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'''PC''' or '''pc''' may refer to:
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==Arts and entertainment==
{{seealso|#People}}
* [[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==
{{seealso|#Businesses}}
* [[Percentage]] (pc), numeric ratio signifier
* [[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
** [[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
* [[Presidential Council (Libya)|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&ndash;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, Canada
* [[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 {{lang|sr-Cyrl|РС}} ({{transliteration|sr|RS}})

== Science, technology, and mathematics ==
=== Chemistry ===
* [[Phosphatidylcholine]], a phospholipid
* [[Polycarbonate]], a plastic polymer
* [[Propylene carbonate]], a polar organic solvent
* [[Pyruvate carboxylase]], an enzyme

===Computing===
* [[Personal computer]], a general-purpose computer for individuals
** [[IBM PC compatible]], a ubiquitous personal computer architecture
*** an IBM PC specifically running [[Microsoft Windows]]
* [[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 prescription]]s
* [[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

===Other uses in science and technology===
* PC, a type of [[Mazda C engine#PC|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: [[List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy#Patrol craft (PC)|Patrol craft (PC)]] and [[List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy#Patrol craft coastal (PC)|Patrol craft coastal (PC)]]
* [[Pegasus Airlines]] (IATA code: PC)

==Other uses==
* [[Pickleball in Canada#Governing body|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)]]

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