PC
WordNet

noun


(1)   A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
WiktionaryText


PC

  1. Coastal Patrol
  2. partially continuous
  3. Penn Central
  4. personal computer
  5. photocopy
  6. Phrozen Crew
  7. Plaid Cymru
  8. player character
  9. police constable
  10. politically correct
  11. political correctness
  12. polycarbonate
  13. posterior commissure
  14. Presbyterian Church
  15. Privy Council
  16. privy councillor
  17. probable cause
  18. Probate Court
  19. pro-choice
  20. (TV) production code
  21. Professional Corporation
  22. Progressive Canadian Party
  23. Progressive Conservative
  24. Progressive Conservative Party
  25. progressive contextualization
  26. Proto-Celtic
  27. pubococcygeus muscle
  28. program counter

Quotations

  • 2005: 'I talked them out of that, and now one of their PCs is letting me borrow their PC. Very PC of him, I thought,' the Doctor explained. — The Gallifrey Chronicles, Lance Parkin, p79; the three uses in this quotation mean police constable, personal computer, and politically correct, respectively.

See also

supt., DCI, DI, DS, DC Mac , desktop computer , home computer , personal workstation , microcomputer CPC , RCAP/CA , LPC , NDP , CCF , BQ
 
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