Plc

PLC may stand for:

In business:

• Public limited company, in UK or Ireland, is a type of limited company whose shares may be sold to the public
• Professional Law Corporation, in the US, a type of business entity devoted to the practice of law.
• Program length commercial, or infomercial
• Product life cycle, the succession of stages a product goes through

In education:

• Presbyterian Ladies\' College, the name of several independent girls\' schools in Australia
• Pymble Ladies\' College, an independent girls\' school in Sydney, Australia

In linguistics:

• Prague linguistic circle, an influential school of linguistic thought
• Phonetic loan character, an etymologic category of Chinese characters
• Penn Linguistics Colloquium, an annual conference at the University of Pennsylvania

In medicine:

• Pityriasis lichenoides chronica, the chronic version of the immune system disease Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
• Phospholipase C, an enzyme which cleaves PI(4,5)P2 to form IP3 and diacylglycerol

In politics:

• Palestinian Legislative Council, law-making body of the Palestinian Authority
• Parti Libéral du Canada, the French name of the Liberal Party of Canada
• Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, the Spanish name of the Constitutional Liberal Party of Nicaragua

In technology:

• Packet Loss Concealment, a technique to mask the effects of missing packets in VoIP communications
• Power line communication, including broadband PLC modes
• Programmable logic controller, a small special-purpose computer used to automate machines
• Polymorphic Lambda Calculus, a typed lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism (also known as System F)
• Planar lightwave circuit, photonic chip made by depositing doped and undoped layers of silica on a silicon substrate

In military

• Platoon Leaders Course, A single ten week, or two six week program that the Marines use for possible OCS candidates, which is undertaken during the summer for college students.

In other contexts:

• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), a federal monarchic republic formed by Poland and Lithuania
• Platoon Leaders Class, the United States Marine Corps training program for Marine Officer Candidates
• Psycho le Cemu, a Japanese visual kei rock band
• Patrol Leaders\' Council, the leadership body in a Boy Scout Troop
• PLC plastic
• Pigmy Love Circus, a Los Angeles based rock band.
• Parish Life Coordinator, a term used for a non-priest entrusted with the pastoral care of a Catholic parish under Canon 517.2 of the Catholic Church\'s Code of Canon Law.
• Professional Learning Community, a movement in the education field of teachers sharing with teachers to improve learning among their students.
• People\'s Liberation Comrades (or Cookies), a gathering of people that play Day of Defeat: Source. Original comrades are from the state of Georgia in the United States.
• Personal Life Coach, a Jasmin sponsored training in the ways of Life and Love. Poetry and Song. Hope and Faith in ones self.

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