PAC 272197 224688503 2008-07-09T23:49:26Z 68.5.206.236 {{wiktionary|PAC}} '''PAC''' may refer to: ==Business== *[[Pacific Aerospace Corporation]], an aircraft manufacturing company based in Hamilton, New Zealand *[[Pakistan Aeronautical Complex]], a military aircraft manufacturing facility in Pakistan *[[Planned Amortization Class]], a type of collateralized mortgage obligation *[[Polar Air Cargo]], a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, USA *[[Pacific Accessory Corporation]], a 12 Volt mobile electronics interface manufacturing company based in Santa Ana, California, USA ==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 *Pac-10, a college athletic [[Pacific-10 Conference]], which operates in the western United States *[[Panasonic Academic Challenge]], a 1988 establishment *[[Pocket Athletic Conference]], a high school athletic conference in Indiana *[[Postgraduate Applications Centre]], an organization in Ireland *[[Presidents' Athletic Conference]], an NCAA Division III athletic conference of small private colleges *[[Physician's assistant]]-Certified ==Entertainment== *[[Tupac Shakur]], an American hip-hop artist *[[Battlefield 2142|Pan Asian Coalition]], one of the two playable factions in the computer game Battlefield 2142 *[[Performing arts center]], a multi-use performance space *[[Portland Art Center]], an exhibition space in Portland, Oregon *[[Sean Waltman|X-Pac]], an American professional wrestler *[[Ben Satterly|PAC]], British professional wrestler Ben Satterly ==Politics== *[[Pan Africanist Congress]], a political party in South Africa *[[Partido Acción Ciudadana]], a political party in Costa Rica *[[Polish American Congress]], a national umbrella organization *[[Political action committee]], a group organized to elect or defeat political candidates *[[Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom)]], a parliamentary committee in the UK and other westminster systems responsible for overseeing government expenditures *[[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 ==Technology== *[[p1-derived artificial chromosome]], genomic research *[[PAC CT/4]], a basic training aircraft made by Pacific Aerospace *[[Parachute and Cable]], a British anti-aircraft weapon of WWII *[[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 *[[Activated carbon|Powdered activated carbon]], used as a sorbent *[[Presentation-abstraction-control]], a type of design pattern used in software engineering *[[Probably approximately correct learning]], a framework of learning that was proposed by Leslie Valiant in his paper ''A theory of the learnable'' *[[Programmable automation controller]], a compact controller that combines the features of a PC-based control system with that of a programmable logic controller *[[Proxy auto-config]], a web browser technology *[[Patriot Advanced Capability]], a software-only upgrade of the MIM-104 Patriot *[[OPAC|Public Access Catalog]] ==Mathematics== *[[Pseudo algebraically closed field]], a field with geometric features, namely each variety over it has a rational point ==Medicine== * Plasma [[aldosterone]] concentrations <!-- <ref>[http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1681.2005.04161.x Blackwell Synergy - Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol, Volume 32 Issue 1 ...]</ref> --> *[[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 <!-- <ref>[http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/6/1451 Therapeutic impact of pulmonary artery catheterization in a ...]</ref> --> ==Other== *[[Pac (family)]], a noble family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania *[[Pasukan Aturgerak Cepat]], a Malaysian armed forces unit *[[Parent-Adult-Child]], a model in transactional analysis *[[Perfect authentic cadence]], in music ==See also== *[[Pac-Man (disambiguation)]] *[[Pacific (disambiguation)]] *[[Primitive Apostolic Christianity]] *[[Public Affairs Council (disambiguation)]] {{disambig}} [[de:PAC]] [[es:PAC]] [[eo:PAC]] [[fr:PAC]] [[it:PAC]] [[ja:PAC]] [[no:Pac]] [[pt:PAC]] [[zh:PAC]]