PC
PC most commonly refers to:
- Personal computer, a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals
- Political correctness, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
PC may also stand for:
Science and medicine
- Pachyonychia congenita, a genetic skin disorder
- 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
- Post cibum (Latin for "after meals"), a medical prescription shorthand
- Posterior commissure, brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
- Primary care
- Progressive contextualization, a scientific method
- Propylene carbonate, a polar organic solvent
- Pubococcygeus muscle
- Pyruvate carboxylase, an enzyme in the TCA cycle
Law, politics, and business
- Philippine Constabulary, a defunct police force of the Philippines
- Plaid Cymru, political party
- Police Constable, a police rank used in Britain and some Commonwealth countries
- President's Counsel (Sri Lanka), a legal position in Sri Lanka
- Prime cost or variable cost
- Principal Consultant, a management consulting position
- Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation
- Probable cause
- Process control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms, and algorithms
- Professional corporation, a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc)
- Profit centre
Transport and places
- P.C. Hooftstraat, a well-known street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Pacific Centre, shopping mall in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Pacific Coast
- ISO 3166 country code for the former Pacific Islands Trust Territory
- Panama City, the capital of Panama
- Panama City, Florida
- Park City, Utah
- Patrol, Coastal, a US Navy hull classification symbol
- Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
- The Penn Central railroad in the United States
- Pitcairn Islands: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
- Port Charlotte, Florida
People
Products
Organizations
- Peace Corps, a U.S. government run organization that sends volunteers to developing countries.
Political parties
- Various Communist parties, in languages with a different word order:
- Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist political party
- Porozumienie Centrum, now-defunct Polish right-wing political party
- Various Canadian parties of the central right, such as:
Educational institutions
- Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
- Phoenix College, a community college in Phoenix, Arizona
- Physique-Chimie, short for ESPCI, an engineering school in France
- Port Charlotte High School in Port Charlotte, Florida
- Port Credit Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario
- Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina
- Providence College, a private four-year Catholic college in Providence, Rhode Island
Other
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
- Pretty Cure, a Japanese animated TV series
Video games
Other initialisms and symbols
- pc, symbol for the parsec, an astronomical measure of distance
- pc, symbol for the pica, a typographic unit of measure
- pC, symbol for the picocoulomb, a unit of electrostatic charge
- PC, symbol for the petacoulomb, a unit of electrostatic charge
- Partly cloudy, a weather forecast designation mostly used in North American English newspapers
- Pitch class, in music, a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart
- Pitch count, the amount of pitches a pitcher throws in baseball, softball, etc.
- 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"
- Pro-choice, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy
- Program counter, a special register inside CPUs indicating where the computer is in its instruction sequence
- Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization
- Protective custody, a type of imprisonment or care to protect a person from harm
- Proto-Celtic, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
- Public convenience, a toilet