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1 a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, flick]

2 a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material [syn: photograph, photo, exposure]

English

Etymology

Shortening of pic(ture).

Noun

pic (Plural: pics or pix)

1. a picture, especially a digital one.

PIC or Pic can refer to the following:

Technology

• Personal Internet Communicator
• Pic language (computer image description language)
• PIC microcontroller by Microchip, Inc.
• PICtor PIC image format
• Plastic identification code
• Photonic integrated circuit
• Polyisocyanurate
• Polymorphic Inline Cache, a Virtual Machine optimization-technology
• Position independent code (computers)
• Predesignated Interexchange Carrier
• Programmable Integrated Circuit
• Programmable Interrupt Controller

Biochemistry

• Preinitiation complex (genetics)
• Preintegration complex (virology)

Other

It may also refer to:

• Participant Identification Code, registration number for FP7
• Partido Independiente de Color, Cuban political party
• Particle-in-cell
• Peace Implementation Council
• Peripherally inserted central catheter
• Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention
• Picture
• Pic (Star Wars)
• Picayune (Amtrak station), Mississippi, United States; Amtrak station code PIC
• Pic River, in Ontario, Canada
• Pictor, a constellation
• Pilot in command (aviation)
• Plan inclusive counterplan
• Poison Information Center
• Prior Informed Consent (negociation)
• Partners in Crime, an episode of the 2008 series of Doctor Who
• Partner in Charge, in firm of architects