PC

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Contents 1 Science and medicine 2 Law, politics, and business 3 Transport and places 4 People 5 Product identification 6 Organizations 6.1 Political parties 6.2 Educational institutions 6.3 Other 7 Art and entertainment 8 Other initialisms

PC most commonly refers to:

• Personal computer, a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals
• Political correctness, language that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense

PC may also stand for:

[edit] Science and medicine

• Pachyonychia congenita, a genetic skin disorder
• Parsec, an astronomical measure of distance
• Path connected, a concept in mathematical topology where two points are linked with a path
• Phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid
• Photonic crystal, a photonic band gap material
• Polycarbonate, a plastic polymer
• Posterior commissure, brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
• Progressive contextualization, a scientific method
• Pubococcygeus muscle
• post cibum (Latin for "after meals"), a medical prescription shorthand

[edit] Law, politics, and business

• Police Constable, a police rank used in Britain and some Commonwealth countries
• President's Counsel (Sri Lanka), a legal position in Sri Lanka
• Principal Consultant, a management consulting position
• Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation
  • Privy councillor, a member of a privy council
• Prime cost or variable 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, a special corporate form for licensed professionals, such as attorneys, architects, and doctors
• Profit centre

[edit] Transport and places

• ISO 3166 country code for the former Pacific Islands Trust Territory
• Pitcairn Islands: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
• the Penn Central railroad in the United States
• Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
• "Patrol, Coastal", a US Navy hull classification symbol

[edit] People

• Paul Chambers (1935–1969), jazz bassist known as "Mr. PC"
• P. Chidambaram (born 1945), finance minister of India
• Patrick Carpenter, one of the collaborators in the Ninja Tune recording outfit DJ Food
• Phil Collins (born 1951), English musician
• Pierre Cardin (born 1922), fashion designer

[edit] Product identification

• PC, a specific type of Mazda C engine
• President's Choice, a private label brand of Loblaw Companies Limited
• Production code number, a designation used to identify television episodes

[edit] Organizations

[edit] Political parties

• Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist political party
• various Canadian parties of the central right, such as
  • 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 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
• Many Communist parties in languages with a different word order (see List of Communist parties), including
  • Partido Comunista, a major left-wing political party in Portugal
  • Partido Comunista de Chile, a Chilean political party

[edit] Educational 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
• Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
• Physique-Chimie, short for ESPCI, an engineering school in France

[edit] Other

• Presbyterian Church (USA), a Christian denomination
• Protes'tant Conference, a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers
• Program committee, members in the organization of an academic conference which are responsible for the peer-review of submitted papers

[edit] Art and entertainment

• 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, usually in role-playing games or computer games
• Pocket ₵hange, a pricing game from The Price Is Right

[edit] Other initialisms

• Postcard or postal card, a thick, typically rectangular piece of paper intended for mailing
• Preclear (Scientology), a person who has not overcome the "reactive mind"
• Public convenience, a euphemism for a toilet
• Program counter, a special register inside CPUs indicating where the computer is in its instruction sequence
• Proto-Celtic language, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
• "Partly cloudy", a weather forecast designation mostly used in North American English newspapers
• Pro-choice, a description used by people who believe that women should have the legal right to have an abortion and the legal right to be protected from coerced or forced abortion
• Probable cause
• Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization