PAC
Encyclopedia
People
- Ben Satterly (PAC), a British professional wrestler
- Pac (family)Pac (family)Pac was one of the most influential noble families in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the era of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Numerous high ranking officials of the Commonwealth came from their ranks. Their coat of arms was Gozdawa....
, a noble family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Sean WaltmanSean WaltmanSean Michael Waltman is an American professional wrestler currently signed with WWE in their developmental program. He wrestled there under the ring names 1–2–3 Kid and X-Pac off and on from 1993–2002, World Championship Wrestling under the ring name Syxx, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ...
(X-Pac), an American professional wrestler - Tupac ShakurTupac ShakurTupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...
, an American hip-hop artist
Political
- Peoples' Aman CommitteePeoples' Aman CommitteeThe Peoples' Aman Committee or Peoples' Peace Committee is a social welfare and political organization based in the neighbourhood of Lyari in Karachi, Pakistan. The PAC was founded by the infamous Karachi gangster Rehman Dakait in 2008 and is accused of being involved in organized crime and gang...
, criminal gang and welfare group associated with Pakistan Peoples PartyPakistan Peoples PartyThe Pakistan Peoples Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. Pakistan People's Party is the largest political party of Pakistan... - Political Action CommitteePolitical action committeeIn the United States, a political action committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group, regardless of size, organized to elect political candidates or to advance the outcome of a political issue or legislation. Legally, what constitutes a "PAC" for purposes of regulation is a...
, private group organized to elect or defeat political candidates (USA). - Pan Africanist Congress, a political party in South Africa
- Partido Acción CiudadanaPartido Acción CiudadanaPartido Acción Ciudadana may refer to:* Citizens' Action Party* Party for Citizen Action...
, 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)Public Accounts Committee (India)The Public Accounts Committee is a committee of selected members of Parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the auditing of the expenditure of the Government of India....
, a parliamentary committee in India that examines government accounts and considers the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Public Affairs Committee (Malawi)Public Affairs Committee (Malawi)Public Affairs Committee was founded in 1992 by the religious community and other pressure groups in Malaŵi to enter into a dialogue with Kamuzu Banda's Presidential Committee on Dialogue in the transition period from the one-party to the multiparty system of government in Malaŵi...
, a political organization in Malawi - Armed Proletarians for CommunismArmed Proletarians for CommunismArmed Proletarians for Communism was an Italian far-left armed group founded in 1976 and disbanded three years later, during the "Years of Lead ."- History :...
(Proletari Armati per il Comunismo), an Italian far-left terrorist group of the 1970s
Education
- Partnerships in Academic CommunitiesPartnerships in Academic CommunitiesPartnerships in Academic Communities is the only school program in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district that works with public schools along with a university and provides a scholarship as a reward for passing students enrolled in the program....
, a program in Miami, Florida that awards scholarships to those enrolled - Prince Alfred CollegePrince Alfred CollegePrince Alfred College is an independent, day and boarding school for boys, located on Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town, near the centre of Adelaide, South Australia...
, an independent day and boarding school for boys, located in Adelaide, South Australia - Panasonic Academic ChallengePanasonic Academic ChallengeThe National Tournament of Academic Excellence is one of a small number of national competitions that is held in June for high school quizbowl teams in the United States. The NTAE has been run in June of each year since 1988...
, a national competition (USA) - Postgraduate Applications CentrePostgraduate Applications CentrePostgraduate Applications Centre is an organisation that processes applications for large number of postgraduate courses in the Republic of Ireland....
, an organization in Ireland - Professionals' Academy of CommerceProfessionals' Academy of CommerceThe Professionals' Academy of Commerce is an accountancy school in Pakistan. It was established to provide a great knowledge of accounting and finance in Pakistan.- History :PAC was established in 1987 by Mr. Ishfaq Ahmed in Lahore...
, 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 ConferencePocket Athletic ConferenceThe Pocket Athletic Conference is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Its members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools located in Dubois, Gibson, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, and Warrick counties. Only one, Tecumseh, is a 1A...
, a high school athletic conference in Indiana - Presidents' Athletic ConferencePresidents' Athletic ConferenceThe Presidents' Athletic Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are private, liberal arts institutions of higher learning located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky....
