3-letter words containing c
- ugc — University Grants Committee
- ulc — ultra-large carrier
- unc — Universal Naming Convention
- upc — Universal Product Code
- urc — Uniform Resource Citation (previously Universal).
- utc — (time, standard) (UTC, World Time) The standard time common to every place in the world. UTC is derived from International Atomic Time (TAI) by the addition of a whole number of "leap seconds" to synchronise it with Universal Time 1 (UT1), thus allowing for the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, the rotational axis tilt (23.5 degrees), but still showing the Earth's irregular rotation, on which UT1 is based. Coordinated Universal Time is expressed using a 24-hour clock and uses the Gregorian calendar. It is used in aeroplane and ship navigation, where it also sometimes known by the military name, "Zulu time". "Zulu" in the phonetic alphabet stands for "Z" which stands for longitude zero. UTC was defined by the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR), a predecessor of the ITU-T. CCIR Recommendation 460-4, or ITU-T Recommendation X.680 (7/94), contains the full definition. The language-independent international abbreviation, UTC, is neither English nor French. It means both "Coordinated Universal Time" and "Temps Universel Coordonné".
- vac — vacuum cleaner.
- vcd — Video Compact Disc
- vcl — Visual Component Library
- vcr — A VCR is a machine that can be used to record television programmes or films onto videotapes, so that people can play them back and watch them later on a television set. VCR is an abbreviation for 'video cassette recorder'.
- vdc — Volunteer Defence Corps
- vgc — very good condition
- vic — a male given name, form of Victor.
- voc — volatile organic compound: one of a number of chemicals, including benzene and acetone, that evaporate or vaporize readily and are harmful to human health and the environment
- vrc — Vertical Redundancy Check
- vyc — Vallejo Yacht Club
- w3c — World Wide Web Consortium
- wac — a member of the Women's Army Corps, formerly an auxiliary of the U.S. Army.
- wbc — World Boxing Council
- wcc — World Council of Churches
- wcl — A Common Lisp implementation in a shared library by Wade Hennessey <[email protected]>. WCL is not a complete Common Lisp, but it does have the full development environment including dynamic file loading and debugging. A modified version of GDB provides mixed-language debugging. Version 2.14 includes a shared library, run-time support and source debugger. It requires GNU GCC 2.1 (not 2.2.2) and runs on SPARC under SunOS.
- wfc — Watford Football Club
- wpc — In Britain, a WPC is a female police officer of the lowest rank. WPC is an abbreviation for 'woman police constable'.
- wtc — World Trade Center
- x-c — cross-country
- xcc — XelaSoft Control Center
- xdc — Xander Dance Club
- xlc — Xtreme Launch Coaster
- xmc — Xtreme Mountain Club
- xpc — eXplicitly Parallel C. A dialect of Parallel C which is efficiently compilable to both SIMD and MIMD architectures. Only research implementations exist.
- xrc — Xtreme Racing Club
- yjc — Young Jumper Championships
- ytc — Yakima Tennis Club
- ywc — Youth Wrestling Club
- yyc — Yealm Yacht Club
- zac — (Australia slang) A sixpence; (sometimes, after decimalisation) a five-cent coin.
- zcc — Zion Christian Church
- zck — Zells Combat Kingdom
- zcu — Zimbabwe Cricket Union
- zcw — Zenith Championship Wrestling
- zfc — (mathematics) Zermelo Fränkel set theory plus the Axiom of Choice. A favourite axiomatisation of set theory.
- zsc — Zionsville Swim Club