PLC

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'PLC' may stand for:
In 'business':

★ 'Public limited company', in UK or Ireland, is a type of limited company whose shares may be sold to the public

★ Professional Law Corporation, in the US, a type of business entity devoted to the practice of law.

★ Program length commercial, or infomercial

★ Product life cycle, the succession of stages a product goes through
In 'linguistics':

★ Prague linguistic circle, an influential school of linguistic thought

★ Phonetic loan character, an etymologic category of Chinese characters

★ Penn Linguistics Colloquium, an annual conference at the University of Pennsylvania
In 'medicine':

★ 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
In '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
In 'technology':

★ Packet Loss Concealment, a technique to mask the effects of missing packets in VoIP communications

★ Power line communication, including broadband PLC modes

★ Programmable logic controller, a small special-purpose computer used to automate machines

★ Polymorphic Lambda Calculus, a typed lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism (also known as System F)

★ Planar lightwave circuit, photonic chip made by depositing doped and undoped layers of silica on a silicon substrate
In '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.
In other contexts:

★ Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), a federal monarchic republic formed by Poland and Lithuania

★ Platoon Leaders Class, the United States Marine Corps training program for Marine Officer Candidates

★ Presbyterian Ladies' College or Pymble Ladies' College, the names of several independent girls' schools in Australia

★ Psycho le Cemu, a Japanese visual kei rock band

★ Patrol Leaders' Council, the leadership body in a Boy Scout Troop

★ PLC plastic

★ Pigmy Love Circus, a Los Angeles based rock band.

★ Parish Life Coordinator, a term used for a non-priest entrusted with the pastoral care of a Catholic parish under Canon 517.2 of the Catholic Church's Code of Canon Law.

★ Professional Learning Community, a movement in the education field of teachers sharing with teachers to improve learning among their students.

★ Phospholipase C, an enzyme.