PAC

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PAC may refer to:

Contents 1 Business 2 Education 3 Entertainment 4 Politics 5 Technology 6 Mathematics 7 Medicine 8 Other 9 See also

[edit] Business

• Pacific Aerospace Corporation, an aircraft manufacturing company based in Hamilton, New Zealand
• Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, a military aircraft manufacturing facility in Pakistan
• Planned Amortization Class, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation
• Polar Air Cargo, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, USA

[edit] Education

• Partnerships in Academic Communities, a program in Miami, Florida that awards scholarships to those enrolled
• Prince Alfred College, an independent day and boarding school for boys, located in Adelaide, South Australia
• Pac-10, a college athletic Pacific-10 Conference, which operates in the western United States
• Panasonic Academic Challenge, a 1988 establishment
• Pocket Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Indiana
• Postgraduate Applications Centre, an organization in Ireland
• Presidents' Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division III athletic conference of small private colleges
• Physician's assistant-Certified

[edit] Entertainment

• Tupac Shakur, an American hip-hop artist
• Pan Asian Coalition, one of the two playable factions in the computer game Battlefield 2142
• Performing arts center, a multi-use performance space
• Portland Art Center, an exhibition space in Portland, Oregon
• X-Pac, an American professional wrestler
• PAC, British professional wrestler Ben Satterly

[edit] Politics

• Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa
• Partido Acción Ciudadana, a political party in Costa Rica
• Polish American Congress, a national umbrella organization
• Political action committee, a group organized to elect or defeat political candidates
• Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom), a parliamentary committee in the UK and other westminster systems responsible for overseeing government expenditures
• Public Affairs Committee (Malawi), a political organization in Malawi
• Proletari Armati per il Comunismo, an Italian far-left terrorist group of the 1970s

[edit] Technology

• p1-derived artificial chromosome, genomic research
• PAC CT/4, a basic training aircraft made by Pacific Aerospace
• Parachute and Cable, a British anti-aircraft weapon of WWII
• Perceptual Audio Coding, an audio compression algorithm
• Porting Authorisation Code, a unique identifier which telephone network providers issue to a customer so they can port their number to another network
• Powdered activated carbon, used as a sorbent
• Presentation-abstraction-control, a type of design pattern used in software engineering
• Probably approximately correct learning, a framework of learning that was proposed by Leslie Valiant in his paper A theory of the learnable
• Programmable automation controller, a compact controller that combines the features of a PC-based control system with that of a programmable logic controller
• Proxy auto-config, a web browser technology
• Patriot Advanced Capability, a software-only upgrade of the MIM-104 Patriot
• Public Access Catalog

[edit] Mathematics

• Pseudo algebraically closed field, a field with geometric features, namely each variety over it has a rational point

[edit] Medicine

• Plasma aldosterone concentrations
• Premature atrial contraction, a type of premature heart beat or irregular heart beat or arrhythmia which start in the upper two chambers of the heart
• Primary auditory cortex, a brain region that is heavily involved with the processing of auditory (sound) information
• Pulmonary artery catheterization

[edit] Other

• Pac (family), a noble family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• Pasukan Aturgerak Cepat, a Malaysian armed forces unit
• Parent-Adult-Child, a model in transactional analysis
• Perfect authentic cadence, in music

[edit] See also

• Pac-Man (disambiguation)
• Pacific (disambiguation)
• Primitive Apostolic Christianity
• Public Affairs Council (disambiguation)