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BC may stand for:

Before Christ (see Anno Domini) 

an abbreviation used to refer to a year before the beginning of the year count that starts with the supposed year of the birth of Jesus. Applies to years before AD 1. (The abbrevation 'BCE' has started to be used this way as well, representing disputed meanings including "before the Common Era" or "before the Christian Era")

Ballistic coefficient 

a measure of air drag on a projectile by calculating a ratio its sectional density to its coefficient of form.

Boston College 

a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

British Columbia 

Province of Canada. "B.C." is the traditional use, while "BC" is the more modern, being used as the official Canada Post code for mail, and in domain names such as vancouver.bc.ca. It is also part of the province's ISO 3166-2 code CA-BC.

Baja California 

State of Mexico. "B.C." is the traditional abbreviation as well as the postal code for mail.

B.C. (comic) 

syndicated comic strip by Johnny Hart, which has run since 1958 and features wisecracking cavemen.

BC (video game) 

an as-yet unreleased computer game by Peter Molyneux.

bc (Unix) 

basic calculator program.

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.

Basso Continuo 

an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period

Boise Cascade 

a manufacturer of paper and pulp products.

BookCrossing (BC) 

releasing books from your shelf into the world.

Botswana

the obsolete NATO digram from the former name Bechuanaland.

Breath control 

also referred to as Erotic asphyxiation

Because 

bc can be used in internet lingo to stand for this.

Brunswick Corporation 

stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Buoyancy compensator 

a piece of scuba diving equipment.

Skymark Airlines 

the IATA code for Japan based airline.

See also

BC powder

BC Powder: name brand of pain reliever containing aspirin, caffeine, and salicylamide.

"B.C. powder": can also refer to the light and fluffy snow which attracts skiers and snowboarders to British Columbia,

"B/C powder": powdered chemicals in a fire extinguisher effective against burning liquids (B-rated) and gases (C-rated).

BC wheel 

the impossible wheel, a unicycle, named after the comic strip B.C.

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