PRC often refers to the People's Republic of China.

PRC, prc, or P.R.C. may also refer to:

Organizations

Political

  • Communist Refoundation Party, (Partito della Rifondazione Comunista), Italy
  • Regionalist Party of Cantabria
  • Popular Resistance Committees, Palestinian militant organizations
  • People's Redemption Council, Liberian early 1980s military regime
  • Pasadena Republican Club
  • People's Republic of the Congo, former country in Africa (until 1992)
  • Republic of the Congo, successor of the People's Republic of the Congo, ongoing UNDP code

Other organizations

  • Pew Research Center
  • Philippine Red Cross
  • Philippine Racing Club, a horse racing institution
  • Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent regulatory agency in the US
  • Presbyterian Reformed Church (Australia)
  • Producers Releasing Corporation, Hollywood film studio 1939–1947
  • Professional Regulation Commission, Philippines
  • Protestant Reformed Churches in America
  • Philippine Refining Company, the former name of Unilever Philippines (1927–1993)

Science and technology

Biology

  • Phase response curve, graph of biological responses to light or other time cues
  • Photosynthetic reaction centre, the molecular unit responsible for absorbing light in photosynthesis
  • Progesterone receptor C, one of the isoforms of the progesterone receptor

Computing and telecommunication

  • PRC (Palm OS)pac0710-androidOS/1, computer code database file format, also used in e-books as Mobipocket MOBI and Kindle AZW
  • PRC (file format), a way to store 3D data in a PDF file
  • Primary reference clock, for synchronization in telecommunications

LCD

  • Panel Response Correction (PRC)

Other uses in science and technology

  • Passive radiative cooling, a solar radiation management strategy to reverse global warming.
  • Practical reserve capacity, for traffic at a traffic signal junction
  • Prestressed reinforced concrete, a prestressed concrete<!--(in Japan)-->
  • Precast reinforced concrete

Other uses

  • Ernest A. Love Field (IATA airport code), an airport near Prescott, Arizona, US
  • Premier's Reading Challenge, a reading challenge for school students in parts of Australia
  • Pregnancy Resource Center, a nonprofit organization offering pregnant women resources and counseling for alternatives to abortion
  • Premier Coach, parent of Vermont Translines, American bus company
  • "PRC" (song), by Peso Pluma and Natanael Cano, 2023

See also

  • Peach PRC, an Australian singer, songwriter, and internet personality
  • Polycomb repressive complex 2 or PRC2, a protein
  • AN/PRC, for "Army/Navy, Portable, Radio, Communication", e.g. AN/PRC-77 Portable Transceiver