PC

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PC is an abbreviational suffix that may mean one of the following:

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Most common usages

In everyday speech the two most common North American usages spoken as 'Pee-Cee' are:

  1. PC or Personal computer; its most frequent occurence. See detail in the second section below.
  2. Politically Correct or Political Correctness, its second most frequent cultural occurence in North American Contemporary speech usages. See the first entry the first section following.
  3. Common Technological meanings are in PC#As Technological units (A Subsection below).
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Society & Linguistics

  • Politically Correct or Political correctness (Main Article), a sometimes scornful term used to criticise attempts to impose limits on the acceptability of certain older terms in contemporary language and public debate, which are seen as anti-historic attempts at revisionism and cultural manipulation. e.g. It is more 'PC' to use terminology like "a member of the Commonwealth of Nations" (considered combersome and wordy in comparison...) rather than an older reference to colonial times like Former British Colony— wherein the historic reality of once having been a colony is percieved as being potentially offensive to some, so PC speech practices seek to avoid such hypothetically inflamatory usages.
Similarly, PC critics see such usages as disconnects with long standing terminology — a potential barrier to students, especially across language barriers —like a recent tendancy to use only newer place names in history or geography works without also citing older traditional names common to and embedded in a large corpus of textual references such as Sri Lanka over Ceylon (State name or the Isle) and or Bejing over Peking. These sorts of editorial decisions are seen as unwise denial and submission of western culture to the elevation of a potential percieved slight perhaps at most mildly annoying to the non-western populations.
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In Engineering, Mathematics, Science And Technology

  • PC or Personal computer; its most frequent terminological occurence in colloquial language. Meaning a computer used and owned by a person derivative of the original IBM PC (or "IBM Personal Computer") marketing terminology; this soon mutated into meaning a personal computer was IBM PC compatible, and it is in this meaning the initialism today is most used colloquially in the United States and Canada; usually refering to the majority of today's desktop and laptop computers derivative of the IBM PC;and not always but frequently so as to make a distinction from the other common technology in personal computers— the Apple Computer (MAC) Corp. MacIntosh line of products. Some disdain the distinction, and refer to all personal computers as PC's.
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In Engineering, Computer Science and Technology

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As Technological units

pc may mean:

  • parsec, an astronomical unit of distance (from "parallax-second")
  • Percent or per cent

pC may mean:

  • picocoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 10-12</sub> coulomb
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Codification

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People

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Title

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Product Identification

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Political parties

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Institutions

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Other initialisms

  • Politically correct, a reference to a wording that is likely to offend the smallest possible portion of a population
  • Piano concerto, a concerto for solo piano and orchestra
  • Picture Cover, a method of book binding in which the cover of the book has a picture relating to the contents
  • Player character or playable character, a fictional character controlled by a human player
  • post cibum (Latin for "after meals"), a medical prescription shorthand
  • Postcard or postal card, a typically piece of paper intended for mailing
  • Prime Cost items that a client hasn’t specifically selected at the time of the contract but the builder or trades person has made an allowance for in the total price.
  • Process Control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with architectures, mechanisms, and algorithms
  • Public convenience, another name for a toilet

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