PDC
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PDC may refer to:
In science:
- Phi Delta Chi, an association formed to advance the science of pharmacy and allied interests
- Pulsed DC, the form of wave produced from a half-wave rectifier or a full-wave rectifier
- Pyroclastic density current, a common and devastating result of some volcanic eruptions
- Pyruvate decarboxylase, a homotetrameric enzyme that catalyses the decarboxylation of pyruvic acid to acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, a complex of three enzymes that transform pyruvate into acetyl-CoA
- Pyridinium dichromate, a chromium-based oxidant used in organic chemistry
In technology:
- Parking Distance Control, is a system used in (BMW) Cars to measure the distance between the car and obstacles
- Personal Digital Cellular, a 2G mobile phone standard developed and used exclusively in Japan
- Pocket Dream Console, a small handheld game device created by Tomy and Conny in 2006
- Practical Devices Corporation, manufacturer of high-end headphone amplifiers
- Primary Domain Controller, a server computer in a pre-Windows 2000 NT server Domain
- Professional Developers Conference, a conference for software developers
- Programme Delivery Control, a standard to control video recorders using hidden codes in the teletext service
In linguistics:
- PDC (language), a West Central German variety spoken by 150,000 to 250,000 people in North America
- The reconstructed Dené-Caucasian proto-language, the tentative sister of the Nostratic proto-language, and common ancestor of the Basque, North Caucasian, Burushaski, Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian and Na-Dené languages
- Plugin Delay Compensation, a technique for keeping the output of digital audio effects synchronized when each may introduce delay into the signal
In other fields:
- Pacific Disaster Center, an international organization
- Parti Démocrate-Chrétien Suisse, a political party in Switzerland
- Partisan Defense Committee, a legal defence organization
- Pittsburgh Dance Council, a presenting organization based in downtown Pittsburgh
- Professional Darts Corporation, a professional darts organisation
- Prosper.com, a personal finance lending network
- Practice Depth Charge, a small explosive device
- Portland Development Commission, Portland, Oregon government agency