PC

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), numeric ratio signifier
 * 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.)

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 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)
 * 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 Chris, former professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player, named after Port Chester, New York
 * Priyanka Chopra, an Indian actress, model and singer

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, Canada
 * 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 PC

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
 * 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

Anatomical structures

 * Posterior commissure, a brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
 * Pubococcygeus 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)

Other uses

 * 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