# PC

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**PC** most commonly refers to the [personal computer](/source/Personal_computer), a general-purpose computer for individuals.

**PC** or **pc** may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

See also: [People](#People)

- [Pitch class](/source/Pitch_class), a set of octave-equivalent pitches in music
- [Player character](/source/Player_character) or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player, usually in role-playing games or computer games
- *[Port Charles](/source/Port_Charles)*, an American daytime TV soap opera
- [Production code number](/source/Production_code_number), a designation used to identify television episodes
- *[Pretty Cure](/source/Pretty_Cure)*, a Japanese anime franchise

## Business and finance

See also: [Businesses](#Businesses)

- [Percentage](/source/Percentage) (pc)
- [Prime cost](/source/Prime_cost) or variable cost
- Principal Consultant, a [management consulting](/source/Management_consulting) position
- [Professional corporation](/source/Professional_corporation), a type of corporate entity for licensed professionals (attorneys, architects, physicians, engineers, etc.)

## Organizations

### Businesses

- [Pearl-Continental Hotels & Resorts](/source/Pearl-Continental_Hotels_%26_Resorts), a hotel chain in Pakistan
- [Pirelli & C.](/source/Pirelli_%26_C.) (stock symbol: PC)
- [President's Choice](/source/President's_Choice), a private label product brand of the Canadian supermarket chain Loblaw Companies - [PC Mobile](/source/PC_Mobile), a Canadian mobile virtual network operator - [PC Optimum](/source/PC_Optimum), a Canadian rewards program - [PC Express](/source/PC_Express), a grocery [click and collect](/source/Bricks_and_clicks) service - [President's Choice Financial](/source/President's_Choice_Financial), a Canadian financial services provider

### Government bodies

- [Peace Corps](/source/Peace_Corps), a volunteer program run by the United States government
- [Philippine Constabulary](/source/Philippine_Constabulary), a defunct police force
- [Libyan Presidential Council](/source/Presidential_Council_(Libya))
- [Privy council](/source/Privy_council), a body that advises the head of state of a nation - [King's Privy Council for Canada](/source/King's_Privy_Council_for_Canada) - [Privy Council of the United Kingdom](/source/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom)
- [Putnam City Schools](/source/Putnam_City_Schools), school district in Oklahoma

### Political parties

- [Colorado Party (disambiguation)](/source/Colorado_Party_(disambiguation))
- [Partido Comunista (disambiguation)](/source/Partido_Comunista_(disambiguation))
- [Partidul Conservator](/source/Partidul_Conservator), a Romanian conservative party
- [Plaid Cymru](/source/Plaid_Cymru), a Welsh nationalist political party
- [Porozumienie Centrum](/source/Porozumienie_Centrum), a now-defunct Polish right-wing political party
- [Progressive Conservative Party of Canada](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada), a defunct Canadian federal political party - [Progressive Canadian Party](/source/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](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Association_of_Alberta) (1905–2017) - [Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_New_Brunswick) (1867– ) - [Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Manitoba) (1882- ) - [Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador) (1949– ) - [Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Association_of_Nova_Scotia) (1867– ) - [Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario) (1854– ) - [Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Prince_Edward_Island) (1851– ) - [Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Quebec) (1982–1989) - [Protestant Coalition](/source/Protestant_Coalition), Ulster loyalist political party in Northern Ireland (2013-2015) - [Yukon Progressive Conservative Party](/source/Yukon_Progressive_Conservative_Party) (1978–1991)

### Religious denominations

- [Presbyterian Church](/source/Presbyterian_Church)
- [Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)](/source/Presbyterian_Church_(U.S.A.))

### Schools

- [ESPCI](/source/ESPCI), an engineering school in France, also referred to as Physique-Chimie
- [Pembroke College, Oxford](/source/Pembroke_College,_Oxford), a constituent college of the University of Oxford
- [Phoenix College](/source/Phoenix_College), a community college in Arizona, US
- [Pickering College](/source/Pickering_College), an independent, co-educational K-12 school in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
- [Pomona College](/source/Pomona_College), a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
- [Port Charlotte High School](/source/Port_Charlotte_High_School), in Florida, US
- [Port Credit Secondary School](/source/Port_Credit_Secondary_School), in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- [Presbyterian College](/source/Presbyterian_College), in Clinton, South Carolina, US
- [Providence College](/source/Providence_College), in Rhode Island, US
- [Prempeh College](/source/Prempeh_College), in Ashanti Region, Ghana

## Law enforcement

- [Police Constable](/source/Police_Constable), a police rank
- [Protective custody](/source/Protective_custody), a type of imprisonment or care to protect a person from harm
- [Probable cause](/source/Probable_cause), reasonable grounds (for making a search, pressing a charge, etc.)
- [Police commissioner](/source/Police_commissioner), the chief manager of a police entity
- [Penal code](/source/Penal_code), the legal code in some jurisdictions that define crimes

## People

- [PC (footballer)](/source/PC_(footballer)) (born 1994), from Brazil
- [PC Siqueira](/source/PC_Siqueira) (1986–2023), Brazilian YouTuber, presenter and comic book colourist
- [Priscilla Chan (singer)](/source/Priscilla_Chan_(singer)) (born 1965), Hong Kong Cantopop singer
- [Priyanka Chopra](/source/Priyanka_Chopra), an Indian actress, model and singer

