PAC

PAC or Pac may refer to:

People

• Ben Satterly (PAC), a British professional wrestler
• Pac (family), a noble family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• Sean Waltman (X-Pac), an American professional wrestler
• Tupac Shakur, an American hip-hop artist

Organizations and types of organizations

Political

• Peoples' Aman Committee, criminal gang and welfare group associated with Pakistan Peoples Party
• Political Action Committee, private group organized to elect or defeat political candidates (USA).
• Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa
• Partido Acción Ciudadana, name of political parties in Latin America
• Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom), a parliamentary committee in the UK and other westminster systems responsible for overseeing government expenditures
• Public Accounts Committee (India), a parliamentary committee in India that examines government accounts and considers the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General
• Public Affairs Committee (Malawi), a political organization in Malawi
• Armed Proletarians for Communism (Proletari Armati per il Comunismo), an Italian far-left terrorist group of the 1970s

Education

• Partnerships in Academic Communities, a program in Miami, Florida that awards scholarships to those enrolled
• Prince Alfred College, an independent day and boarding school for boys, located in Adelaide, South Australia
• Panasonic Academic Challenge, a national competition (USA)
• Postgraduate Applications Centre, an organization in Ireland
• Professionals' Academy of Commerce, an accounting school in Pakistan

Sports

• Pac-12, the Pacific-12 Conference, a college athletic conference, which operates in the western United States
• Pocket Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Indiana
• Presidents' Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division III athletic conference of small private colleges
• Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, former name of the Colonial States Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference

Other

• Pacific Aerospace Corporation, an aircraft manufacturing company based in Hamilton, New Zealand
• Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, a military aircraft manufacturing facility in Pakistan
• Panasonic Avionics Corporation, a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation
• Polar Air Cargo, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, USA
• Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento, an investment plan in Brazil
• Pasukan Aturgerak Cepat, a Malaysian armed forces unit
• Provincial Armed Constabulary, a title used by some State Armed Police Forces in India
• Polish American Congress, a national umbrella organization (USA)
• Political Advisory Committee, a committee that evaluates new experiment proposals for particle accelerators
• PAC Engineering & Contracting Service Pty Ltd, a mining maintenance company, based in Australia.

Music and entertainment

• Perfect authentic cadence, in music
• Performing arts center, a multi-use performance space
• 2Pac, an American rapper

Arts

• Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, a contemporary art museum in Milan

Science and technology

• Parachute and Cable, a British anti-aircraft weapon of WWII
• Patriot Advanced Capability, a software-only upgrade of the MIM-104 Patriot
• Perceptual Audio Coding, an audio compression algorithm
• Porting Authorisation Code, a unique identifier which telephone network providers issue to a customer so they can port their number to another network
• Powdered activated carbon, used as a sorbent
• Process Analytical Chemistry, covering all technological efforts leading to automatic analytics in order to control processes in chemical industry
• Programmable automation controller, a compact controller that combines the features of a PC-based control system with that of a programmable logic controller
• Pseudo algebraically closed field (mathematics), a field with geometric features, namely each variety over it has a rational point
• Pure and Applied Chemistry, the official monthly journal of IUPAC

Medicine and biology

• P1-derived artificial chromosome, genomic research
• Proanthocyanidin, a type of flavonoids
• Plasma aldosterone concentration
• Premature atrial contraction, a type of premature heart beat or irregular heart beat or arrhythmia which start in the upper two chambers of the heart
• Primary auditory cortex, a brain region that is heavily involved with the processing of auditory (sound) information
• Pulmonary artery catheterization
• Physician Assistant-Certified

Psychology and psychotherapy

• Parent-Adult-Child, a model in transactional analysis

Computers

• Presentation-abstraction-control, a type of design pattern used in software engineering
• Proxy auto-config, a web browser technology
• Online public access catalog, or OPAC, or Library Catalog
• Probably approximately correct learning, a framework of learning that was proposed by Leslie Valiant in his paper A theory of the learnable
• Pin Array Cartridge (PAC), a socket type for a CPU package, designed for the Itanium processor by Intel, see chip carrier‎

Software

• Perimeter and Area Calculator (PAC) is digital construction takeoff & estimating software for calculating quantity of material and labor using digital blueprints
• Pacmanager (PAC) is a ssh client manager on Unix system (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacmanager/)

Video games

• Pan Asian Coalition, one of the two playable factions in the computer game Battlefield 2142
• Pac-Man, originally an arcade game

Transportation

• PAC CT/4, a basic training aircraft made by Pacific Aerospace
• Progressive Activity Coupe, a vehicle category/development idea by BMW

Business

• Planned Amortization Class, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation

See also

• Pac-Man (disambiguation)
• Pacific (disambiguation)
• Primitive Apostolic Christianity (disambiguation)
• Public Affairs Council (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.