, an NCAA Division III athletic conference of small private colleges - Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, former name of the Colonial States Athletic ConferenceColonial States Athletic ConferenceThe Colonial States Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference in the Mid-Atlantic United States. There are currently twelve full member institutions as of 2008. The conference's membership, as with most Middle Atlantic conferences, has been shaken up as a result...
, an NCAA Division III collegiate athletic conference
Other
- Pacific Aerospace Corporation, an aircraft manufacturing company based in Hamilton, New Zealand
- Pakistan Aeronautical ComplexPakistan Aeronautical ComplexThe Pakistan Aeronautical Complex is a facility used to service, assemble and manufacture aircraft for the Pakistani Armed Forces...
, a military aircraft manufacturing facility in Pakistan - Panasonic Avionics CorporationPanasonic Avionics CorporationPanasonic Avionics Corporation is a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation and is headquartered in Lake Forest, California with major business functions also shared with the former headquarters located in Bothell, WA.Established in 1980, the product engineering and development departments are...
, a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation - Polar Air CargoPolar Air CargoFor the Russian aviation company see: Polar AirlinesPolar Air Cargo Worldwide, Inc. is an American cargo airline based in Purchase, Harrison, New York, USA. It operates scheduled all-cargo services to North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East...
, a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, USA - Programa de Aceleração do CrescimentoPrograma de Aceleração do CrescimentoPrograma de Aceleração do Crescimento is a major investment plan of the Government of Brazil. The plan was announced in 2007 by President Lula....
, an investment plan in Brazil - Pasukan Aturgerak Cepat, a Malaysian armed forces unit
- Provincial Armed Constabulary, a title used by some State Armed Police ForcesState Armed Police ForcesThe State Armed Police Forces of India are the police units for dealing with serious law and order situations requiring a higher level of armed expertise than normal. The State Armed Police Forces exist in addition to the ordinary police services of the various states.All states have different...
in India - Polish American CongressPolish American CongressThe Polish American Congress is a U.S. umbrella organization of Polish-Americans and Polish-American organizations.Its membership is composed of fraternal, educational, veterans, religious, cultural, social, business, and political organizations, as well as individuals.As of January 2009, it lists...
, a national umbrella organization (USA) - Political Advisory Committee, a committee that evaluates new experiment proposals for particle acceleratorParticle acceleratorA particle accelerator is a device that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to high speeds and to contain them in well-defined beams. An ordinary CRT television set is a simple form of accelerator. There are two basic types: electrostatic and oscillating field accelerators.In...
s - PAC Engineering & Contracting Service Pty Ltd, a mining maintenance company, based in Australia.
Music and entertainment
- Perfect authentic cadence, in music
- Performing arts centerPerforming arts centerPerforming arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is used to refer to* A multi-use performance space that is intended for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre....
, a multi-use performance space - 2Pac, an American rapper
Science and technology
- Parachute and Cable, a British anti-aircraft weapon of WWII
- Patriot Advanced Capability, a software-only upgrade of the MIM-104 PatriotMIM-104 PatriotThe MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations. It is manufactured by the Raytheon Company of the United States. The Patriot System replaced the Nike Hercules system as the U.S. Army's primary High to Medium...
- Perceptual Audio Coding, an audio compression algorithm
- Porting Authorisation CodePorting Authorisation CodePorting Authorisation Code is a unique identifier used by some mobile network operators to facilitate mobile number portability . This allows users to retain their mobile telephone number when switching operators.-United Kingdom:Telecommunications service is regulated in the UK by Ofcom...
, a unique identifier which telephone network providers issue to a customer so they can port their number to another network - Powdered activated carbonActivated carbonActivated carbon, also called activated charcoal, activated coal or carbo activatus, is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions.The word activated in the name is sometimes replaced...
, used as a sorbent - Process Analytical ChemistryProcess analytical chemistryProcess Analytical Chemistry ', is similar to Process Analytical Technology ' has its origins as a specialized form of analytical chemistry used for process manufacturing...
