APC most often refers to:

  • Armoured personnel carrier, an armoured fighting vehicle

APC or Apc may also refer to:

Computing and technology

  • Auto Power Control, a system of powering e.g., laser diodes
  • Adaptive predictive coding, an analog-to-digital conversion system
  • Advanced process control, a concept in control theory
  • Alternative PHP Cache, a PHP accelerator program
  • Angled physical contact, a technique used in optical fiber connections
  • APC (magazine), Australian Personal Computer magazine
  • APC III or Advanced Personal Computer, a 1983 NEC microcomputer
  • APC by Schneider Electric, formerly American Power Conversion Corporation or simply APC, a manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies, electronics peripherals and data center products
  • APC-7 connector, a coaxial connector used for high-frequency applications
  • Application Program Command, a C1 control code
  • Asynchronous procedure call, a function that executes asynchronously in the context of a specific thread on Microsoft Windows
  • Atari Punk Console, a simple DIY noisemaker circuit
  • Automated passenger counter, a people counter that counts people as they enter/exit public transport vehicles
  • VIA APC, a low-cost Android PC computer

Science

General

  • Article processing charge, a fee charged to authors for publication in an open access journal

Biology and medicine

  • Activated protein C, an anti-coagulant and anti-inflammatory protein
  • Adenomatous polyposis coli, a tumor suppressor protein encoded by the APC gene, mutations in which can cause colon cancer
  • Anaphase-promoting complex, a ubiquitin ligase cell cycle protein
  • Antigen-presenting cell, a type of cell that displays foreign antigens
  • Amino Acid-Polyamine-Organocation (APC) Family of transport proteins
  • APC Superfamily, a superfamily of transport proteins
  • APC tablet, analgesic compound of aspirin, phenacetin, and caffeine
  • Vincent's APC, a discontinued analgesic trademark, once popular in Australia
  • Argon plasma coagulation, an endoscopic technique for controlling hemorrhage
  • Atrial premature complexes, a type of premature heart beat or irregular heart beat or arrhythmia which start in the upper two chambers of the heart
  • Australian Plant Census, a plant database website

Chemistry

  • Allophycocyanin, a protein from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family
  • Allylpalladium chloride dimer, a chemical compound
  • Ammonium perchlorate, a powerful oxidizer used in solid rocket motors

Military

  • Armoured personnel carrier, type of armoured military vehicle
  • Armour-piercing capped, an anti-armor shell type
  • Army Proficiency Certificate, the training syllabus of the Army Cadet Force
  • Brügger & Thomet APC (Advanced Police Carbine), a family of submachine guns and rifles produced by B&T AG
  • Two US Navy hull classification symbols: Coastal transport (APC) and Small coastal transport (APc)

Organizations

  • Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory, a research laboratory located in Paris
  • A.P.C., A French design group and clothing retailer
  • African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, a group of countries
  • African People's Convention, a South African political party
  • Alianza Popular Conservadora, a political party in Nicaragua
  • Alien Property Custodian, a former office within the Government of the United States
  • All People's Congress, a political party in Sierra Leone
  • All Progressives Congress, a political party in Nigeria
  • Alternativa Popular Canaria, a separatist political party of the Canary Islands
  • American Pie Council, an organization committed to preserving America's pie heritage
  • American Plastics Council, a major trade association for the U.S. plastics industry
  • Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, a defunct American petroleum exploration company
  • Animal Procedures Committee, a UK public body and task force
  • Anti-Poverty Committee, a direct action organization in Vancouver, Canada
  • Apocalypse Production Crew, an MP3 warez organization
  • Arab Potash Company, a potash production company headquartered in Jordan
  • Armed Proletarians for Communism, an Italian far-left terrorist group of the 1970s
  • Arrangers' Publishing Company, a sheet music publishing company in the United States
  • Asia Pacific College, a joint venture between IBM Philippines and the SM Foundation
  • Associated Presbyterian Churches, a Scottish Christian denomination
  • Association for Progressive Communications, a worldwide network of organisations helping others use the internet to promote social justice and sustainable development
  • Association of Professional Chaplains, internationally certified hospice chaplains
  • Australian Polling Council, a polling industry body
  • Patriotic Alliance for Change, a Paraguayan political alliance (Alianza Patriótica por el Cambio)

Places

  • Apc, Hungary, a village in the Heves County of Hungary
  • Napa County Airport (IATA airport code APC), near Napa, California

Sports

  • African Paralympic Committee, a sports organization based in Cairo, Egypt
  • Americas Paralympic Committee, an umbrella organization of National Paralympic Committees
  • Asian Paralympic Committee, an umbrella organisation of National Paralympic Committees
  • Australian Paralympic Committee
  • Australian Pickleball Championships
  • Australian Provincial Championship, a rugby union competition in Australia

Other uses

  • A Perfect Circle, an American rock supergroup
  • Alkali Pozzolan Cement, an alternative cement developed at Curtin University, Australia
  • Ambulatory Payment Classification
  • Asia Pacific Catering, restaurant chain
  • Attoparsec, an unusual minuscule unit of astronomic distance
  • Automatic Performance Control, a system that was used on some Saab H engines
  • Average propensity to consume, the proportion of income spent
  • Levantine Arabic, by ISO 639-3 code
  • North Levantine Arabic, by a previously separate ISO 639-3 code, which has now been broadened to include Levantine Arabic

See also

  • APCR (disambiguation)
  • APCS (disambiguation)