PC
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PC or pc may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- Player character or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games
- Port Charles, an American daytime TV soap opera
- Production code number, a designation used to identify television episodes
- Pretty Cure, a Japanese anime franchise
Business and finance
- Percentage (pc), numeric ratio signifier
- Prime cost or variable cost
- Principal Consultant, a management consulting position
- Professional corporation, a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc.)
Organizations
Businesses
- Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts, a hotel chain in Pakistan
- Pirelli & C. (stock symbol: PC)
- President's Choice, a private label product brand of the Canadian supermarket chain Loblaw Companies
- PC Mobile, a Canadian mobile virtual network operator
- PC Optimum, a Canadian rewards program
- President's Choice Financial, a Canadian financial services provider
Government bodies
- Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the United States government
- Philippine Constabulary, a defunct police force
- Libyan Presidential Council
- Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation
- Putnam City Schools, school district in Oklahoma
Political parties
- Colorado Party (disambiguation)
- Partido Comunista (disambiguation)
- Partidul Conservator, a Romanian conservative party
- Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist political party
- Porozumienie Centrum, a now-defunct Polish right-wing political party
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a defunct Canadian federal political party
- Progressive Canadian Party, a party made up of former members of the Progressive Conservative party
- Several current and former provincial political parties of Canada:
- Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (1905–2017)
- Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick (1867– )
- Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador (1949– )
- Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia (1867– )
- Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (1854– )
- Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island (1851– )
- Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec (1982–1989)
- Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (1978–1991)
Religious denominations
- Presbyterian Church
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Schools
- ESPCI, an engineering school in France, also referred to as Physique-Chimie
- Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
- Phoenix College, a community college in Arizona, US
- Pickering College, an independent, co-educational K-12 school in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
- Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
- Port Charlotte High School, in Florida, US
- Port Credit Secondary School, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina, US
- Providence College, in Rhode Island, US
- Prempeh College, in Ashanti Region, Ghana
Law enforcement
- Police Constable, a police rank
- Protective custody, a type of imprisonment or care to protect a person from harm
- Probable cause, reasonable grounds (for making a search, pressing a charge, etc.)
- Police commissioner, the chief manager of a police entity
- Penal code, the legal code in some jurisdictions that define crimes
People
- PC (footballer) (born 1994), from Brazil
- PC Chris, former professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player, named after Port Chester, New York
- Priyanka Chopra, an Indian actress, model and singer
Places
United States
- Park City, Utah
- Panama City, Florida
- Panorama City, Los Angeles, a district in the San Fernando Valley
- Port Charlotte, Florida
- Port Chester, New York
Other places
- Pacific Centre, a shopping mall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Pacific Coast
- Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 country code)
- Panama City, the capital of Panama
- Pitcairn Islands (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code)
- Port Credit, a neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Serbia or the Republika Srpska, both of which can be abbreviated in Cyrillic to PC
Science, technology, and mathematics
Chemistry
- Phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid
- Polycarbonate, a plastic polymer
- Propylene carbonate, a polar organic solvent
- Pyruvate carboxylase, an enzyme
Computing
- Personal computer, a general-purpose computer for individuals
- IBM PC compatible, a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
- an IBM PC specifically running Microsoft Windows
- IBM PC compatible, a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
- Programmable controller (disambiguation)
- Pica (typography) (pc), a typographic unit of measure
- Program counter, a special register inside CPUs
Mathematics
- Path connected, a concept in mathematical topology
- Precalculus, a level in math education
- Polynomial chaos, a concept in stochastic mathematics
- Principal component
Medicine and psychology
Anatomical structures
- Posterior commissure, a brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
- Pubococcygeus muscle
- Parietal cell
Diseases
- Pachyonychia congenita, a genetic skin disorder
- Pancreatic cancer
- Prostate cancer
Other uses in medicine and psychology
- Palliative care, specialised care for people with serious illnesses
- Perceived control, a psychological concept
- Post cibum (Latin for "after food"), in medical prescriptions
- Primary care
- Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging
Physics and cosmology
- Parsec (pc), a unit of distance used in astronomy
- Picocoulomb (pC), a unit of electrostatic charge
- Petacoulomb (PC), a unit of electrostatic charge
- Photonic crystal, a photonic band gap material
Other uses in science and technology
- PC, a type of Mazda C engine
- Prestressed concrete, a method for overcoming concrete's natural weakness in tension
- Progressive contextualization, a scientific method
- Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization
- Perspective Control, photographic lens arrangement for reducing keystone distortion
Transport
- Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
- Penn Central, a railroad in the United States
- Two US Navy hull classification symbols: Patrol craft (PC) and Patrol craft coastal (PC)
- Pegasus Airlines (IATA code: PC)
Other uses
- Political correctness, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
- President's Counsel, a lawyer's rank in Sri Lanka
- Pro-choice, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy
- Proto-Celtic, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
See also
- Piece (disambiguation)
- P.C. Hooftstraat, a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Tandy Pocket Computer
- PCS (disambiguation)
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