PCP

PCP may refer to:

In medicine and pharmaceutics:

• Phencyclidine, a recreational drug known by a number of street names including PCP, angel dust, embalming fluid, and rocket fuel
• Primary care physician, a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients
• Primary care paramedic
• Pneumocystis pneumonia, a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus
• Post-coital pill, a form of emergency contraception

In politics:

• Paraguayan Communist Party
• Partido Comunista del Peru, also known as Shining Path
• Puerto Rican Communist Party
• Peruvian Communist Party
• Portuguese Communist Party
• Proletarian Catalan Party

In science:

• Parallel coordinate plot, a method for visualizing multivariate data
• PCP theorem, a theorem in computational complexity theory
• Pentachlorophenol, timber preservative herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and algaecide
• Post correspondence problem, an important problem in computability theory
• Priority ceiling protocol, a computer science concept
• Probabilistically checkable proof (complexity), a notion in the theory of computational complexity
• Put–call parity, in financial mathematics a relationship between the price of a call option and a put option

In technology:

• Performance Co-Pilot, an open-source performance monitoring system
• Pre-Charged Pneumatic, a type of air gun
• Priority Code Point, a 3-bit priority field within an Ethernet frame header when using IEEE 802.1q tagged frames.

Miscellaneous:

• Faster/P.C.P., a single by Manic Street Preachers, from their 1994 album The Holy Bible
• Purple City Productions, a Harlem-based rap group
• Personal Contract Purchase, a car financing product
• Principia Cybernetica Project, an organization and website devoted to evolutionary-cybernetic philosophy
• PCP, an East Atlanta based punk rock cooperative