SPC may refer to:

Business and law

  • Segregated portfolio company, a specialized form of offshore company
  • Signature panel code, a credit or debit card security code
  • Social purpose corporation, a company that considers social issues in its decision making
  • Special purpose company, a subsidiary usually created solely for isolating a financial risk, or for financial reporting reasons
  • Statistical process control, a method of quality control
  • Supplementary protection certificate, a sui generis, patent-like, intellectual property right

Organisations

Businesses

  • Singapore Petroleum Company, a Singapore area oil company
  • Southern Pacific Communications, predecessor of American telecommunications provider Sprint Corporation
  • Software Publishing Corporation, a former U.S. computer software manufacturer
  • Sony Pictures Classics, a speciality division of Sony Pictures Entertainment
  • South Park Commons, an American venture capital firm and technology community
  • SPC Australia, a brand of jams and tinned goods founded in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
  • SPC Group, a Korean food company from Samlip Group
  • Synthetic Plastics Company, a defunct plastics manufacturer that owned many budget-price record labels
  • Syrian Petroleum Company, a state-owned oil company
  • System Planning Corporation, a U.S. military electronics corporation

Churches

  • Serbian Orthodox Church (), an Eastern Orthodox Christian Church
  • Southern Presbyterian Church (Australia)

Government and politics

  • Pacific Community, formerly the South Pacific Commission, a Pacific Islands regional intergovernmental organisation
  • Supreme Petroleum Council (Kuwait), one of the governmental agencies of Kuwait
  • Socialist Party of Canada
  • Socialist Party of British Columbia
  • Supreme People's Court (disambiguation), highest judicial body in several countries
  • Supreme Political Council, governing body in Yemen formed by the Houthi movement and the General People's Congress
  • Student Police Cadet Project

Schools

  • San Pedro College, a Catholic institution in Davao City, Philippines
  • San Pedro College of Business Administration, a private institute in Laguna, Philippines
  • St Patrick's College (disambiguation), various institutions
  • Saint Paul's College (disambiguation), various institutions
  • St Peter's College (disambiguation), various institutions
  • St. Petersburg College, a community college with multiple campuses in Pinellas County, Florida, U.S.
  • South Plains College, a community college based in Levelland, Texas

Other organizations

  • Swedish Paralympic Committee, the non-profit organization representing Swedish athletes in the International Paralympic Committee
  • Sisters of Charity of St. Paul, Religious congregation founded by St Paul
  • Seattle Privacy Coalition, a group of personal privacy and government transparency activists based in Seattle, Washington

Police and military

  • Scalable Plate Carrier, a ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, often called a bulletproof vest
  • Specialist (rank), one of the four junior enlisted ranks in the U.S. Army
  • Special Purpose Cartridge, a rifle cartridge developed by Remington and the US military
  • Special police constable
  • Student Police Cadet Project, a government of Kerala initiative.
  • State Police Chief (aka Director general of police), a rank in the Indian Police Service

Science and technology

  • Secure multiparty computation, a cryptography problem introduced in 1982
  • Service programming code, a code in most CDMA handsets/mobiles
  • Signal peptidase I, an enzyme
  • Signaling Point Code, used for SS7 signaling protocol in telephony systems
  • Simple point charge, a 3-point water model used in computational chemistry simulations
  • Sodium percarbonate, an oxidizing agent used in cleaning products
  • Solid phase crystallization, a method to produce polycrystalline silicon
  • SPC file format, a file format used in spectroscopy
  • SPC700, a processor used for audio in the Super NES hardware
  • Stage pin connector, a standard power cable connector
  • Statistical process control, a method for achieving quality control in manufacturing processes
  • Storage Performance Council, a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize, and promote storage subsystem benchmarks; see IBM SAN Volume Controller
  • Stored program control, a machine control principle that uses a computer to store programs and data
  • Storm Prediction Center, a division of NOAA's National Weather Service that forecasts and deals with strong to severe weather events
  • Summary of Product Characteristics, the defining information document for medicinal products used in the European Union
  • SupraPubic Catheter, used to drain urine from the bladder

Other

  • IATA code "SPC" for La Palma Airport, Canary Islands
  • Scrabble Players Championship, an annual Scrabble championship event in North America
  • South Pacific Championship (1986–1990), a rugby union competition for Australia, New Zealand and Fiji
  • Southwest Preparatory Conference, an athletic league in Texas and Oklahoma, US
  • Smile Precure!, the ninth installment of the Pretty Cure franchise, released in 2012
  • Student Price Card, a loyalty card program in Canada
  • Sony Pictures Classics, a specialty film studio owned by Sony.
  • Shark Punching Center, a fictional organization

See also

  • SPOC (disambiguation)
  • SCP (disambiguation)