PC

Template:Sister project PC or pc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Player character or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games
• 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. (stock symbol: PC)
• 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
  • President's Choice Financial, a Canadian financial services provider

Government bodies

• Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the United States government
• Philippine Constabulary, a defunct police force
• Libyan Presidential Council
• Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation
  • 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

• Presbyterian Church
• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Schools

• ESPCI, an engineering school in France, also referred to as Physique-Chimie
• Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford
• Phoenix College, a community college in Arizona, US
• Pickering College, an independent, co-educational K-12 school in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
• Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
• Port Charlotte High School, in Florida, US
• Port Credit Secondary School, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina, US
• Providence College, in Rhode Island, US
• Prempeh College, in Ashanti Region, Ghana

Law enforcement

• Police Constable, a police rank
• 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

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 ()

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 computer for individuals
  • IBM PC compatible, a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
    • an IBM PC specifically running Microsoft Windows
  • Portable computer, a type of Personal computer, see article
• Programmable controller (disambiguation)
• Pica (typography) (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

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 United States
• 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 appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
• President's Counsel, a lawyer's rank in Sri Lanka
• 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

See also

• Piece (disambiguation)
• P.C. Hooftstraat, a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Tandy Pocket Computer
• PCS (disambiguation)

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