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Contents 1 Engineering, mathematics, science and technology 2 Codification 3 People 4 Title 5 Product identification 6 Organizations 7 Other initialisms

PC may stand for:

• Political correctness, language that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
• Police Constable (also Pc), in the UK and Canada
• Presbyterian Church (USA), a Christian denomination
• Privy Council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation (see also Queen's Privy Council for Canada)
• Pro-choice, a self-description used by people who believe that women should have the legal right to have an abortion
• Proto-Celtic language, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages

Engineering, mathematics, science and technology

• Personal computer, a microcomputer whose price, size, and capabilities make it suitable for personal usage; most commonly, it refers to an IBM PC compatible, making IBM responsible for popularizing the term "PC" in 1981.

• Principal component, in mathematics: vectors and mathematical statistics (also PC1, PC2 etc.)

In engineering, computer science and technology:

• Pocket computer, a small programmable calculator
• Program counter, a special type of register in a computer
• Programmable Controller (PLC), a type of electrical engineering circuit components in the subfield of Control and Automation or Feedback and Control
• petacoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 10^{15 coulombs}
• Photonic crystal, periodic dielectric or metallo-dielectric (nano)structures
• Polycarbonate, a particular group of thermoplastics
• Propylene carbonate, a polar organic solvent
• Pubococcygeus muscle, a muscle in the human body

• Prontor/Compur, a jack or plug for providing flash synchronization to a camera
• Printed Circuit, usually in the context of PC board or PC card
• Phrozen Crew, a group of computer software crackers

As technological units: pc may mean:

• parsec, an astronomical unit of distance (from "parallax-second")
• Percent or per cent

pC may mean:

• picocoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 10^{-12 coulomb}

As Law enforcement language: pc may mean:

• Probable Cause, a judicially acceptable reason for taking action such as a traffic stop or entering a residence

Codification

• Pacific Islands Trust Territory: ISO 3166 country code (obsolete since 1986; was split into Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau)
• "Patrol, Coastal", a US Navy hull classification symbol
• Penn Central, a railroad in the United States (AAR reporting mark PC)
• Pitcairn Islands: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
• Production code, a designation used to identify television episodes

People

• P. Chidambaram, finance minister of India
• Patrick Carpenter, a D.J. and one of the collaborators in the Ninja Tune recording outfit, DJ Food
• Pierre Cardin, fashion designer
• Frank PC (Howles), production coordinator at TGI Friday's 2001-2004

Title

• Privy Counsellor, a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
• Privy Counsellor, a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada

Product identification

• A specific type of Mazda piston engine
• President's Choice, a private label brand of Loblaw Companies Limited

Organizations

In political parties:

• Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist political party
• Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party
• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a Canadian centre-right conservative political party
• Privy Counsellor, UK honour given by HM the Queen, permits use of title Right Honourable

Other institutions:

• Phoenix College, a community college in Phoenix, Arizona
• Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina
• Providence College, a private four-year Catholic college in Providence, Rhode Island] USA

Other initialisms

• Piano concerto, a concerto for solo piano and orchestra
• Picture Cover, a method of book binding in which the cover of the book has a picture relating to the contents
• Player character or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player
• post cibum (Latin for "after meals"), a medical prescription shorthand
• Postcard or postal card, a typically piece of paper intended for mailing
• Variable cost or prime cost, items that a client hasn’t specifically selected at the time of the contract but the builder or trades person has made an allowance for in the total price
• Process Control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms, and algorithms
• Public convenience, another name for a toilet

 

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