BC

Look up BC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

BC most often refers to:

• Before Christ, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
• British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada
• Baja California, a state of Mexico

BC may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• "B.C.", a song by Sparks from the 1974 album Propaganda
• B.C. (comic strip) by Johnny Hart, and one of its characters
• BC (video game) by Lionhead Studios
• BC The Archaeology of the Bible Lands, a BBC television series
• Bullet Club, a professional wrestling stable

Businesses and organizations

• Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist, an order of the Greek Catholic Church
• BC Card, a Korean credit card company
• Bella Center, a conference center in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon (also known as SABC)
• Brunswick Corporation (NYSE ticker symbol BC)

Education

United States

• Bakersfield College, a college in Bakersfield, California
• Bellevue College, a college in Bellevue, Washington
• Benedictine College, a college in Atchison, Kansas
• Benedictine Military School, a high school in Savannah, Georgia
• Bergen Catholic High School, a high school in Oradell, New Jersey
• Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
  • Boston College Eagles, its athletic teams
• Brazosport College, a college in Lake Jackson, Texas
• Broward College, a college in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Worldwide

• Baccalaureus or bc, a Bachelor's degree in the Netherlands
• Baghdad College, a high school in Baghdad, Iraq
• British Council

Science and technology

• Backcrossing, a crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents, or a genetically similar individual
• Backward compatibility, the ability of new software to work similarly to its predecessor
• Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile
• Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
• Battle command, a military discipline
• Bayonet cap, a standard light bulb connection
• bc (programming language), an arbitrary-precision calculator language
• Black carbon, a carbonaceous component of soot
• Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
• × Brassocattleya or Bc., an orchid genus
• Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving equipment

Transportation

• NZR B^C class, a type of steam locomotive
• Skymark Airlines (IATA airline code BC)

Other uses

• Bullcrap, a phrase denoting something worthless
• "B.C.", nickname of Burr Chamberlain (1877–1933), American football player and coach
• Baguio, a city in the Philippines, locally abbreviated as "B.C."
• BC Powder, a brand of pain reliever
• BookCrossing, a website that encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
• Botswana, WMO country code (and obsolete NATO and FIPS country codes)

See also

• BC Cygni, a red supergiant star that is one of the largest stars
• Belaruskaja Čyhunka (BCh), the national railway company of Belarus
• Blind carbon copy (Bcc:), the practice of sending an e-mail to multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of recipients

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title BC.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.