BC

'BC' or 'B.C.' may stand for:

★ Before Christ, also sometimes called BCE (Before the Common Era), the years prior to CE (the Common Era)

Contents

Places:

Colleges:

Businesses and organizations:

Other:

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

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

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

★ 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

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

★ 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 cancelled computer game by Peter Molyneux

★ B^C class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department

★ BC Powder, brand name of pain reliever

★ BC Wave, a Canadian rugby union team of the RCSL

★ 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

★ %BC is the URL encoded version of the quarter(¼) character