PC

PC most commonly refers to:

Personal computer, a general-purpose computing device for use by an individual
IBM PC compatible, a personal computer that is hardware- and software-compatible with the IBM Personal Computer
Political correctness, language or behavior that avoids being offensive
Player character or playable character, a fictional person controlled by and representing a participant in a game
Police Constable, a rank of law enforcement officer

PC or pc may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Pitch class, a set of octave-equivalent pitches in music
Player character or playable character, a fictional person controlled by and representing a participant in a game
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)
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. S.p.A. (stock symbol PC), an Italian multinational tyre manufacturer
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
- PC Express, a grocery click and collect service
- President's Choice Financial, a Canadian financial services provider

Government bodies

Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the US government
Philippine Constabulary, a defunct police force
Libyan Presidential Council
Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation, or the postnominal used by its members
- 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)
- Protestant Coalition, Ulster loyalist political party in Northern Ireland (2013-2015)
- Yukon Progressive Conservative Party (1978–1991)

Religious denominations

Schools

American schools

Phoenix College, a community college in Arizona
Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
Port Charlotte High School, in Florida
Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina
Providence College, in Rhode Island
Putnam City Schools, school district in Oklahoma

Schools elsewhere

ESPCI (also referred to as Physique-Chimie), an engineering school in France
Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, in England
Pickering College, an independent, co-educational K-12 school in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Port Credit Secondary School, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Prempeh College, in Ashanti Region, Ghana

Law

Police Constable, a rank of law enforcement officer
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
President's Counsel, a lawyer's rank in Sri Lanka

People

PC (footballer) (born 1994), from Brazil
PC Siqueira (1986–2023), Brazilian YouTuber, presenter and comic book colourist
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

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 computing device for use by an individual
- Specifically, the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC), released in 1981, or a related meaning:
  - List of IBM Personal Computer models
  - IBM PC compatible
  - "PC", a computer running the Wintel hardware–software stack
  - "PC", a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system
- Portable computer
Programmable controller (disambiguation)
Pica (unit) (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, or pelvic floor 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
Pc (space group), three-dimensional space group number 7

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 US
Two US Navy hull classification symbols: Patrol craft (PC) and Patrol craft coastal (PC)
Pegasus Airlines (IATA code: PC)
Pachora Junction railway station (station code: PC), Maharashtra, India

Other uses

Pickleball Canada, Canada's governing body for the sport of pickleball
Political correctness, language or behavior that avoids being offensive
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

PC

Arts and entertainment

Business and finance

Organizations

Businesses

Government bodies

Political parties

Religious denominations

Schools

American schools

Schools elsewhere

Law

People

Places

United States

Other places

Science, technology, and mathematics

Chemistry

Computing

Mathematics

Medicine and psychology

Anatomical structures

Diseases

Other uses in medicine and psychology

Physics and cosmology

Other uses in science and technology

Transport

Other uses

See also