PDC

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PDC may stand for:

• Political parties:
  • Parti Démocrate-Chrétien Suisse (Switzerland)
  • Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Chile)
  • Partido Demócrata Cristiano (El Salvador)
• Partners for Democratic Change, a U.S. international development organization
• Personal Digital Cellular, a Japanese mobile phone standard
• Programme Delivery Control, a standard to control video recorders using codes transmitted in the teletext service.
• Primary Domain Controller, a Windows NT networking technology
• The Professional Darts Corporation, one of the two organisations that organises world darts competitions.
• Phi Delta Chi, a professional pharmacy fraternity.
• Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference
• Polycrystalline Diamond Compact, material used in drill bits for offshore oil and gas drilling
• Poverty Driven Children, a South London Gang
• Pyroclastic density current, a fluidized body of hot gas, ash and rock travelling along the ground which is produced by some explosive volcanic eruptions
• Pyruvate decarboxylase, a homotetrameric enzyme that catalyzes the decarboxylation of pyruvic acid to acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide.
• Pennsylvania German language, as PDC is its ISO/DIS 639-3 language code
• Social Movements
  • Primary Digestive Collectivism
• Partially Developed Country (similar to LEDCs)
• Program Development Cycle
• Pacific Disaster Center