PC

PC or pc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Player character or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games
• Port Charles, an American daytime TV soap opera
• Production code number, a designation used to identify television episodes

Organizations

Government agencies

• Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the United States government
• Philippine Constabulary, a defunct police force
• Libyan Presidential Council
• Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation
  • Queen's Privy Council for Canada
  • Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Political parties

• Partido Comunista (disambiguation) (see also List of Communist parties)
• Partidul Conservator, a Romanian conservative party
• Plaid Cymru, a Welsh nationalist political party
• Porozumienie Centrum, a now-defunct Polish right-wing political party
• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a defunct Canadian federal political party
  • Progressive Canadian Party, a party made up of former members of the Progressive Conservative party
• Several current and former provincial political parties of Canada:
  • Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (1905–2017)
  • Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick (1867– )
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador (1949– )
  • Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia (1867– )
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (1854– )
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island (1851– )
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec (1982–1989)
  • Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (1978–1991)

Schools

• ESPCI, an engineering school in France, also referred to as Physique-Chimie
• Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
• Phoenix College, a community college in Arizona, US
• Pickering College, an independent, co-educational K-12 school in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
• Port Charlotte High School, in Florida, US
• Port Credit Secondary School, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina, US
• Providence College, in Rhode Island, US

Other organizations

• Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts, a hotel chain in Pakistan
• Pirelli & C. (stock symbol PC)
• Presbyterian Church, a Christian denomination
  • Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) or PC(USA), a Christian denomination
• President's Choice, a private label product brand of the Canadian supermarket chain Loblaw Companies
  • PC Mobile, a Canadian mobile virtual network operator
  • PC Optimum, a Canadian rewards program
  • President's Choice Financial, a Canadian financial services provider

Law, economics and business

• Percentage (pc), used in the case of quantities in economics
• Police Constable, a police rank
• President's Counsel, a professional rank
• Prime cost or variable cost
• Professional corporation, a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc.)
• Protective custody, a type of imprisonment or care to protect a person from harm
• Principal Consultant, a management consulting position
• Police commissioner, the chief manager of a police entity

Places

United States

• Park City, Utah
• Panama City, Florida
• Panorama City, Los Angeles, a district in the San Fernando Valley
• Port Charlotte, Florida

Other places

• Pacific Centre, a shopping mall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Pacific Coast
• Pacific Islands Trust Territory (ISO 3166 country code)
• Panama City, the capital of Panama
• Pitcairn Islands (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code)

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology

• PC (cell line), a human prostate cancer cell line

Chemistry

• Phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid
• Polycarbonate, a plastic polymer
• Propylene carbonate, a polar organic solvent
• Pyruvate carboxylase, an enzyme

Computing

• Personal computer, a general-purpose computer for individuals
  • IBM PC compatible, a personal computer similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT
• Programmable controller (disambiguation)
• Pica (typography) (pc), a typographic unit of measure
• Program counter, a special register inside CPUs

Mathematics

• Path connected, a concept in mathematical topology
• Precalculus, a level in math education

Medicine and psychology

• Palliative care, specialised care for people with serious illnesses
• Pachyonychia congenita, a genetic skin disorder
• Pancreatic cancer
• Perceived control, a psychological concept
• Post cibum (Latin for "after food"), in medical prescriptions
• Posterior commissure, a brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
• Primary care
• Pubococcygeus muscle
• Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging

Physics and cosmology

• Parsec (pc), a unit of distance used in astronomy
• Picocoulomb (pC), a unit of electrostatic charge
• Petacoulomb (PC), a unit of electrostatic charge
• Photonic crystal, a photonic band gap material

Other uses in science and technology

• PC, a type of Mazda C engine
• Prestressed concrete, a method for overcoming concrete's natural weakness in tension
• Progressive contextualization, a scientific method
• Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization

Transport

• Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
• Penn Central, a railroad in the United States
• Patrol, Coastal, a US Navy hull classification symbol
• Pegasus Airlines (IATA code: PC)

Other uses

• PC (footballer), Brazilian footballer
• Political correctness, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
• Proto-Celtic, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
• Pro-choice, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy

See also

• P.C. Hooftstraat, a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Tandy Pocket Computer (PC-1 etc.)
• PCS (disambiguation)