PC
Encyclopedia
PC most commonly refers to:
PC may also stand for:
- Personal computerPersonal computerA personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
, a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals - Political correctnessPolitical correctnessPolitical correctness is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts,...
, language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
PC may also stand for:
Science and medicine
- Pachyonychia congenitaPachyonychia congenitaPachyonychia congenita, also called Jadassohn-Lewandowski Syndrome or simply pachyonychia, is an autosomal dominant skin disorder.-Symptoms:Common symptoms include:*Excess keratin in nail beds and thickening of the nails...
, a genetic skin disorder - Path connected, a concept in mathematical topology where two points are linked with a path
- PhosphatidylcholinePhosphatidylcholinePhosphatidylcholines are a class of phospholipids that incorporate choline as a headgroup.They are a major component of biological membranes and can be easily obtained from a variety of readily available sources such as egg yolk or soy beans from which they are mechanically extracted or chemically...
, a phospholipid - Photonic crystalPhotonic crystalPhotonic crystals are periodic optical nanostructures that are designed to affect the motion of photons in a similar way that periodicity of a semiconductor crystal affects the motion of electrons...
, a photonic band gap material - PolycarbonatePolycarbonatePolycarbonatePhysical PropertiesDensity 1.20–1.22 g/cm3Abbe number 34.0Refractive index 1.584–1.586FlammabilityV0-V2Limiting oxygen index25–27%Water absorption – Equilibrium0.16–0.35%Water absorption – over 24 hours0.1%...
, a plastic polymer - Post cibum (Latin for "after meals"), a medical prescriptionMedical prescriptionA prescription is a health-care program implemented by a physician or other medical practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient. Prescriptions may include orders to be performed by a patient, caretaker, nurse, pharmacist or other therapist....
shorthand - Posterior commissurePosterior commissureThe posterior commissure is a rounded band of white fibers crossing the middle line on the dorsal aspect of the upper end of the cerebral aqueduct. It is important in the bilateral pupillary light reflex....
, brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing - Primary carePrimary carePrimary care is the term for the health services by providers who act as the principal point of consultation for patients within a health care system...
- Progressive contextualizationProgressive ContextualizationProgressive contextualization is a scientific method pioneered and developed by professor Andrew P. Vayda and research team between 1979 and 1984. The method was developed to help understand cause of damage and destruction of forest and land during the New Order Regime in Indonesia, as well as...
, a scientific method - Propylene carbonatePropylene carbonatePropylene carbonate is an organic compound, a cyclic carbonate of propylene glycol. This colorless and odorless liquid is useful as a polar, aprotic solvent...
, a polar organic solvent - Pubococcygeus musclePubococcygeus muscleThe pubococcygeus muscle or PC muscle is a hammock-like muscle, found in both sexes, that stretches from the pubic bone to the coccyx forming the floor of the pelvic cavity and supporting the pelvic organs. It is part of the levator ani group of muscles.-Function:The Pubococcygeus muscle controls...
- Pyruvate carboxylasePyruvate carboxylasePyruvate carboxylase is an enzyme of the ligase class that catalyzes the irreversible carboxylation of pyruvate to form oxaloacetate .It is an important anaplerotic reaction that creates oxaloacetate from pyruvate...
, an enzyme in the TCA cycle
Law, politics, and business
- Philippine ConstabularyPhilippine ConstabularyThe Philippine Constabulary ' was the oldest of four service commands of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. It was a gendarmerie type para-military police force of the Philippines established in 1901 by the United States-appointed administrative authority replacing the Guardia Civil...
, a defunct police force of the Philippines - Plaid CymruPlaid Cymru' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...
, political party - Police Constable, a police rank used in Britain and some Commonwealth countries
- President's Counsel (Sri Lanka)President's Counsel (Sri Lanka)President's Counsel is a professional rank, as their status is conferred by the president, recognised by the courts and wear silk gowns of a special design...
