PLC

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PLC may stand for:

Contents 1 Business 2 Education 3 Schools 4 Medicine 5 Politics 6 Technology 7 Military 8 Miscellaneous

[edit] Business

• Public limited company, in the UK, Ireland and the Philippines, is a type of limited company whose shares may be sold to the public
• Program length commercial, or infomercial
• Product life cycle, the succession of stages a product goes through
• Personal Line of Credit or Line of credit - is a loan borrowed from financial institution in Canada and the United States

[edit] Education

• Presidents Leadership Class, a leadership institution for undergraduates at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Platoon Leaders Class, the United States Marine Corps training program for Marine Officer Candidates

[edit] Schools

Presbyterian Ladies' College (or P.L.C.) is the name of several independent girls' schools in Australia, affiliated with either the Presbyterian Church of Australia or the Uniting Church in Australia:

Name	City
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Armidale	Armidale, New South Wales
Kinross Wolaroi School, aka Presbyterian Ladies' College, Goulburn	Goulburn, New South Wales
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne	Burwood, Victoria
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Perth	Peppermint Grove, Western Australia
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney	Croydon, New South Wales

Similarly:

• Arden Anglican School, in Beecroft, New South Wales (Formerly Presbyterian Ladies' College, Beecroft, a preparatory school of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney)
• Pymble Ladies' College, in Pymble, New South Wales (Formerly Presbyterian Ladies' College, Pymble)
• Seymour College, in Glen Osmond, South Australia (Formerly Presbyterian Girls' College)

Schools formed by merging with a Presbyterian Ladies College:

• Ballarat and Clarendon College in Ballarat, Victoria (Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies' College)
• Kinross Wolaroi School in Orange, New South Wales (Presbyterian Ladies' College, Orange)
• Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School in Essendon, Moonee Ponds and Keilor East, Victoria (Penleigh Presbyterian Ladies College)
• The Scots PGC College in Warwick, Queensland (The Presbyterian Girls' College)

[edit] Medicine

• Peter Lougheed Centre, a hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• 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
• Pathological Laughing and Crying,a disorder of emotional expression due to brain conditions,distinct from normal emotional cause and effect

[edit] 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

[edit] Technology

• Packet Loss Concealment, a technique to mask the effects of missing packets in VoIP communications
• Power line communication, including broadband PLC modes
• Polymorphic Lambda Calculus, a typed lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism (also known as System F)
• Programmable logic controller, a digital computer used for automation of industrial processes, such as machinery control in factories.
• Process level control, process management of observation and steering
• Portevin–Le Chatelier effect, another term for dynamic strain aging
• Planar Lightwave Circuit, silica-on-silicon planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology. Planar layers of silica, the same material used in optical fibers, are deposited from a plasma under high vacuum, heated to high temperatures then patterned into device structures. The fabricated devices have dimensions and material characteristics similar to those of optical fibers, making them compatible with fiber infrastructure.

[edit] 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

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795), a federal monarchic republic formed by Poland and Lithuania
• Psycho le Cemu, a Japanese visual kei rock band
• Plastic
• Pigmy Love Circus, a Los Angeles based rock band
• Professional Learning Community, a movement in the education field of teachers sharing with teachers to improve learning among their students

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