, covering all technological efforts leading to automatic analytics in order to control processes in chemical industry - Programmable automation controllerProgrammable automation controllerA programmable automation controller ' is a compact controller that combines the features and capabilities of a PC-based control system with that of a typical programmable logic controller . PACs are most often used in industrial settings for process control, data acquisition, remote equipment...
, a compact controller that combines the features of a PC-based control system with that of a programmable logic controller - Pseudo algebraically closed fieldPseudo algebraically closed fieldIn mathematics, a field K is pseudo algebraically closed if it satisfies certain properties which hold for any algebraically closed field.-Formulation:...
(mathematics), a field with geometric features, namely each variety over it has a rational point - Pure and Applied ChemistryPure and Applied ChemistryPure and Applied Chemistry is the official journal for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. It is published monthly and contains recommendations and reports, and lectures from symposia....
, the official monthly journal of IUPAC
Medicine and biology
- P1-derived artificial chromosomeP1-derived artificial chromosomeThe P1-derived artificial chromosome are DNA constructs that are derived from the DNA of P1 bacteriophage. They can carry large amounts of other sequences for a variety of bioengineering purposes...
, genomic research - ProanthocyanidinProanthocyanidinProanthocyanidins, also known as OPCs or condensed tannins, are a subgroup of the flavonoid class of polyphenols...
, a type of flavonoids - Plasma aldosteroneAldosteroneAldosterone is a hormone that increases the reabsorption of sodium ions and water and the release of potassium in the collecting ducts and distal convoluted tubule of the kidneys' functional unit, the nephron. This increases blood volume and, therefore, increases blood pressure. Drugs that...
concentration - Premature atrial contractionPremature atrial contractionPremature atrial contractions , also known as atrial premature complexes or atrial premature beats , are a common cardiac arrhythmia characterized by premature heartbeats originating in the atria...
, a type of premature heart beat or irregular heart beat or arrhythmia which start in the upper two chambers of the heart - Primary auditory cortexPrimary auditory cortexThe primary auditory cortex is the region of the brain that is responsible for the processing of auditory information. Corresponding roughly with Brodmann areas 41 and 42, it is located on the temporal lobe, and performs the basics of hearing—pitch and volume...
, a brain region that is heavily involved with the processing of auditory (sound) information - Pulmonary artery catheterization
- Physician AssistantPhysician assistantA physician assistant/associate ' is a healthcare professional trained and licensed to practice medicine with limited supervision by a physician.-General description:...
-Certified
Computers
- Presentation-abstraction-controlPresentation-abstraction-controlPresentation–abstraction–control is a software architectural pattern. It is an interaction-oriented software architecture, and is somewhat similar to model–view–controller in that it separates an interactive system into three types of components responsible for specific aspects of the...
, a type of design pattern used in software engineering - Proxy auto-configProxy auto-configA proxy auto-config file defines how web browsers and other user agents can automatically choose the appropriate proxy server for fetching a given URL....
, a web browser technology - Online public access catalog, or OPAC, or Library Catalog
- Probably approximately correct learningProbably approximately correct learningIn computational learning theory, probably approximately correct learning is a framework for mathematical analysis of machine learning. It was proposed in 1984 by Leslie Valiant....
, 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 ItaniumItaniumItanium is a family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture . Intel markets the processors for enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems...
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 2142Battlefield 2142Battlefield 2142 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Illusions CE and produced by Electronic Arts . It is the fourth game in the Battlefield series...
- Pac-ManPac-Manis an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...
, 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
See also
- Pac-Man (disambiguation)Pac-Man (disambiguation)Pac-Man is a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco and the name of its titular character.Pac-Man may also refer to:* Pac-Man , a famous 1982 port of the arcade game for the Atari 2600...
- Pacific (disambiguation)Pacific (disambiguation)-Geography:* The Pacific Ocean, largest ocean in the world**Pacific Rim, political and economic term used to designate the countries on the edges of the Pacific Ocean as well as the various island nations within the region...
- Primitive Apostolic Christianity (disambiguation)
- Public Affairs Council (disambiguation)Public Affairs Council (disambiguation)The Public Affairs Council is an association for public affairs professionals in the United States.Public Affairs Council may also refer to:In Islam:...