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PCorpcmay refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Player characteror 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
[edit]- Percentage(pc), numeric ratio signifier
- Prime costor variable cost
- Principal Consultant, amanagement consultingposition
- Professional corporation,a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc.)
Organizations
[edit]Businesses
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
- Putnam City Schools,school district in Oklahoma
Political parties
[edit]- 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 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
[edit]Schools
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- PC (footballer)(born 1994), from Brazil
- PC Chris,former professionalSuper Smash Bros. Meleeplayer, named after Port Chester, New York
- Priyanka Chopra,an Indian actress, model and singer
Places
[edit]United States
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
- Serbiaor theRepublika Srpska,both of which can be abbreviated in Cyrillic to PC
Science, technology, and mathematics
[edit]Chemistry
[edit]- Phosphatidylcholine,a phospholipid
- Polycarbonate,a plastic polymer
- Propylene carbonate,a polar organic solvent
- Pyruvate carboxylase,an enzyme
Computing
[edit]- Personal computer,a general-purpose computer for individuals
- IBM PC compatible,a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
- an IBM PC specifically runningMicrosoft Windows
- IBM PC compatible,a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
- Programmable controller (disambiguation)
- Pica (typography)(pc), a typographic unit of measure
- Program counter,a special register inside CPUs
Mathematics
[edit]- 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
[edit]Anatomical structures
[edit]- Posterior commissure,a brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
- Pubococcygeus muscle
- Parietal cell
Diseases
[edit]- Pachyonychia congenita,a genetic skin disorder
- Pancreatic cancer
- Prostate cancer
Other uses in medicine and psychology
[edit]- Palliative care,specialised care for people with serious illnesses
- Perceived control,a psychological concept
- Post cibum(Latin for "after food" ), inmedical prescriptions
- Primary care
- Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging
Physics and cosmology
[edit]- 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
[edit]- PC, a type ofMazda 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
[edit]- 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)andPatrol craft coastal (PC)
- Pegasus Airlines(IATA code: PC)
Other uses
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Piece (disambiguation)
- P.C. Hooftstraat,a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Tandy Pocket Computer
- PCS (disambiguation)