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
  • Queen's Privy Council for Canada
  • Privy Council of the United Kingdom
• 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 such as attorneys, architects, doctors, and engineers
• 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

• Pierre Cardin (born 1922), fashion designer
• Pat Carroll (disambiguation)
• Peter Cetera (born 1944), musician
• Paul Chambers (1935–1969), jazz bassist known as "Mr. PC"
• P. Chidambaram (born 1945), home minister of India
• Phil Collins (born 1951), English musician
• Pat Condell (born 1949), atheist comedian
• Pete Carroll (born 1951), NFL head coach for the Seattle Seahawks
• Priyanka Chopra (born 1982), Indian actress and former Miss World 2000

Products

• PC, a specific type of Mazda C engine
• Tandy Pocket Computer
• President's Choice, a private label product brand
• Production code number, a designation used to identify television episodes

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:
  • List of Communist parties
  • Partido Comunista (disambiguation)
• 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:
  • Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party
  • Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Alberta
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario

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

• Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts, a hotel chain in Pakistan
• Piscola, a cocktail popular in Chile
• Population Connection, a charity organization
• Presbyterian Church (USA), a Christian denomination
• Program committee of an academic conference, those responsible for the peer review of submitted papers
• Protes'tant Conference, a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers

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

• Peach Circuit, a racing course in the Mario Kart video game series
• Pokémon Colosseum, a video game for the Nintendo Gamecube
• Pokémon Crystal

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

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