PC

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PC or pc may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

PC (footballer) (born 1994), from Brazil
PC Chris, former professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player, named after Port Chester, New York
Priyanka Chopra, an Indian actress, model and singer

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 PC

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

Posterior commissure, a brain landmark commonly used in biomedical image processing
Pubococcygeus muscle
Parietal cell

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

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)

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