PCM (disambiguation)

PCM or pulse-code modulation is a digital representation of an analog signal.

PCM may also refer to:

Computing

 * Performance Counter Monitor, Intel's technology for monitoring performance levels of CPUs
 * Personal Computer Magazine, a Dutch computer magazine
 * Phase-change memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory
 * Plug-compatible machine (or plug-compatible manufacturer), a computer system (or its manufacturer) designed to be operationally compatible with a computer made by a different manufacturer
 * Process control monitoring, in computing, a procedure follower to obtain detailed information about the process use

Science and technology

 * Perchloromethyl mercaptan, a synthetic intermediate
 * Phase-change material, a chemical substance with a high heat of fusion
 * Phase conjugate mirror, a type of mirror, that conjugates the phase of the light while reflecting it
 * Photochemical machining, a process for machining thin materials with chemicals and UV light
 * Phylogenetic comparative methods, a method for historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses in biology
 * Polarizable continuum model, used to model solvent in physical chemistry computation
 * Powertrain control module, an on-board vehicle computer designed to minimize its emissions and increase fuel economy
 * Principal chiral model, a quantum field theory which is integrable in two dimensions
 * Protection circuit module, used in battery packs

Organizations

 * Paralympic Council of Malaysia, the National Paralympic Committee of Malaysia
 * Partido Comunista Mexicano (Mexican Communist Party), a former communist political party in Mexico
 * Partidul Civic Maghiar (Hungarian Civic Party), an ethnic Hungarian political party in Romania
 * Pacific Cyber/Metrix, a defunct American computer company
 * PCM, Inc., a U.S. computer retailing company
 * PCM Uitgevers, a Dutch publishing company
 * Private Capital Management, a Florida-based wealth-management firm co-founded by Bruce Sherman

Other

 * pcm, the ISO language code for Nigerian pidgin
 * Per calendar month, an abbreviation used in legal agreements
 * Per cent mille (pcm), one one-thousandth of a percent
 * Pomona College Magazine, alumni magazine of Pomona College
 * Pro Cycling Manager, a cycling game by Cyanide Studios
 * Project cycle management, the process of planning and managing projects, programmes and organisations
 * Process Communication Model, a non-clinical personality assessment, communication and management methodology in the work of Taibi Kahler
 * Psychological continuum model, a framework to classify sport and event consumers, in order of their psychological connection towards the object
 * Paracoccidioidomycosis, an acute to chronic fungal infection
 * r/PoliticalCompassMemes, a subreddit dedicated towards memes relating to the Political Compass test