BC
BC or B.C. may refer to:
 Before Christ, from the Latin Ante Christum, an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus Christ.
Places
British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province
Baja California, Mexico's northernmost state
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
Basque Country, Land of the Basque people
Botswana, World Meteorological Organization country code 'BC'
"Bull City", a nickname for Durham, North Carolina
Educational institutions
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
Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School, a Christian High School in Huntington Beach, California
Bridgewater College, a college located in Bridgewater, Virginia
Brooklyn College, a college located in Brooklyn, New York
Benedictine Military School , formerly Benedictine College, Savannah, Georgia
Government institutions
Bureau of Corrections (Philippines), an agency of the Department of Justice of the Philippines, charged with the custody and rehabilitation of national offenders
Businesses and organizations
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
British Council, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
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 'BC'
Music
Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
BC Recordings, a record label
Body Count, rapper Ice-T's metal band
Entertainment
B.C. (comic strip), a syndicated comic strip originated by Johnny Hart
Barnabas Collins, fictional vampire from the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows
Border Crossings, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
The Breakfast Club, a teen-oriented dramedy released in the year 1985
Burning Crusade, an expansion to the online role-playing game World of Warcraft
Math and technology
Backward compatibility, compatibility of new product with old product
bc (Unix), "basic calculator" Unix program
NZR Bc class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
Buoyancy compensator, a piece of scuba diving equipment
Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
Boundary condition, a mathematical restraint on partial differential equations
Medicine and science
Bc, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Brassocattleya
BC Powder, brand name of pain reliever
Birth control
Breast cancer
Board Certification, as in Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Board Certified (APRN, BC)
Other
Basketball Club, in Romanian. For example BC Mures
Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
BookCrossing, a website which encourages leaving books in public places to be found by others
Base Camp in mountaineering
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