GC

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GC may stand for:

Arts and entertainment

• GC (character), a fictitious cat on 1980s Mexican television
• The GC, a New Zealand television series
• GameCube, a video game console
• Games Convention, held in Leipzig, Germany
• Ghetto Concept, a Canadian hip-hop group
• Global Community, the fictional world government/state described in the Left Behind series
• Good Charlotte, a rock band from Maryland, United States
• Gunnerkrigg Court, a webcomic

Businesses and organizations

Educational institutions

• Galveston College, a community college in Texas, United States
• Girls' College, an independent day and boarding high school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
• Gloucestershire College, a college in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
• Goodenough College, a college in London, United Kingdom
• Government College (disambiguation), one of various colleges
• Gordon College (Massachusetts), an institution of higher education in Wenham, Massachusetts, United States
• Goshen College, a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana, United States
• Grayson College, a community college in Texas, United States
• Greenville College, a college located in Greenville, Illinois, United States

Law enforcement and military units

• Groupe de Chasse, a French air force unit
• Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force
• Civil Guard (Spain) (Spanish: Guardia Civil), the civil guard or gendarmerie in Spain

Other businesses and organizations

• Gambia International Airlines (IATA code), the national airline of the Gambia
• General Congregation, the highest authority in the Society of Jesus
• Grasshopper Club Zürich, a Swiss sports club
• Green Council, an environmental organization based in Hong Kong
• Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen (Actuarial Association of Europe), established in 1978
• Guitar Center, the world's largest chain of musical instrument retailers
• Guitar Craft, an association of guitarists inspired by Robert Fripp (King Crimson)

Law

• General counsel, the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a corporation or government department
• Geneva Conventions, treaties and protocols concerning the laws of war
• Green card, an informal name for an ID card granting permanent resident status to an immigrant to the United States

Mathematics and science

Biology and medicine

• GC (gene), encodes the vitamin D-binding protein also known as gc-globulin
• GC-content, a sequence composition of DNA molecules in genetics
• Gallocatechol, a plant polyphenol molecule
• Genetic counseling, in which patients are advised of the consequences and nature of a genetic disorder
• Genital cord (disambiguation), one of various collections of ducts
• Germinal center, an area in a lymph node
• Gliomatosis cerebri, a brain tumor
• Glucocorticoid, a type of steroid hormone
• Granular component, a component of the nucleolus
• Guanylate cyclase, an enzyme catalysing the synthesis of cyclic-GMP from GTP
• Gonococcus or Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the causative agent of gonorrhea

Other sciences

• Gas chromatography (gas–liquid chromatography), a technique used in analytical chemistry
• Gigacoulomb, an SI symbol for electric charge equal to 10⁹ coulomb
• Gigacycles per second (Gc), an older term for gigahertz
• Clayey gravel, in the Unified Soil Classification System
• Boss General Catalogue, an astronomical catalogue compiled by Benjamin Boss and published in the U.S. in 1936
• General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters, an astronomical catalogue by John Herschel, son of William Herschel
• Glivenko–Cantelli theorem, in probability
• Gregorian calendar, in timekeeping
• Crystallized intelligence (abbreviated Gc), a part of fluid and crystallized intelligence

Technology

Computing

• Garbage collection (computer science), a form of automatic memory management
• General Category, a Unicode code point property
• GenerativeComponents, computer-aided design software
• Global Catalog, a global listing of all objects in an Active Directory forest

Transportation

• Georgia Central Railway, a class III railroad in Georgia, United States
• Grand Central Railway, a railway in the United Kingdom
• GC, Mazda's first front-wheel drive midsize car platform
• A first generation Subaru Impreza sedan (ID code: GC)

Sport and recreation

• General classification, the aggregate placing in a multiple-stage cycling race
• Geocaching, an outdoor locating game
• Grasshopper Club Zürich, a Swiss sports club
• Grasshopper Cup, a squash tournament in Switzerland

Other uses

• gc (digraph), in some languages
• Library of Congress Classification:Class G, subclass GC -- Oceanography
• George Cross, the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, which also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations
• Global Caliphate, an envisioned all-encompassing theocratic caliphate
• Gold certificate, a certificate of ownership of gold
• Gold Coast, Queensland (city), a coastal city located in South-East Queensland (Australia)
• Pigment-coated, virgin mechanical pulp paperboard (DIN 19303 code GC)
• Gibraltar to Casablanca convoy (convoy code GC) in World War II