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. (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
  • 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 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

  • IBM PC compatible, a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
  • 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
  • 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 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)