PC explained
PC may stand for:
- Pachyonychia congenita, a genetic skin disorder
- Parsec, an astronomical measure of distance often shortened to pc
- Path connected, a concept in mathematical topology where two points are linked with a path
- Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
- Personal computer, a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals
- Phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid
- Photonic crystal, a photonic band gap material
- Polycarbonate, a plastic polymer
- Political correctness, language that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
- Police Constable (also "PC"), in the UK and Canada
- Posterior commissure, brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
- Presbyterian Church (USA), a Christian denomination
- 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
- Pro-choice, a self-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
- Professional corporation, a special corporate form for licensed professionals, such as attorneys, architects, and doctors
- Profit centre
- Program counter, a special register inside CPUs indicating where the computer is in its instruction sequence
- Progressive contextualization, a scientific method
- Protes'tant Conference, a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers
- Proto-Celtic language, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
- Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization
- Pubococcygeus muscle
Codification
People
Product identification
- PC, a specific type of Mazda C engine
- President's Choice, a private label brand of Loblaw Companies Limited
Organizations
In political parties:
Other 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 egineering school in France
Other initialisms
- 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
- post cibum (Latin for "after meals"), a medical prescription shorthand
- Postcard or postal card, a thick, typically rectangular piece of paper intended for mailing
- Post count, a measure of how many posts a member has made on an Internet forum
- Preclear (Scientology), a person who has not overcome the "reactive mind"
- 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, frequently the corporate arrangement of law firms, architectural firms, and similar entities in the United States
- Public convenience, another name for a toilet
- Pocket ¢hange, a pricing game from The Price Is Right
- Picture Comment, a common initialism on the website MySpace
- The Petz Community for fans of the Petz computer games
