europe, established in 1978
- Grinnell College, a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa
Science
[edit]- GC (gene), encodes the vitamin D-binding protein also known as gc-globulin
- gc, a unit conversion factor used in engineering
- GC-content, a sequence composition of DNA molecules in genetics
- Gallocatechol, a plant polyphenol molecule
- Gas chromatography, in analytical chemistry
- Germinal center, an area in a lymph node
- Gigacoulomb, an SI symbol for electric charge equal to 109 coulomb
- Gigacycles per second (Gc), an older term for gigahertz
- Granular component, a component of the nucleolus
- Glass carbomer, a type of dental composite filling
- Glucocorticoids, a class of steroid hormones
- Guanylate cyclase, an enzyme catalysing the synthesis of cyclic-GMP from GTP
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae or gonococcus, the causative agent of gonorrhea
- Clayey gravel, in the Unified Soil Classification System
- Crystallized intelligence (abbreviated Gc), a part of fluid and crystallized intelligence
- Library of Congress Classification:Class G, subclass GC -- Oceanography
- GC, star designation from the Boss General Catalogue
Transportation
[edit]- Gambia International Airlines (IATA code
GC
), the national airline of the Gambia - Georgia Central Railway, a class III railroad in Georgia, United States
- Grand Central, a railway operator in England
- Gibraltar to Casablanca convoy (convoy code GC) in World War II
- GC, Mazda's first front-wheel drive midsize car platform
- GC, ID code for the first generation Subaru Impreza sedan
Other
[edit]- gc (digraph), in some languages
- Gender critical, alternate term for Trans-exclusionary radical feminism
- George Cross, the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom
- Glivenko–Cantelli theorem, in probability
- GC, the DIN code for pigment-coated, virgin mechanical pulp paperboard
- General classification, the overall standing on time in multi-stage bicycle races
- geocaching, a technology-based outdoor activity
- Golden Corral, American restaurant chain
- Group chat, a term used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing.