GC

GC may stand for:

Education organizations

• Galveston College, a community college in Texas, United States
• Girls' College, an independent day and boarding high school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
• Gloucestershire College, a college in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
• Government College (disambiguation), one of various colleges
• Gordon College (Massachusetts), an institution of higher education in Wenham, Massachusetts, United States
• Goshen College, a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana, United States
• Grayson College, a community college in Texas, United States
• Greenville College, a college located in Greenville, Illinois, United States

Other organizations

• General Congregation, the highest authority in the Society of Jesus
• Ghetto Concept, a Canadian hip-hop group
• Good Charlotte, a rock band from Maryland, United States
• Grasshopper Club Zürich, a Swiss sports club
• Green Council, an environmental organization based in Hong Kong
• Guitar Center, the world's largest chain of musical instrument retailers
• Guitar Craft, an association of guitarists inspired by Robert Fripp (King Crimson)
• Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force
• Actuarial Association of Europe (French: Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen), established in 1978 to represent actuarial associations in the European Union
• Civil Guard (Spain) (Spanish: Guardia Civil), the civil guard or gendarmerie in Spain

In science

Biology

• GC-content, a sequence composition of DNA molecules in genetics
• Gallocatechol, a plant polyphenol molecule
• Genital cord (disambiguation), one of various collections of ducts
• Germinal center, an area in a lymph node
• Gliomatosis cerebri, a brain tumor
• Glucocorticoid, a type of steroid hormone
• Granular component, a component of the nucleolus
• Guanylate cyclase, an enzyme catalysing the synthesis of cyclic-GMP from GTP

Mathematics

• Glivenko–Cantelli theorem in probability

Time

• Gregorian calendar

Other sciences

• Gigacycles per second (abbreviated Gc), an older term for gigahertz
• Clayey gravel, in the Unified Soil Classification System
• Boss General Catalogue, an astronomical catalogue compiled by Benjamin Boss and published in the U.S. in 1936
• General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters, an astronomical catalogue by John Herschel expanding on the work of his father William Herschel
• Crystallized intelligence (abbreviated Gc), a part of fluid and crystallized intelligence

Technology

• Georgia Central Railway, a class III railroad in Georgia, United States
• Grand Central Railway, a railway in the United Kingdom
• GC, Mazda's first front-wheel drive midsize car platform

Computing

• Garbage collection (computer science), a form of automatic memory management
• General Category, a Unicode code point property
• GenerativeComponents, computer-aided design software
• Global Catalog, a global listing of all objects in an Active Directory forest

Measurement

• Gas chromatography (gas–liquid chromatography), a common type of chromatography used in analytic chemistry for separating and analyzing compounds that can be vaporized without decomposition
• Gigacoulomb, an SI symbol for electric charge equal to 10⁹ coulomb

Other uses

• GC (character), a fictitious cat on 1980s Mexican television
• gc (digraph)
• GC (gene), encodes the vitamin D-binding protein also known as gc-globulin
• The GC, a New Zealand television series
• Gambia International Airlines (IATA code), the national airline of the Gambia, headquartered in Banjul
• GameCube, a video game console
• Games Convention held in Leipzig, Germany
• General classification, the aggregate placing in a multiple-stage cycling race
• General counsel, the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a corporation or government department
• Genetic counseling, in which patients are advised of the consequences and nature of a genetic disorder
• Geneva Conventions, treaties and protocols concerning the laws of war
• Geocaching, an outdoor locating game
• George Cross, the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, which also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations
• Global Caliphate, a visionary theocratic all-encompassing caliphate
• Global Community, the fictional world government/state described in the Left Behind series
• Gold certificate, a certificate of ownership of gold
• Grasshopper Cup, a squash tournament in Switzerland
• Green card, the informal name for an ID card attesting to the permanent resident status of an immigrant in the United States
• Groupe de Chasse, a French air force unit
• Gunnerkrigg Court, a webcomic
• Library of Congress Classification:Class G, subclass GC -- Oceanography
• DIN 19303 code for pigment-coated, virgin mechanical pulp paperboard
• GC, the allied convoy code for Gibraltar to Casablanca in World War II