PIC

PIC or pic can refer to:

Government and politics

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
Palestinian Information Center, a Palestinian news website

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

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

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
Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier, the interexchange carrier to which calls from a subscriber line are routed by default
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
Programmable Interrupt Controller, a device which allows priority levels to be assigned to its interrupt outputs

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

Penbay International Circuit, a motor track circuit in Pingtung County, Taiwan
Picayune (Amtrak station) (Amtrak station code PIC), Mississippi, United States
Pic is French for Peak and thus appears in a number of mountain names (e.g. Pic du Midi de Bigorre)
Pic River, in Ontario, Canada

Pictor, a southern constellation
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
The Picard group in algebraic geometry, the group of isomorphism classes of invertible sheaves on a ringed space
Pilot in command, a person aboard aircraft that is responsible for its operation and safety during flight
The Pic – the Piccadilly line on the London Underground