BC
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BC or B.C. may stand for:
- Before Christ or B.C., designation applied to years prior to the current (AD) era
- Places
- British Columbia, a Canadian province
- Baja California, a state of Mexico
- Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
- Colleges
- Boston College, a university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Barnard College, a women's liberal arts college, affiliated with Columbia University, in New York, New York
- Beloit College, a small liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin
- Benedictine College, an institution of higher education in Atchison, Kansas
- Bridgewater College, a college located in Bridgewater, Virginia
- Organizations/Businesses
- Boise Cascade, a manufacturer of paper and pulp products
- BC Recordings, a record label
- Blue Cross, a trade association of United States health insurance companies
- Brasseries du Cameroun, a brewery in Cameroon
- Brethren Christian Junior/Senior High School, a Christian High School in Huntington Beach, California
- British Council, a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom
- Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league professional baseball club
- Brunswick Corporation, stock symbol for a consumer sporting goods manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange
- Skymark Airlines, IATA airline code
- Other
- B.C., a syndicated comic strip by Johnny Hart
- bc, "basic calculator" Unix program
- BC, a cancelled computer game by Peter Molyneux
- BC class, a steam locomotive classification used by the New Zealand Railways Department
- BC Powder, brand name of pain reliever
- Backward compatibility, compatibility of new product with old product
- Ballistic coefficient, a measure of air drag on a projectile, the ratio of its sectional density to its coefficient of form
- Base curve radius, a parameter of a contact lens
- Basso Continuo, an accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period
- Bayonet cap, a fastening mechanism
- Bliss bibliographic classification, a library cataloguing system
- BookCrossing, "releasing books from your shelf into the world"
- Border Crossings, a musical radio show that airs on Voice of America
- Botswana, World Meteorological Organization and obsolete NATO country code (from the former name "Bechuanaland")
- Buoyancy compensator, a piece of scuba diving equipment
- World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, the expansion of the video game World of Warcraft