NIC

NIC may refer to:

Banking and insurance companies

• National Insurance Corporation, Uganda
• NIC Bank, a commercial bank in Kenya

Politics, government and economics

• National Ice Center, an agency that provides worldwide navigational ice analyses for the United States military and government
• National Incubation Center, Ignite - National Technology Fund, Ministry of IT & Telecom, Government of Pakistan
• Natal Indian Congress, a political party in South Africa formed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• National Implementation Committee on FATA Reforms, a committee chaired by the Prime Minister of Pakistan regarding the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
• National Indigenous Council, an advisory body to the Australian Government from late 2004 to early 2008
• National Informatics Centre, Government of India
• National Infrastructure Commission, a UK government body advising on large-scale infrastructure projects
• National Institute of Corrections, a division of the United States Department of Justice
• National Insurance Contributions, UK contributions towards state benefits
• National Integration Council of India, to combat the problems of Communalism, casteism and Regionalism
• National Intelligence Council, center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the United States intelligence community
• National Irrigation Commission, Jamaica agricultural irrigation government commission
• Newly industrialized country, a socio-economic classification status used by political scientists
• Nicaragua, the ISO 3166-1 three-letter country code
• NIC Argentina, Network Information Center, an office of Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Niger–Congo languages, the ISO 639-2 three-letter language code
• NIC Inc. (eGov.com), an information service provider for federal and state government in the United States

Technology

• Negative impedance converter, configuration of an operational amplifier which acts as a negative load
• Network information center, formerly InterNIC, part of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS)
• Network interface controller, electronic hardware that enables a computer to communicate over a computer network
• New Internet Computer, former inexpensive Linux-based network computer

Science and medicine

• A brand name for the drug lorazepam
• Nomarski interference contrast, a technique in microscopy

Other topics

• National identity card (Sri Lanka), an identity document in Sri Lanka
• Nagoya International Center, a non-profit organization based in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Japan
• National Ice Centre, an ice and music arena in Nottingham, England
• New In Chess, a chess magazine issued eight times a year
• NIC Zuidlaren, an international horse riding competition in Zuidlaren, Netherlands
• The IATA airport code for Nicosia International Airport, an abandoned airport near Nicosia in Cyprus
• North Idaho College, a community college located in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
• North Island College, a community college complex on the northern half of Vancouver Island, Canada
• North American Interfraternity Conference, an association of collegiate men's fraternities formally organized in 1910
• Nursing Interventions Classification, a classification system for nursing

See also

• Nic, a given name
• Nick (disambiguation)
• Nix (disambiguation)