PLC

PLC or plc may refer to:

Business

• Public limited company, a type of limited company whose shares may be sold to the public
• Program length commercial, or infomercial
• Product life cycle, the succession of stages a product goes through
• Personal Line of Credit, credit extended by a financial institution to a customer

Education

• Performance Learning Center, one element of the Communities In Schools education network
• Presidents Leadership Class, a leadership institution for undergraduates at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• Platoon Leaders Class, a summer training program for college students given by the Officer Candidates School of the United States Marine Corps
• Presbyterian Ladies' College, the name or former name of several independent girls' schools in Australia, affiliated with either the Presbyterian Church of Australia or the Uniting Church in Australia
• Professional learning community, a movement in the education field of teachers sharing with teachers to improve learning among their students
• Pymble Ladies' College, an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Pymble, a suburb in the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Post Leaving Certificate, is an informal term describing a large range of courses and qualifications run in Ireland for students who have finished their secondary education

Medicine and psychology

• Peter Lougheed Centre, a hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Pityriasis lichenoides chronica, the chronic version of the immune system disease Pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta
• Phospholipase C, an enzyme which cleaves PI(4,5)P2 to form IP3 and diacylglycerol
• Pathological Laughing and Crying, a disorder of emotional expression due to brain conditions, distinct from normal emotional cause and effect
• Posterolateral Corner, a region of the human knee

Politics

• Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795), a federal monarchic republic formed by Poland and Lithuania
• Partido Liberal Colombiano, the Spanish name of the Colombian Liberal Party in Colombia
• Palestinian Legislative Council, law-making body of the Palestinian Authority
• Parti Libéral du Canada, the French name of the Liberal Party of Canada
• Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, the Spanish name of the Constitutional Liberal Party of Nicaragua
• Pennsylvania Leadership Conference
• Provisional Legislative Council, interim legislature of Hong Kong from 1997 to 1998

Science and technology

• Packet Loss Concealment, a technique to mask the effects of missing packets in VoIP communications
• Polymorphic Lambda Calculus, a typed lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism, also known as System F
• Portevin–Le Chatelier effect, the serrated portion of a stress strain curve
• Power line communication, including broadband PLC modes
• Programmable logic controller, a digital computer used for automation of industrial processes, such as machinery control in factories

Other uses

• Pigmy Love Circus, a Los Angeles-based rock band
• Pine Lake Camp, a Salvation Army camp in Alberta, Canada
• Plastic
• Psycho le Cému, a Japanese visual kei rock band
• Pet Lovers Club