PC 23778 225573753 2008-07-14T11:11:31Z Ruffyuppie 3692950 /* Law, politics, and business */ {{TOCright}} '''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]] {{disambig}} [[cs:PC]] [[de:PC]] [[et:PC]] [[es:PC]] [[eo:PC]] [[fr:PC]] [[ko:PC]] [[it:PC]] [[he:PC]] [[hu:PC]] [[nl:PC]] [[ja:PC]] [[no:PC]] [[pl:PC]] [[pt:PC]] [[ksh:PC (Watt ėßß datt?)]] [[ro:PC]] [[ru:PC]] [[sk:PC]] [[sl:PC]] [[fi:PC (täsmennyssivu)]] [[sv:PC]] [[th:PC (แก้ความกำกวม)]] [[vi:PC]] [[tr:PC]] [[zh:PC]]