# PCP

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**PCP** may refer to:

## Science

### Medicine

- [Pharmacy Council of Pakistan](/source/Pharmacy_Council_of_Pakistan)
- [*Pneumocystis* pneumonia](/source/Pneumocystis_pneumonia), a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus *Pneumocystis jirovecii*
- [Post-coital pill](/source/Post-coital_pill), a form of emergency contraception
- Primary care paramedic, the entry-level of [paramedic practice in Canada](/source/Paramedics_in_Canada#Primary_Care_Paramedics)
- [Primary care physician](/source/Primary_care_physician), a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients

### Chemistry and biochemistry

- [Phencyclidine](/source/Phencyclidine), a hallucinogenic and dissociative recreational drug, also known as angel dust - [3-HO-PCP](/source/3-HO-PCP), a designer drug related to phencyclidine - [3-MeO-PCP](/source/3-MeO-PCP), a designer drug related to phencyclidine - [4-MeO-PCP](/source/4-MeO-PCP), a research chemical related to phencyclidine
- [Pentachlorophenol](/source/Pentachlorophenol), an organochlorine compound used as a timber preservative herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and algaecide
- [Lysosomal Pro-X carboxypeptidase](/source/Lysosomal_Pro-X_carboxypeptidase), an enzyme
- Peptidyl carrier protein, related in structure to [acyl carrier proteins](/source/Acyl_carrier_protein)
- [Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein complex](/source/Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein_complex), a complex of protein and pigment molecules found in dinoflagellates

### Other

- [Parallel coordinates](/source/Parallel_coordinates) plot, a common way of visualizing high-dimensional geometry and analyzing multivariate data
- [Planar cell polarity](/source/Planar_cell_polarity), a mechanism in embryonic development
- [Put–call parity](/source/Put%E2%80%93call_parity), in financial mathematics, a relationship between the price of a call option and a put option

## Computing

- [Probabilistically checkable proof](/source/Probabilistically_checkable_proof), a notion in the theory of computational complexity - [PCP theorem](/source/PCP_theorem), a related theorem
- [Performance Co-Pilot](/source/Performance_Co-Pilot), an open-source performance monitoring system
- [Port Control Protocol](/source/Port_Control_Protocol), a computer networking protocol allowing hosts to create explicit port forwarding rules on default gateways
- [Post correspondence problem](/source/Post_correspondence_problem), an important problem in computability theory
- [Primary Control Program](/source/OS/360_and_successors#PCP), an option in OS/360
- [Principia Cybernetica](/source/Principia_Cybernetica) Project, an organization and website devoted to evolutionary-cybernetic philosophy
- [Priority ceiling protocol](/source/Priority_ceiling_protocol), a computer science concept
- [Priority Code Point](/source/Priority_Code_Point), a three-bit priority field within an Ethernet frame header when using IEEE 802.1q tagged frames

## Politics

### Communist parties

- [Palestine Communist Party](/source/Palestine_Communist_Party)
- [Paraguayan Communist Party](/source/Paraguayan_Communist_Party)
- [Portuguese Communist Party](/source/Portuguese_Communist_Party)
- [Puerto Rican Communist Party](/source/Puerto_Rican_Communist_Party)
- [Partido Comunista del Peru](/source/Partido_Comunista_del_Peru), several different left-oriented organizations in Peru - [Shining Path](/source/Shining_Path) (*Partido Comunista del Perú*) - [Partido Comunista del Perú - Patria Roja](/source/Partido_Comunista_del_Per%C3%BA_-_Patria_Roja) (PCP-BR)
- [Peruvian Communist Party](/source/Peruvian_Communist_Party)

### Other parties

- [Personal Choice Party](/source/Personal_Choice_Party), a former minor party in Utah, United States
- [Progressive Conservative Party](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada) of Canada, 1942-2003
- [Proletarian Catalan Party](/source/Proletarian_Catalan_Party) (1934–1936), in Catalonia, Spain

## Other uses

- *PCP - Perfect Crime Party*, part of the [*Bakuman* franchise](/source/Bakuman#Other_media)
- *[PCP Torpedo](/source/PCP_Torpedo)*, 1998 EP by American grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed
- [Person-centred planning](/source/Person-centred_planning), life-planning model
- [Personal care products](/source/Personal_care_product)
- [Personal contract purchase](/source/Personal_contract_purchase), a vehicle financing product
- [Pre-charged pneumatic](/source/Air_gun#Pre-charged_pneumatic), a type of air gun
- [Purple City Productions](/source/Purple_City_Productions), a US rap group
- [Proto-Central Pacific](/source/Proto-Central_Pacific_language), a proto-language

## See also

- "[Faster/P.C.P.](/source/Faster/P.C.P.)", a single by Manic Street Preachers, from their 1994 album *The Holy Bible*
- PCPA, para-chloro-phenylalanine or [fenclonine](/source/Fenclonine) (PCPA)
- pCPP, [*para*-Chlorophenylpiperazine](/source/Para-Chlorophenylpiperazine)
- [PGP (disambiguation)](/source/PGP_(disambiguation))

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