PDC

PDC may refer to:

Chemistry

• Polycrystalline Diamond Compact, a process and component developed for and used in earth formation drill bits to increase their strength and longevity.
• Pyruvate decarboxylase, a homotetrameric enzyme that catalyses the decarboxylation of pyruvic acid to acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide
• Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, a complex of three enzymes that transform pyruvate into acetyl-CoA
• Pyridinium dichromate, a chromium-based oxidant used in organic chemistry

Computing

• Professional Developers Conference, a Microsoft conference for software developers
• Pocket Dream Console, a small handheld game device created by Tomy and Conny in 2006
• Personal Digital Cellular, a 2G mobile phone standard developed and used exclusively in Japan
• Programme Delivery Control, a standard to control video recorders using hidden codes in the teletext service
• Plugin Delay Compensation, a technique for keeping the output of digital audio effects synchronized when each may introduce delay into the signal
• Practical Devices Corporation, manufacturer of high-end headphone amplifiers
• Primary Domain Controller, a server computer in a pre-Windows 2000 NT server Domain
• Peripheral DMA controller, A feature of microcontrollers automating internal feeds for data streams

Education

• California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus

General Science

• Parking Distance Control, is a system used in (BMW) cars to measure the distance between the car and obstacles
• Pulsed DC, the form of wave produced from a half-wave rectifier or a full-wave rectifier
• Pyroclastic density current, a highly energetic ground current of superheated gases containing a high density of suspended pyroclastic fragments resulting from a volcanic explosion

Politics and government

• Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, a political party in Switzerland
• Several parties called Partido Demócrata Cristiano
• Christian Democratic Party (Brazil) (Partido Democrata Cristão)
• Portland Development Commission, Portland, Oregon government agency

Linguistics

• The ISO 639-3 language code for Pennsylvania German, a West Central German variety spoken by 150,000 to 250,000 people in North America

Organizations

• Pacific Disaster Center, an international organization
• Partisan Defense Committee, a legal defense organization
• Phi Delta Chi, an association formed to advance the science of pharmacy and allied interests
• Pittsburgh Dance Council, a presenting organization based in downtown Pittsburgh
• Professional Darts Corporation, a professional darts organization
• Popstars Dance Company, a German dance company

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