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TC

TC, T.C., Tc, Tc, tc, or .tc may refer to:

Medicine and Biology

Testicular Cancer
Therapeutic Community, a treatment programme for addictions, personality disorder or other mental problems
Total Cholesterol
Cytotoxic T-cells

Chemistry and Physics

Technetium (symbol Tc), a chemical element
Temperature coefficient
Teracoulomb, an SI unit for electric charge equal to 1012 coulombs
Tesla coil, a category of high-voltage discharge coils
Thermocouple, a widely used type of temperature sensor
"To contain", on laboratory glassware
Tonnes of carbon (tC)
Temperature cycling, a reliability test
Tc may refer to:
Critical temperature
Convective temperature
Curie temperature

Organizations

TopCoder, company which administers contests in computer programming
TC Franchise, all-purpose computer company
TC Music, an independent record label in New York
TC Electronic, a Danish manufacturer of fine studio equipment and guitar effects
Transport Canada, a Canadian federal government department
Teachers College, Columbia University, a graduate school of education in New York City
Telecom Cambodia, Cambodia's principal telecom
Tierra Comunera, a Spanish political party
Taco Cabana, a fast food Mexican restaurant
The Committee, a celebrity and Hollywood organization
The Committee (improv group), a San Francisco based improvisational comedy group

Publications

IEEE Transactions on Computers, a computer science journal

Computers

tc, command-line utility used configure network traffic control in the Linux kernel.
.tc, the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Turks and Caicos Islands
TrueCrypt, disk encryption software
Trusted Computing, a scheme for adding additional controls on what computers may or may not do into hardware or software
Turbo C, software development program by Borland

Computer Games

Total conversion, a game modification that completely changes the games content
X3: Terran Conflict, a PC game
TV Champion, a Japanese Super Game Boy video game
Transcend Christ, an era designation in the Xenosaga game series

Television, Film, and Music

T.C. as per Theodore Calvin, a character from Magnum, P.I., played by actor Roger E. Mosley
TC Smith, an American singer, for TCR
Tevin Campbell, a musician
TC, a British drum and bass producer and DJ.
Tom Constanten, an American musician from the Grateful Dead
Tom Cruise, an American actor
Tom Caron, a television host for New England Sports Network
Top Cat, a cartoon character
Top Combine, a Mandopop boy band
The Committee (film), an independent film directed by Peter Sykes in 1968 featuring a performance by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and a soundtrack by Pink Floyd.

Motion Picture, Video, and Audio production

Telecine, a motion picture film transfer process identifier (usually abbreviated TK instead to avoid confusion with time code)
Telecine (piracy), a movie piracy method
Teleconverter, the secondary lens mounted on SLRs between the camera and the photographic lens
Time code, used in video and audio production

Places

The Republic of Turkey, from the Turkish name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti
Traverse City, Michigan, Self-proclaimed "Cherry Capital of the World"
Turks and Caicos Islands
Twin cities, often specifically the Minneapolis-St. Paul region
The Colony, Texas, a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Transportation

Air Tanzania, IATA code
TC, a Mazda piston engine
TC by Maserati, an automobile sold by Chrysler from 1989-1991
Twincam, an alternative term for an overhead camshaft (OHC) engine
Scion tC, a touring coupe made by Scion that's based on the Toyota Avensis
Traffic collision, an automobile accident
Traction control, an anti-slip automobile subsystem
Turn coordinator, an aircraft instrument
True Course - angle for True north in Course (navigation)

Sports

Turismo Carretera, a popular stock car category in Argentina
TC 2000, a series of races for touring cars which is held each year in Argentina
TC Bear, the mascot for the Minnesota Twins baseball team
Total chances, a baseball fielding term
Ty Conklin, an NHL goaltender
Tim Connolly, an American professional ice hockey player
Taylon Center, an American dirt track racecar driver

People

TC Luoma, an American magazine editor

Business

Terms & Conditions, as in negotiations and contracts
Total cost, an economics & cost accounting term

Other uses

Total Communication, a form of Sign Language
Tropical cyclone, also known as a hurricane
Trinity Cross, the highest national award in Trinidad and Tobago
TC, Take Care (mail or letters)
Thread count (textiles)

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "TC" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Italian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Chinese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Catalan: Tc, Esperanto: Tc, Hebrew: Tc, Latvian: Tc, Polish: Tc, Ripuarian: TC (Watt ėßß datt?), Finnish: Tc.


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