, a legal position in Sri Lanka - Prime cost or variable cost
- Principal Consultant, a management consultingManagement consultingManagement consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....
position - Privy councilPrivy councilA privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the monarch's closest advisors to give confidential advice on...
, a body that advises the head of state of a nation- Queen's Privy Council for CanadaQueen's Privy Council for CanadaThe Queen's Privy Council for Canada ), sometimes called Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council, is the full group of personal consultants to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs, though responsible government requires the sovereign or her viceroy,...
- Privy Council of the United KingdomPrivy Council of the United KingdomHer Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign in the United Kingdom...
- Queen's Privy Council for Canada
- Probable causeProbable causeIn United States criminal law, probable cause is the standard by which an officer or agent of the law has the grounds to make an arrest, to conduct a personal or property search, or to obtain a warrant for arrest, etc. when criminal charges are being considered. It is also used to refer to the...
- Process controlProcess controlProcess control is a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms and algorithms for maintaining the output of a specific process within a desired range...
, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms, and algorithms - Professional corporationProfessional corporationProfessional corporations are those corporate entities for which many corporation statutes make special provision, regulating the use of the corporate form by licensed professionals such as attorneys, architects, engineers, public accountants and physicians...
, a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc) - Profit centre
Transport and places
- P.C. HooftstraatP.C. HooftstraatThe P.C. Hooftstraat is a shopping street in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1876 it was named after Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft , a Dutch historian, poet and playwright. The street is located in the stadsdeel Amsterdam Oud-Zuid and runs from the Stadhouderskade to the Vondelpark...
, a well-known street in Amsterdam, Netherlands - Pacific CentrePacific CentrePacific Centre is a shopping mall located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is operated by Cadillac Fairview Corporation. Based on the number of stores, many of which are underground, it is the largest mall in Downtown Vancouver with over 100 stores and services...
, shopping mall in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Pacific CoastPacific CoastA country's Pacific coast is the part of its coast bordering the Pacific Ocean.-The Americas:Countries on the western side of the Americas have a Pacific coast as their western border.* Geography of Canada* Geography of Chile* Geography of Colombia...
- ISO 3166 country code for the former Pacific Islands Trust Territory
- Panama CityPanama CityPanama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
, the capital of Panama - Panama City, FloridaPanama City, Florida-Personal income:The median income for a household in the city was $31,572, and the median income for a family was $40,890. Males had a median income of $30,401 versus $21,431 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,830...
- Park City, UtahPark City, UtahPark City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census...
- Patrol, Coastal, a US Navy hull classification symbolHull classification symbolThe United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use hull classification symbols to identify their ship types and each individual ship within each type...
- Patrol craft, a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
- The Penn Central railroad in the United States
- Pitcairn IslandsPitcairn IslandsThe Pitcairn Islands , officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, form a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Pacific...
: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code - Port Charlotte, FloridaPort Charlotte, FloridaPort Charlotte is a census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida, United States. The population was 46,451 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Punta Gorda Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
People
- Pierre CardinPierre CardinPierre Cardin Cardin was known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical...
(born 1922), fashion designer - Pat Carroll (disambiguation)
- Peter CeteraPeter CeteraPeter Paul Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, bassist and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career...
(born 1944), musician - Paul ChambersPaul ChambersPaul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was a jazz bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, intonation, and virtuosic...
(1935–1969), jazz bassist known as "Mr. PC" - P. ChidambaramP. ChidambaramP. Chidambaram or Chidambaram Palaniappan, sometimes written Palaniappan Chidambaram is an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress and present Union Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of India. Previously he was the Finance Minister of India from May 2004 to November 2008...
(born 1945), home minister of India - Phil CollinsPhil CollinsPhilip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
(born 1951), English musician - Pat CondellPat CondellPatrick Condell is an Irish-English writer, political commentator, comedian, UKIP patron and atheist internet personality. He performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom, and won a Time Out Comedy Award in 1991...
