LOC

LOC, L.O.C., Loc, LoC, or locs may refer to:

Aviation

• Localizer, a component of an Instrument Landing System
• Loss of control, a catastrophic condition in jet aircraft operations that results in the loss of control of the aircraft

Film, television, video

• LOC Kargil, film
• Steel Battalion: Line of Contact, videogame
• Fictional character OG Loc in Grand Theft Auto game

Literature

• Lord of Chaos, novel

Military

• Line of Control, a line which demarcates the boundary between Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir
• Line of communication, in the military
• Lock out chamber, a submarine diving chamber used for Special Operations Forces/Diver lock out

Organizations

• Library of Congress, the national library of the United States
• LeMoyne-Owen College, a historically black college located in Memphis, Tennessee
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Liga Obrera Comunista, or Communist Workers League (Spain), a Trotskyist group in Spain active from 1976–1990
• Loc Publishing, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
• Love of Crips, or League of Crips, a gang abbreviation

People

• Laughlin Phillips, nicknamed Loc, an American museum director
• L.O.C. (rapper) (born 1979), real name Liam O'Connor, Danish rapper
• Goldie Loc (born 1980) real name Keiwan Deshawn Spillman, American rapper
• Tone Lōc (born 1966), American hiphop artist and director
• Spider Loc (born 1979), American rapper
• Leftöver Crack, American ska-punk band

Places

• Loc River (disambiguation)
• Lócs, a village in Vas county, Hungary.
• Lóc, the Hungarian name for Loţu village, Sângeorgiu de Pădure town, Mureş County, Romania

Science, technology, and medicine

• Lab-on-a-chip, a term for devices that integrate multiple laboratory functions on a single chip
• Launch off capture, a method of integrated circuit testing using scan chain
• Length of cut, the length of the sharpened portion of an end mill's flutes
• Level of care, a category of health care based on resource intensity
• Level of consciousness, a medical assessment of a patient's degree of consciousness
• Limiting oxygen concentration, a concept in fire safety engineering
• Limit of convection, the equilibrium level (the height at which a rising parcel of air is at the same temperature as its environment)
• Lines of code, that is, source lines of code (a software metric used to measure the complexity of a software program)
• LOC record, geolocation information resource record in Domain Name System
• Loss of consciousness, that is, unconsciousness
• Loss-of-coolant accident, a mode of failure for a nuclear reactor

Finance

• Line of credit
• Letter of credit

Miscellaneous

• Look out circular, a message used by interpol in India to stop wanted people from leaving the country
• Life Orientation Course (Scientology)
• Slang for dreadlocks