PAC

PAC may refer to:

Business

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

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 Assistant-Certified

Entertainment

Performing arts center, a multi-use performance space
Tupac Shakur, an American hip-hop artist
Pan Asian Coalition, one of the two playable factions in the computer game Battlefield 2142
Ben Satterly (PAC), a British professional wrestler
Sean Waltman (X-Pac), an American professional wrestler

Politics

Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa
Partido Acción Ciudadana, name of political parties in Latin America
Polish American Congress, a national umbrella organization
Political action committee, a group organized to elect or defeat political candidates
Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, an investment plan in Brazil.
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
Armed Proletarians for Communism (Proletari Armati per il Comunismo), an Italian far-left terrorist group of the 1970s

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
Progressive Activity Coupe, a vehicle category/development idea by BMW
Proxy auto-config, a web browser technology
Patriot Advanced Capability, a software-only upgrade of the MIM-104 Patriot
Online public access catalog

Mathematics

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

Medicine

Plasma aldosterone concentration
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

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
Proanthocyanidin, a type of flavonoids
Provincial Armed Constabulary or Special Armed Police, special police in India

Translation

The word "PAC" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Spanish, Esperanto, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Slovenian, Chinese.

Translation(s) in other languages: French: Pac (homonymie), Norwegian (Bokmål): Pac.