IC

1. Short for Integrated Circuit or Integrated Chip, the IC was first developed in 1958 by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce and is a package containing many circuits, pathways, transistors, and other electronic components all working together to perform a particular function or a series of functions. Integrated circuits are the building blocks of computer hardware.
2. In role-playing games, IC is short for In-Character. IC is used to describe a player that is playing and acting out the role in the game and not talking about things not related to the game or the era of the game.
3. In chat rooms, IC is shorthand for I see. May also be abbreviated as OIC, which is short for Oh I See. Below is an example of how this could be used in chat.

User1: What does CPU mean?
User2: Central Processing Unit
User1: OIC

Also see: Chat definitions, Circuit, Electronics definitions, Game definitions, OOC, PCB, RTC, ULSI