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BC or B.C. may stand for:
- Before Christ, an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth
[edit] Places:
- British Columbia, a Canadian province
- Baja California, a state of Mexico
- Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
- Botswana, country code BC (from the former name "Bechuanaland"), used by the World Meteorological Organization and formerly by NATO
[edit] Colleges:
- Barnard College, a women's liberal arts college, affiliated with Columbia University, in New York, New York
- Beloit College, a small liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin
- Benedictine College, an institution of higher education in Atchison, Kansas
- Blinn College, a junior college in Brenham, Texas
- Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Bridgewater College, a college located in Bridgewater, Virginia
- Brooklyn College, a college located in Brooklyn, New York
[edit] Businesses and organizations:
- BC Recordings, a record label
- Blue Cross, a trade association of United States health insurance companies
- Boise Cascade, a manufacturer of paper and pulp products
- Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon
- Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School, a Christian High School in Huntington Beach, California
- British Council, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
- Broken Complex Records, an independent record label
- Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league professional baseball club
- Brunswick Corporation, stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange
- Skymark Airlines, IATA airline code
[edit] Other:
- Backward compatibility, compatibility of new product with old product
- Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
- Barnabas Collins, fictional vampire from the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows
- Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
- Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
- Bayonet cap, a fastening mechanism
- B.C. (comic strip), a syndicated comic strip originated by Johnny Hart
- bc (Unix), "basic calculator" Unix program
- BC (video game), a canceled computer game by Peter Molyneux
- NZR Bc class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
- BC Powder, brand name of pain reliever
- Bc, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Brassocattleya
- Birth control
- Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
- Body Count, rapper Ice-T's metal band
- BookCrossing, a website which encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
- Border Crossings, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
- Boundary condition, a mathematical restraint on partial differential equations
- Buoyancy compensator, a piece of scuba diving equipment
- Burning Crusade, an expansion to the online role-playing game World of Warcraft
- The Breakfast Club, a teen-oriented dramedy released in the year 1985
- British Cycle, the English/ISO system thread designator common in bicycle bottom brackets
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%BCis the URL encoded version of the quarter(ΒΌ) character
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