What do the letters B.C. stand for?
BC may refer to any of the following:
Before Christ, an epoch used in dating years prior to the
estimated birth of Jesus
Baja California, a state in Mexico
Basque Country (greater region), a nation between Spain and
France
Bell Centre, an arena in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Botswana's WMO country code and FIPS 10-4 code
British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada Schools
Bakersfield College, a college in Bakersfield, California
Baghdad College, a high school, Baghdad, Iraq
Bergen Catholic High School, a high school in Oradell, New
Jersey
Benedictine Military School, a high school in Savannah,
Georgia
Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Brazosport College, a college in Lake Jackson, Texas
BC Card, Korean credit card company
Bella Center, a conference center in Copenhagen, Denmark
Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon
British Council
Brunswick Corporation's NYSE ticker symbol
Basilian Chouerite Order, a religious order
Borough Council, a class of second tier council in the United
Kingdom
Bureau of Corrections (Philippines), an agency of the Department
of Justice of the Philippines
bc programming language, an arbitrary-precision calculator
language
Backcrossing, a crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents, or
a genetically similar individual
Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile
Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
Battle command, a military process
Bayonet cap, a standard light bulb connection
Black carbon, a carbonaceous component of soot
Buoyancy compensator (diving), a piece of scuba diving
equipment
Belaruskaja Čyhunka, the national railway company of Belarus
NZR BC class, a steam locomotive classification of the New
Zealand Railways Department
Skymark Airlines' IATA airline code
B.C. (comic strip), a comic strip by Johnny Hart, and one of its
characters
BC (video game), a cancelled video game by Lionhead Studios
BC Powder, a brand of pain reliever
Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing
system
BookCrossing, a website that encourages leaving books in public
places to be found by others
Brassocattleya or Bc, an orchid genus
Business continuity
Baccalaureus or bc, a Bachelors' degree in the Netherlands
Blind carbon copy (Bcc:), the practice of sending an e-mail to
multiple recipients without disclosing the complete list of
recipients
BC The Archaeology of the Bible Lands, BBC television series
British Citizen, a category of British nationality