## Places

### United States

- [Park City, Utah](/source/Park_City,_Utah)
- [Panama City, Florida](/source/Panama_City,_Florida)
- [Panorama City, Los Angeles](/source/Panorama_City,_Los_Angeles), a district in the San Fernando Valley
- [Port Charlotte, Florida](/source/Port_Charlotte,_Florida)
- [Port Chester, New York](/source/Port_Chester,_New_York)

### Other places

- [Pacific Centre](/source/Pacific_Centre), a shopping mall in Vancouver, British Columbia

- [Pacific Coast](/source/Pacific_Coast)
- [Pacific Islands Trust Territory](/source/Pacific_Islands_Trust_Territory) (ISO 3166 country code)
- [Panama City](/source/Panama_City), the capital of Panama
- [Pitcairn Islands](/source/Pitcairn_Islands) (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code)
- [Port Credit](/source/Port_Credit), a neighbourhood of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- [Serbia](/source/Serbia) or the [Republika Srpska](/source/Republika_Srpska), both of which can be abbreviated in Cyrillic to РС (*RS*)

## Science, technology, and mathematics

### Chemistry

- [Phosphatidylcholine](/source/Phosphatidylcholine), a phospholipid
- [Polycarbonate](/source/Polycarbonate), a plastic polymer
- [Propylene carbonate](/source/Propylene_carbonate), a polar organic solvent
- [Pyruvate carboxylase](/source/Pyruvate_carboxylase), an enzyme

### Computing

- [IBM PC compatible](/source/IBM_PC_compatible), a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
- [Portable computer](/source/Portable_computer), a type of Personal computer, see article
- [Programmable controller (disambiguation)](/source/Programmable_controller_(disambiguation))
- [Pica (typography)](/source/Pica_(typography)) (pc), a typographic unit of measure
- [Program counter](/source/Program_counter), a special register inside CPUs

### Mathematics

- [Path connected](/source/Path_connected), a concept in mathematical topology
- [Precalculus](/source/Precalculus), a level in math education
- [Polynomial chaos](/source/Polynomial_chaos), a concept in stochastic mathematics
- [Principal component](/source/Principal_component)

### Medicine and psychology

#### Anatomical structures

- [Posterior commissure](/source/Posterior_commissure), a brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
- [Pubococcygeus muscle](/source/Pubococcygeus_muscle), or pelvic floor muscle
- [Parietal cell](/source/Parietal_cell)

#### Diseases

- [Pachyonychia congenita](/source/Pachyonychia_congenita), a genetic skin disorder
- [Pancreatic cancer](/source/Pancreatic_cancer)
- [Prostate cancer](/source/Prostate_cancer)

#### Other uses in medicine and psychology

- [Palliative care](/source/Palliative_care), specialised care for people with serious illnesses
- [Perceived control](/source/Perceived_control), a psychological concept
- *Post cibum* (Latin for "after food"), in [medical prescriptions](/source/Medical_prescription)
- [Primary care](/source/Primary_care)
- [Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging](/source/Phase_contrast_magnetic_resonance_imaging)

### Physics and cosmology

- [Parsec](/source/Parsec) (pc), a unit of distance used in astronomy
- [Picocoulomb](/source/Picocoulomb) (pC), a unit of electrostatic charge
- [Petacoulomb](/source/Petacoulomb) (PC), a unit of electrostatic charge
- [Photonic crystal](/source/Photonic_crystal), a photonic band gap material
- [Pc (space group)](/source/Pc_(space_group)), three-dimensional space group number 7

### Other uses in science and technology

- PC, a type of [Mazda C engine](/source/Mazda_C_engine#PC)
- [Prestressed concrete](/source/Prestressed_concrete), a method for overcoming concrete's natural weakness in tension
- [Progressive contextualization](/source/Progressive_contextualization), a scientific method
- [Prontor-Compur](/source/Prontor-Compur), a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization
- [Perspective Control](/source/Perspective_Control), photographic lens arrangement for reducing keystone distortion

## Transport

- [Patrol craft](/source/Patrol_craft), a small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence duties
- [Penn Central](/source/Penn_Central), a railroad in the United States
- Two US Navy hull classification symbols: [Patrol craft (PC)](/source/List_of_patrol_vessels_of_the_United_States_Navy#Patrol_craft_(PC)) and [Patrol craft coastal (PC)](/source/List_of_patrol_vessels_of_the_United_States_Navy#Patrol_craft_coastal_(PC))
- [Pegasus Airlines](/source/Pegasus_Airlines) (IATA code: PC)
- [Pachora Junction railway station](/source/Pachora_Junction_railway_station) (station code: PC), Maharashtra, India

## Other uses

- [Pickleball Canada](/source/Pickleball_in_Canada#Governing_body), Canada's governing body for the sport of pickleball
- [Political correctness](/source/Political_correctness), language or behavior that appears calculated to provide a minimum of offense
- [President's Counsel](/source/President's_Counsel), a lawyer's rank in Sri Lanka
- [Pro-choice](/source/Pro-choice), the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy
- [Proto-Celtic](/source/Proto-Celtic), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages

## See also

- [Piece (disambiguation)](/source/Piece_(disambiguation))
- [P.C. Hooftstraat](/source/P.C._Hooftstraat), a street in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- [Tandy Pocket Computer](/source/Tandy_Pocket_Computer)
- [PCS (disambiguation)](/source/PCS_(disambiguation))

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