(born 1949), atheist comedian - Pete CarrollPete CarrollPeter Clay Carroll is the head coach and executive Vice-President of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He is a former head coach of the New York Jets, New England Patriots and the University of Southern California Trojans football team.-Early life:Carroll attended Redwood High...
(born 1951), NFL head coach for the Seattle Seahawks - Priyanka ChopraPriyanka ChopraPriyanka Chopra is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 2000. She is often referred to by the nickname "Piggy Chops", which was given to her by co-stars on the set of the film...
(born 1982), Indian actress and former Miss World 2000
Products
- PC, a specific type of Mazda C engine
- Tandy Pocket ComputerTandy Pocket ComputerA Tandy Pocket Computer is one of a line of 1980s small pocket computers—calculator-sized programmable computing devices—sold primarily under the Tandy or Radio Shack brands, but were actually rebadged Sharp and Casio devices with different model names. They were given designations from...
- President's ChoicePresident's ChoicePresident's Choice also known as “PC,” is a private label or store brand owned by Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada’s largest food retailer. As the company’s premium line, President’s Choice includes a wide variety of grocery and household products, in addition to financial services and mobile...
, a private label product brand - Production code numberProduction code numberA production code number, also known as the production code or episode code is an alphanumeric designation used to uniquely identify episodes within a television series...
, a designation used to identify television episodes
Organizations
- Peace CorpsPeace CorpsThe Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
, 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 CymruPlaid Cymru' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...
, a Welsh nationalist political party - Porozumienie CentrumPorozumienie CentrumPorozumienie Centrum was a Polish centrist Christian Democratic political party. The party rose in 1990 after breaking with Solidarność. Its chairman was Jarosław Kaczyński. In its programme, the PC opposed socialism and was anti-communist...
, now-defunct Polish right-wing political party - Various Canadian parties of the central right, such as:
- Progressive Canadian PartyProgressive Canadian PartyThe Progressive Canadian Party is a minor federal political party in Canada. It is a centre/centre-right party that was officially registered with Elections Canada, the government's election agency, on March 29, 2004....
, Canada's new progressive conservative party - Progressive Conservative Association of AlbertaProgressive Conservative Association of AlbertaThe Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...
, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Alberta - Progressive Conservative Party of CanadaProgressive Conservative Party of CanadaThe Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
, a now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party - Progressive Conservative Party of OntarioProgressive Conservative Party of OntarioThe Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...
, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario
- Progressive Canadian Party
Educational institutions
- Pembroke College, OxfordPembroke College, OxfordPembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. As of 2009, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £44.9 million.-History:...
, a constituent college of the University of Oxford - Phoenix CollegePhoenix CollegePhoenix College is a community college located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Founded in 1920, it is one of the oldest community colleges in the country....
, a community college in Phoenix, Arizona - Physique-Chimie, short for ESPCI, an engineering school in France
- Port Charlotte High SchoolPort Charlotte High SchoolPort Charlotte High School is a four-year, comprehensive, public high school located in Port Charlotte, Florida, US. The school opened in 1982, its mascot is the pirate, and the school motto is "Yes, I am a Pirate." It is operated by Charlotte County Public Schools...
in Port Charlotte, Florida - Port Credit Secondary SchoolPort Credit Secondary SchoolPort Credit Secondary School is a high school located in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, and is a part of the Peel District School Board. It was the first secondary school in Peel; it celebrated its 90th anniversary in May 2010. It is located just north of Port Credit, Ontario...
in Mississauga, Ontario - Presbyterian CollegePresbyterian CollegePresbyterian College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, South Carolina, USA. Presbyterian College, or PC, is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA. PC was founded in 1880 by William Plumer Jacobs, a prominent Presbyterian minister who also founded the nearby Thornwell Home and...
, in Clinton, South Carolina - Providence CollegeProvidence CollegeProvidence College is a private, coeducational, Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2010–2011 enrollment of 3,850 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the College specializes in academic...
