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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
Pretty Cure, a Japanese anime franchise
Business and finance
Percentage (pc), numeric ratio signifier
Prime cost or variable cost
Principal Consultant, a management consulting position
Professional corporation, a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc.)
Organizations
= Businesses
=Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts, a hotel chain in Pakistan
Pirelli & C. (stock symbol: PC)
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
= Government bodies
=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
King's Privy Council for Canada
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Putnam City Schools, school district in Oklahoma
= Political parties
=Colorado Party (disambiguation)
Partido Comunista (disambiguation)
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 Manitoba (1882- )
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)
= Religious denominations
=Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
= 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
Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
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
Prempeh College, in Ashanti Region, Ghana
Law enforcement
Police Constable, a police rank
Protective custody, a type of imprisonment or care to protect a person from harm
Probable cause, reasonable grounds (for making a search, pressing a charge, etc.)
Police commissioner, the chief manager of a police entity
Penal code, the legal code in some jurisdictions that define crimes
People
PC (footballer) (born 1994), from Brazil
PC Chris, former professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player, named after Port Chester, New York
Priscilla Chan (singer) (born 1965), Hong Kong Cantopop singer
Priyanka Chopra, an Indian actress, model and singer
Places
= United States
=Park City, Utah
Panama City, Florida
Panorama City, Los Angeles, a district in the San Fernando Valley
Port Charlotte, Florida
Port Chester, New York
= 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)
Port Credit, a neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Serbia or the Republika Srpska, both of which can be abbreviated in Cyrillic to РС (RS)
Science, technology, and mathematics
= 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 ubiquitous personal computer architecture
an IBM PC specifically running Microsoft Windows
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
Polynomial chaos, a concept in stochastic mathematics
Principal component
= Medicine and psychology
=Anatomical structures
Posterior commissure, a brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
Pubococcygeus muscle
Parietal cell
Diseases
Pachyonychia congenita, a genetic skin disorder
Pancreatic cancer
Prostate cancer
Other uses in medicine and psychology
Palliative care, specialised care for people with serious illnesses
Perceived control, a psychological concept
Post cibum (Latin for "after food"), in medical prescriptions
Primary care
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
Perspective Control, photographic lens arrangement for reducing keystone distortion
Transport
Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
Penn Central, a railroad in the United States
Two US Navy hull classification symbols: Patrol craft (PC) and Patrol craft coastal (PC)
Pegasus Airlines (IATA code: PC)
Other uses
Pickleball Canada, Canada's governing body for the sport of pickleball
Political correctness, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
President's Counsel, a lawyer's rank in Sri Lanka
Pro-choice, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy
Proto-Celtic, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
See also
Piece (disambiguation)
P.C. Hooftstraat, a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tandy Pocket Computer
PCS (disambiguation)