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'''PC''' most commonly refers to:
* [[Personal computer]], a computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals
* [[Political correctness]], language that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
'''PC''' may also stand for:
==Science and medicine==
* [[Pachyonychia congenita]], a genetic skin disorder
* [[Parsec]], an astronomical measure of distance
* [[Path connected]], a concept in mathematical topology where two points are linked with a path
* [[Phosphatidylcholine]], a phospholipid
* [[Photonic crystal]], a photonic band gap material
* [[Polycarbonate]], a plastic polymer
* [[Posterior commissure]], brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
* [[Progressive contextualization]], a scientific method
* [[Pubococcygeus muscle]]
* ''post cibum'' (Latin for "after meals"), a [[medical prescription]] shorthand
==Law, politics, and business==
* [[Philippine Constabulary]], a defunct police force of the Philippines
* [[Police Constable]], a police rank used in Britain and some Commonwealth countries
* [[President's Counsel (Sri Lanka)]], a legal position in Sri Lanka
* Principal Consultant, a [[management consulting]] position
* [[Privy council]], a body that advises the head of state of a nation
** [[Privy councillor]], a member of a privy council
* [[Prime cost]] or variable cost, items that a client hasn’t specifically selected at the time of the contract but the builder or trades person has made an allowance for in the total price
* [[Process control]], a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms, and algorithms
* [[Professional corporation]], a special corporate form for licensed professionals, such as attorneys, architects, and doctors
* [[Profit centre]]
== Transport and places ==
* ISO 3166 country code for the former [[Pacific Islands Trust Territory]]
* [[Pitcairn Islands]]: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
* The [[Penn Central]] railroad in the United States
* [[Patrol craft]], a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
* Patrol, Coastal, a US Navy [[hull classification symbol]]
* [[Port Charlotte, Florida]]
== People ==
* [[Paul Chambers]] (1935–1969), jazz bassist known as "Mr. PC"
* [[P. Chidambaram]] (born 1945), finance minister of India
* [[Patrick Carpenter]], one of the collaborators in the Ninja Tune recording outfit [[DJ Food]]
* [[Phil Collins]] (born 1951), English musician
* [[Pierre Cardin]] (born 1922), fashion designer
== Product identification ==
* PC, a specific type of [[Mazda C engine#PC|Mazda C engine]]
* [[President's Choice]], a private label brand of Loblaw Companies Limited
* [[Production code number]], a designation used to identify television episodes
== Organizations ==
===Political parties===
* [[Plaid Cymru]], a Welsh nationalist political party
* Various Canadian parties of the central right, such as
** [[Progressive Canadian Party]], Canada's new progressive conservative party
** [[Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta]], a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Alberta
** [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]], a now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party
** [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario]], a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario
* [[Porozumienie Centrum]], now-defunct Polish right-wing political party
* Many Communist parties in languages with a different word order (see [[List of Communist parties]]), including
** [[Partido Comunista]], a major left-wing political party in Portugal
** [[Partido Comunista de Chile]], a Chilean political party
===Educational institutions===
* [[Phoenix College]], a community college in Phoenix, Arizona
* [[Presbyterian College]], in Clinton, South Carolina
* [[Providence College]], a private four-year Catholic college in Providence, Rhode Island
* [[Pembroke College, Oxford]], a constituent college of the University of Oxford
* ''Physique-Chimie'', short for [[ESPCI]], an engineering school in France
* [[Port Charlotte High School]] in [[Port Charlotte, Florida]]
===Other===
* [[Presbyterian Church (USA)]], a Christian denomination
* [[Protes'tant Conference]], a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers
* Program committee, members in the organization of an [[academic conference]] which are responsible for the peer review of submitted papers
==Art and entertainment==
* [[Piano concerto]], a concerto for solo piano and orchestra
* [[Picture cover]], a method of book binding in which the cover of the book has a picture relating to the contents
* [[Player character]] or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games
* [[Pocket ₵hange]], a pricing game from ''The Price Is Right''
==Other initialisms==
* [[Postcard]] or postal card, a thick, typically rectangular piece of paper intended for mailing
* [[Preclear (Scientology)]], a person who has not overcome the "reactive mind"
* [[Public convenience]], a euphemism for a toilet
* [[Program counter]], a special register inside CPUs indicating where the computer is in its instruction sequence
* [[Proto-Celtic language]], the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
* "Partly cloudy", a [[weather forecast]] designation mostly used in North American English newspapers
* [[Pro-choice]], a description used by people who believe that women should have the legal right to have an abortion and the legal right to be protected from coerced or forced abortion
* [[Probable cause]]
* Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic [[flash synchronization]]
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