PC

PC or pc may refer to:

Computing

• Personal computer, a general-purpose computer for individuals
• Programmable controller (disambiguation)
• Pica (typography) (pc), a typographic unit of measure
• Program counter, a special register inside CPUs

Science

• Path connected, a concept in mathematical topology

Chemistry

• Phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid
• Polycarbonate, a plastic polymer
• Propylene carbonate, a polar organic solvent
• Pyruvate carboxylase, an enzyme

Medicine

• Palliative care, a multidisciplinary approach to specialised care for people with serious illnesses
• Pachyonychia congenita, a genetic skin disorder
• Pancreatic cancer
• Post cibum (Latin for "after food"), a medical prescription shorthand
• Pubococcygeus muscle

Physics

• 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
• Progressive contextualization, a scientific method

Psychology

• Perceived control, a psychological concept

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)

United States

• Panama City, Florida
• Panorama City, Los Angeles, a district in the San Fernando Valley
• Port Charlotte, Florida

Transport

• Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
• Penn Central, a railroad in the United States
• Patrol, Coastal, a US Navy hull classification symbol

Technology

• Prestressed concrete, a method for overcoming concrete's natural weakness in tension
• Production code number, a designation used to identify television episodes
• Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization
• PC, a type of Mazda C engine

Organizations

• Philippine Constabulary, a defunct police force
• Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the United States government
• Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts, a hotel chain in Pakistan
• Presbyterian Church, a Christian denomination
  • Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) or PC(USA), a Christian denomination

Politics

• Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation
  • Queen's Privy Council for Canada
  • Privy Council of the United Kingdom
• List of Communist parties
• Partido Comunista (disambiguation)
• Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist political party
• Porozumienie Centrum, a now-defunct Polish right-wing political party
• Partidul Conservator, a Romanian conservative party

Canadian parties

• Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party
• Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Alberta
• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a now-defunct political party
• Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario

Education

• Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
• Phoenix College, a community college in Arizona, US
• ESPCI, an engineering school in France, also referred to as Physique-Chimie
• 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

Law, economics and business

• Percentage (pc), used in the case of quantities in economics
• Police Constable, a police rank
• President's Counsel, a professional rank
• Prime cost or variable cost
• Professional corporation, a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc.)
• Protective custody, a type of imprisonment or care to protect a person from harm
• Principal Consultant, a management consulting position
• PC is the stock symbol of Pirelli & C.

Other uses

• Player character or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games
• Political correctness, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
• Port Charles, an American daytime TV soap opera
• Proto-Celtic, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
• Pro-choice, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy
• President's Choice, a private label product brand

See also

• P.C. Hooftstraat, a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Tandy Pocket Computer (PC-1 etc.)
• PCS (disambiguation)