LC explained

LC or Lc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Library of Congress Classification, a system of library classification

Gaming and play

• Lego Chess, a Lego-based chess video game
• Lego City, a theme of Lego
• Lego Creator, a theme of Lego
• Lego Creator (video game), a Lego video game
• Liberty City (Grand Theft Auto), a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto computer and video game series

Music

• LC (album), 1981 album by The Durutti Column
• Lacuna Coil, an Italian gothic metal band
• Living Colour, an American hard rock band formed in New York
• Los Campesinos!, a British indie-rock band formed in Cardiff

In other media

• Licensed Companion, from the In Death novels of J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
• Shop LC, a 24/7 American shopping television channel

Businesses, organisations, and government agencies

Government agencies

• Irish Land Commission (or simply Land Commission), a rent fixing commission by the Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881
• Library of Congress, the de facto United States national library
• Liquor Control, including the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission
• Local Council (Uganda), a form of local elected government within the districts of Uganda
• Technical Department of the Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany) in charge of research and development (LC, but more often referred to as C-amt)
• Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway, a state-operated commuter rail service in the Kanpur-Lucknow region of India

Religious organizations

• Latin Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church
• Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious order of priests
• Liberty Counsel, a legal organization dedicated to advancing specific religious freedoms

Schools

• Lafayette College, a private college in Easton, Pennsylvania, US
• Laguna College, a non-sectarian, private school in San Pablo City, Laguna
• Launceston College (Tasmania), a public senior-secondary school in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Letran College in Manila, Philippines
• Lewis and Clark Community College, a community college in Godfrey, Illinois, US
• Lomagundi College, an independent, boarding school in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
• Loomis Chaffee, a coeducational boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut, US
• Lynchburg College, a private liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia, US
• Lynden Christian Schools, a private school in Lynden, Washington, US

Other businesses and organizations

• Latvian Way, a political party of Latvia
• LC Perú, a Peruvian airline
• Lean Cuisine, a brand of microwaveable meals
• LendingClub, NYSE ticker symbol LC
• Lotta Continua, a former far-left extra-parliamentary organization in Italy
• Varig Logística (IATA airline designator LC)

Economics and finance

• Letter of credit, a document issued to provide a payment undertaking
• Local currency, also referred to as Local Currency Unit or LCU

People

• Lorne Cardinal, stage and television actor
• Leonora Carrington, Mexican painter/surrealist
• Liz Claiborne, fashion designer
• Les Claypool, bassist best known for his work with Primus
• Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist
• Laveranues Coles, New York Jets wide receiver
• Lauren Conrad, fashion designer and former reality TV star on The Hills and Laguna Beach
• Le Corbusier, architect, and a series of furniture designed by same

Places

• Las Cruces, New Mexico, US
• LC, Swansea, a Leisure Centre in Wales
• Leicester, a city in the United Kingdom
• Lewis Center, Ohio, United States
• Little Compton, Rhode Island, US
• Lučenec, a town in Slovakia
• Saint Lucia, ISO 3166-1 country code

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• × Laeliocattleya, a genus of orchids
• Langerhans cell, a tissue-resident macrophage
• Lethal concentration, a means to quantitatively indicate a gas or aerosol hazard
• Lignocellulose
• Locus coeruleus, a noradrenergic nucleus in the brain stem
• Long COVID, a term for aftereffects occurring after recovering from and presumed to be caused by COVID-19

Ecology

• Least Concern, a World Conservation Union "Red List of Threatened Species" category

Electronics and computing

• .lc, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia
• Macintosh LC family, a range of personal computers manufactured by Apple in the early 1990s
• Macintosh LC, the first computer in the Macintosh LC family
• LC-type optical fiber connector
• LC circuit, in electronics, a circuit with an inductor and a capacitor
• Linear cryptanalysis, a form of cryptanalysis
• Lines of code
• Logic cell, in Field-programmable gate arrays
• Libera Chat, an IRC network

Vehicles

• Toyota Land Cruiser, an SUV built by Toyota Motor Corporation
• Lexus LC, a grand tourer built by Toyota Motor Corporation
• Geely LC, a hatchback car
• Landing craft, used to convey infantry and vehicles to shore in an amphibious assault

Other uses in science and technology

• Launch Complex, a rocket launch site
• Leading coefficient, in mathematics
• Leeuwin Current, a warm ocean current
• Liquid chromatography, an analytical chemistry technique
• Liquid crystal, a phase of matter with properties between a solid and a liquid state, commonly used in displays

Other uses

• Law corporation, a special type of limited liability corporation available for single attorneys in California
• Leaving Certificate, the final course in the Irish secondary school system
• Letter case, used in orthography and typography to denote the difference between capital and non-capital letters
  • Lower case lettering
• Level crossing, on some maps, an intersection of a railway line and road at the same level
• Loc. cit. (loco citato), in citations, used to repeat a citation, including the page to which the citation refers
• Long course, an Olympic-size swimming pool
• Lord Chancellor, a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom

See also

• LCLC (disambiguation)
• LCC (disambiguation)
• LCS (disambiguation)
• LLC (disambiguation)