PC most commonly refers to the personal computer, a general-purpose computer for individuals.
PC or pc may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Pitch class, a set of octave-equivalent pitches in music 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. S.p.A. (stock symbol PC), an Italian multinational tyre manufacturer 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 PC Express, a grocery click and collect service President's Choice Financial, a Canadian financial services provider
Government bodies Peace Corps, a volunteer program run by the US government Philippine Constabulary, a defunct police force Libyan Presidential Council Privy council, a body that advises the head of state of a nation, or the postnominal used by its members 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
American schools Phoenix College, a community college in Arizona Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California Port Charlotte High School, in Florida Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina Providence College, in Rhode Island Putnam City Schools, school district in Oklahoma
Schools elsewhere ESPCI (also referred to as Physique-Chimie), an engineering school in France Pembroke College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, in England Pickering College, an independent, co-educational K-12 school in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Port Credit Secondary School, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Prempeh College, in Ashanti Region, Ghana
Law 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 President's Counsel, a lawyer's rank in Sri Lanka
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 IBM PC compatible, a ubiquitous personal computer architecture Portable computer, a type of Personal computer, see article Programmable controller (disambiguation) Pica (unit) (pc), a typographic unit of measure Program counter, a special register inside CPUs "PC", a colloquial term for Wintel computers or any computer running Microsoft Windows
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 Pc (space group), three-dimensional space group number 7
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 US 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 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)