title: NIC
text: # 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
  * National Iranian Congress, a political organization founded in U.S.-based for a free and democratic Iranian
  * 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
  
  * "NIC", a song by Nines (rapper)
  * 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
  