# PC

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

## Business and finance

* 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
* 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 Chris, former professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player, named after Port Chester, New York
* 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 РС (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 prescriptions
* 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
* 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: Patrol craft (PC) and Patrol craft coastal (PC)
* Pegasus Airlines (IATA code: PC)

## Other uses

* 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