PC - Definition and Overview

PC may stand for:

• Personal computer, IBM PC, or PC compatible (the latter is the computer-component of the computing platform that makes up the majority of today's desktop and laptop computers).
• Political correctness
• Coastal Patrol, according to its US Navy hull classification symbol
• Parsec, written pc
• Percent or per cent, written p.c.
• Petacoulomb (PC), an SI unit for electric charge equal to 10^{15</sub> coulomb}
• Piano concerto
• Presbyterian College, in Clinton, South Carolina
• Plaid Cymru (Welsh nationalist political party)
• Player character, in role-playing games and interactive fiction, a fictional character controlled by a human player
• Police Constable (in the UK and Canada)
• Polycarbonate
• Postcard or Postal card
• President's Choice, a private label brand of Loblaw Companies Limited
• Privy Council
• Process Control
• Program counter, a special type of register in a computer
• Progressive Conservative, a defunct Canadian political party
• Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party
• Production code, a designation used to identify television episodes
• Prontor/Compur, a jack or plug for connecting a flash to a camera
• P Chidambaram, finance minister of India
• Picture Cover - a method of book binding in which the cover of the book has a picture relating to the contents. This is differentiated from Hardcover (no picture, unless on the dustcover) and Paperback (with a picture, but a cheaper method).
• Penn Central - a railroad in the United States.
• PC, a Mazda piston engine