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ATC or atc may refer to:

Transportation and military

Aviation

• Air traffic control, a service provided to aircraft by ground-based controllers
  • Air traffic controller, people who expedite and maintain a safe and orderly flow of air traffic in the global air traffic control system
• Air Tanzania Corporation, the former state-owned airline of Tanzania

Rail

• Automatic train control, a safety system for railways
• Automatic and Track Control, a tokenless form of safeworking on single rail lines used in Victoria, Australia
• Atlanta Transit Company, a former rail operator in Georgia, United States

Other uses in civilian transportation

• Advanced transportation controller, a standardization effort as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent transportation system
• All-terrain cycle, a type of all-terrain vehicle
• Alvarado Transportation Center, an intermodal transit center in New Mexico
• American Truck Company, an American importer and/or assembler of Tatra and Kraz trucks
• Automatic traffic counter; see Traffic count
• American Tractor Corporation, a 1950 manufacturer of crawler tractors which merged into Case
• Automobile and Touring Club for United Arab Emirates, a member of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

Military

• Armored Troop Carrier (LCM), used in the Vietnam War
• Air Transport Command, a United States Army Air Force command during World War II
• Air Training Command, the predecessor to Air Education and Training Command in the U.S. Air Force
• Air Training Corps, United Kingdom, for cadets
• New Zealand Air Training Corps, for cadets

Education

• Academy for Technology and the Classics, a charter school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
• Advanced Technology College, a community college in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
• Aiken Technical College, a community college in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States
• Applied Technology College, one of several campuses in the Utah College of Applied Technology system
• Ambrose Treacy College, a high school in Brisbane, Australia

Science and technology

• UK Astronomy Technology Centre, a part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council based at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Automatic tool changer, a mechanism allowing CNC machines to switch cutting tools without operator intervention
• American Thermoplastic Company, an American plastics manufacturer
• American Tobacco Campus, a former property of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Applied Technology Council, a nonprofit organization that studies the effects of hazards on the built environment (founded 1973)

Biology and medicine

• ATC, a codon for the amino acid isoleucine
• Acute traumatic coagulopathy, in hematology
• Anaplastic thyroid cancer, a form of thyroid cancer
• Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a WHO drug classification system
• Athletic Trainer Certified, a healthcare professional board-certified in athletic training

Telecommunications

See also: § Television and radio

• Altice (company), a Luxembourg-based multinational telecoms company by Euronext stock symbol
• Ancillary Terrestrial Component, a U.S. Federal Communications Commission-approved technique for using a network of cell-phone towers to supplement a Mobile Satellite Service
• Australian Telecommunications Corporation, formerly Australian Telecommunications Commission
• Audio Tele-Conference, a telephone call with several participants

Computing and linguistics

• ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference, an annual peer-reviewed conference
• Automatic taxonomy construction, a branch of natural language processing, which applies software programs to generate taxonomical classifications from a body of texts
• Atsahuaca language (ISO 639-3 code: atc)

Electronics

• American Technology Corporation, a former name for LRAD Corporation, a sound technology company
• ATC (loudspeaker manufacturer), or Acoustic Transducer Company, a British loudspeaker and electronic equipment manufacturer

Arts, business, and media

• Armacham Technology Corporation, a fictional technology developer in the video game F.E.A.R.
• Auckland Theatre Company, professional theatre company, New Zealand
• Artist trading cards, individual fine art miniatures
• All Things Comedy, a comedy company and podcast aggregate
• Against the Current (band), an American pop rock band
• A Touch of Class (band), a pop music group from Germany and the UK (1999–2003)

Business

• Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, a World Trade Organization regulation for trade in textiles and garments
• Average total cost, in economics
• Alabang Town Center, a shopping mall in Muntinlupa, Philippines
• 'Any to Come', a type of conditional bet; See Glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers
• American-Turkish Council, a business association promoting U.S.-Turkey relations

Television and radio

• All Things Considered, a news show on National Public Radio in the United States
• Argentina Televisora Color, a former name for Televisión Pública, a television network in Argentina

Athletics

• Appalachian Trail Conservancy, an American nonprofit organization
• Atlanta Track Club, a nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia
• SV Atlétiko Tera Corá, a Bonaire football club
• ATC (belay device), a type of belay device for rock climbing

Other uses

• Authorization to Carry, a permit issued in Canada to carry Restricted firearms and Prohibited handguns
• Aquarian Tabernacle Church, a Wiccan church (founded 1979)

See also

• Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCK), adults who as children grew up in a culture other than their parents'
• All pages with titles beginning with ATC
• All pages with titles containing ATC