BC

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BC or B.C. may stand for:

• Before Christ, a year before the beginning of the year count that starts with the conventional year of the birth of Jesus
• British Columbia, a Canadian province
• B.C. (comic), syndicated comic strip by Johnny Hart
  • BC wheel, the impossible wheel, a unicycle, named after the comic strip B.C.
• BC (video game), a cancelled computer game by Peter Molyneux
• bc (Unix), "basic calculator" program
• B^C class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
• BC Powder, brand name of pain reliever
• B/C powder, powdered chemicals in a fire extinguisher effective against burning liquids (B-rated) and gases (C-rated)
• Backward compatibility, compatibility of new product with old product
• Baja California, a state of Mexico
• Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
• Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
• Barnard College, a women's liberal arts college, affiliated with Columbia University, in New York, New York
• Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
• Beloit College, a small liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin
• Benedictine College, an institution of higher education in Atchison, Kansas
• Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
• Boise Cascade, a manufacturer of paper and pulp products
• BookCrossing, "releasing books from your shelf into the world"
• Border Crossings, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
• Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
• Botswana, World Meteorological Organization and obsolete NATO country code (from the former name "Bechuanaland")
• Buoyancy compensator, a piece of scuba diving equipment
• Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon
• Breath control
• Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School, a Christian High School in Huntington Beach, California
• British Council, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
• The Burning Crusade, the first game expansion for World of Warcraft
• Brunswick Corporation, stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange
• Skymark Airlines, IATA airline code
• Bayonet cap, a fastening mechanism
• Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.

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