, a private four-year Catholic college in Providence, Rhode Island
Other
- Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts, a hotel chain in Pakistan
- PiscolaPiscolathumb|250px|Two piscolas with icePiscola or Combinado Nacional is a highball cocktail, made of pisco and most commonly a cola drink, that is popular in Chile. A piscola may be black or white depending if it is mixed with a cola or ginger ale, Tonic, Sprite or a similar soft drink...
, a cocktail popular in Chile - Population ConnectionPopulation ConnectionPopulation Connection is an organization in the United States, formerly known as Zero Population Growth. They adopted their current name in 2002.Zero Population Growth was originally founded in 1968 by Paul R...
, a charity organization - Presbyterian Church (USA)Presbyterian Church (USA)The Presbyterian Church , or PC, is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. Part of the Reformed tradition, it is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S...
, a Christian denomination - Program committee of an academic conferenceAcademic conferenceAn academic conference or symposium is a conference for researchers to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.-Overview:Conferences are usually composed of various...
, those responsible for the peer review of submitted papers - Protes'tant ConferenceProtes'tant ConferenceThe Protes'tant Conference is a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers in the United States. It was organized in 1927 by suspended former members of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod following an intrasynodical controversy...
, a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers
Art and entertainment
- Piano concertoPiano concertoA piano concerto is a concerto written for piano and orchestra.See also harpsichord concerto; some of these works are occasionally played on piano...
, a concerto for solo piano and orchestra - Picture coverPicture cover"Picture cover" is a common term among book collectors. Many early series books and later children's books have this binding, as do most modern textbooks....
, a method of book binding in which the cover of the book has a picture relating to the contents - Player characterPlayer characterA player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...
or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games - Pretty CurePretty Cureis a Japanese magical girl anime metaseries created by Izumi Todo and produced by ABC and Toei Animation. The first program Futari wa Pretty Cure debuted in 2004 and has continued with sequels and spinoffs into the current series Suite PreCure♪ airing in 2011 as part of Asahi Broadcasting...
, a Japanese animated TV series
Video games
- Peach Circuit, a racing course in the Mario KartMario Kartis a series of go-kart-style racing video games developed by Nintendo as a series of spin-offs from its trademark Mario series of platformer adventure-style video games...
video game series - Pokémon ColosseumPokémon Colosseumis a role-playing video game developed by Genius Sonority and published by Nintendo as part of the Pokémon series. It was released exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube on November 21, 2003 in Japan; March 22, 2004 in North America; and May 14, 2004 in Europe...
, a video game for the Nintendo Gamecube - Pokémon Crystal
Other initialisms and symbols
- pc, symbol for the parsecParsecThe parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy. It is about 3.26 light-years, or just under 31 trillion kilometres ....
, 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 classPitch classIn music, a pitch class is a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart, e.g., the pitch class C consists of the Cs in all octaves...
, in music, a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart - Pitch countPitch countIn baseball statistics, pitch count is the number of pitches thrown by a pitcher in a game.Pitch counts are especially a concern for young pitchers, pitchers recovering from injury, or pitchers who have a history of injuries. The pitcher wants to keep the pitch count low because of his stamina...
, the amount of pitches a pitcher throws in baseball, softball, etc. - PostcardPostcardA postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope....
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-choicePro-choiceSupport for the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-choice movement, a sociopolitical movement supporting the ethical view that a woman should have the legal right to elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy....
, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy - Program counterProgram counterThe program counter , commonly called the instruction pointer in Intel x86 microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction address register, or just part of the instruction sequencer in some computers, is a processor register that indicates where the computer is in its instruction sequence...
, a special register inside CPUs indicating where the computer is in its instruction sequence - Prontor-CompurProntor-CompurA Prontor-Compur connection is a standard 3.5 mm electrical connector used in photography to synchronize the shutter to the flash....
, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization - Protective custodyProtective custodyProtective custody is a type of imprisonment to protect a prisoner from harm, either from outside sources or other prisoners. Many administrators believe the level of violence, or the underlying threat of violence within prisoners, is a chief factor causing the need for PC units...
, 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