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PIC

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Pic is French for summit (or peak), and


thus appears in a number of mountain
names.

PIC or pic may also refer to:

Places
Penbay International Circuit, or PIC, a
motor track circuit in Pingtung County,
Taiwan
Pic du Midi de Bigorre
Pic River, in Ontario, Canada
Picayune (Amtrak station) (Amtrak
station code PIC), Mississippi, United
States
Pictor, a southern constellation

Persons
Anne-Sophie Pic, French cook
Charles Pic, French Formula One driver
Maurice Pic, French entomologist,
specialising mainly in Coleoptera
Tina Pic, American racing cyclist
Enterprises and
organizations
Phoenix Iron Company, a former
manufacturer, items may be marked
PIC
Poison information center, a medical
facility used for cases of exposure to
poisonous or hazardous substances
Prison–industrial complex, interest
groups that represent organizations
that do business in correctional
facilities
Public Investment Corporation, a South
African state-owned firm that is
Africa's largest asset manager.
Government and politics
Palestinian Information Center, a
Palestinian news website
Partido Independiente de Color, a
former Cuban political party
Peace Implementation Council, an
international body charged with
implementing the Dayton Peace
Agreement for Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Population Investigation Committee, a
United Kingdom social research group
founded in 1936
Provincial Iraqi Control, an objective of
the Iraqi Government and Multi-
National Forces in Iraq
Law and policy
Plan inclusive counterplan, a
counterplan presented by the
opponent in a policy debate
Predesignated Interexchange Carrier, a
U.S. legal and regulatory term for a
telecommunications company
Prior informed consent, a legal
condition

Medicine and biochemistry


Peripherally inserted central catheter,
an intravenous access that can be
used for a prolonged period of time
Pre-integration complex, a complex of
proteins and genetic material used by
the virus HIV
Transcription preinitiation complex, a
large complex of proteins necessary
for transcription of protein-coding
genes in eukaryotes

Technology
Particle-in-cell, a technique used to
solve certain partial differential
equations
Personal Internet Communicator, a
device by AMD to allow access to the
internet
Photonic integrated circuit, a device
that integrates multiple photonic
functions
Pic language, a domain-specific
language for specifying diagrams
PIC microcontroller, a family of
Harvard architecture microcontrollers
made by Microchip Technology
(generally thought to mean Peripheral
Interface Controller, was initially
Programmable Interface Controller,
and currently stands for
Programmable Intelligent Computer)
PICtor PIC image format, an image file
format developed in the 1980s for
PCPaint
Pixar Image Computer, a high-end
graphics designing computer made by
Pixar in the 1980s
Plastic identification code, a symbol
used to identify types of plastic for
recycling
Polymorphic Inline Cache, a virtual
machine optimization-technology
Position-independent code, machine
instruction code that executes properly
regardless of where in memory it
resides
Programmable integrated circuit, see
Programmable logic device, an
electronic component
Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier,
the interexchange carrier to which calls
from a subscriber line are routed by
default
Programmable Interrupt Controller, a
device which allows priority levels to
be assigned to its interrupt outputs

Other uses
Paid-in-capital, the capital contributed
to a corporation by investors on top of
the par value of capital stock
Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention,
an international instrument between
countries and pharmaceutical
inspection authorities
Picard group in algebraic geometry, the
group of isomorphism classes of
invertible sheaves on a ringed space
Piccadilly line, or "The Pic", on the
London Underground
Pilot in command, a person aboard
aircraft that is responsible for its
operation and safety during flight

See also
Picture (common abbreviation)
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