PC

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Contents 1 Codification 2 People 3 Product identification 4 Organizations 5 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
• Posterior commissure, brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
• Presbyterian Church (USA), a Christian denomination
• Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation
  • Privy counsellor, a member of a privy council
• 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
• Personal computer, the primary computing device for consumers
• Prontor/Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization

[edit] 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
• "Partly cloudy", a weather forecast designation mostly used in North American english newspapers
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Product identification

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

[edit] 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 now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party
• Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario
• Porozumienie Centrum, now-defunct Polish right-wing political party

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

[edit] 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
• Professional corporation, frequently the corporate arrangement of law firms in the United States
• Public convenience, another name for a toilet
• Pocket ¢hange, a pricing game from The Price Is Right