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  pc

  picocurie; picocuries.
• PC
  PC

  abbreviation

  Peace Corps.
• pc.
  pc.

  abbreviation

  piece.
• P/C
  P/C

  abbreviation

  petty cash.
• p.c.
  p.c.

  abbreviation

  (in prescriptions) after eating; after meals.
• P.C.
  P.C.

  abbreviation

  Past Commander.

pc

¹ American  

1. picocurie; picocuries.

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PC ² American  

abbreviation

1. Peace Corps.

2. personal computer.

3. player character.

4. politically correct.

5. printed circuit.

6. professional corporation.

7. pubococcygeus.

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pc. ³ American  

abbreviation

• pcs
  plural

1. piece.

2. prices.

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P/C ⁴ American  

Or p/c

abbreviation

1. petty cash.

2. price current.

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p.c. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) after eating; after meals.

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p.c. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. percent.

2. petty cash.

3. postal card.

4. price current.

5. printed circuit.

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P.C. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. Past Commander.

2. British. Police Constable.

3. politically correct.

4. Post Commander.

5. British. Prince Consort.

6. British. Privy Council.

7. professional corporation.

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pc ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. per cent

2. postcard

3. obsolete (in prescriptions) post cibum

4. parsec

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PC ² British  

abbreviation

1. personal computer

2. Parish Council(lor)

3. Past Commander

4. (in Britain and Canada) Police Constable

5. politically correct

6. Prince Consort

7. (in Britain and Canada) Privy Council(lor)

8. (in Canada) Progressive Conservative

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P/C ³ British  

abbreviation

1. petty cash

2. price current

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p.c. Cultural  

1. An abbreviation for “p olitically c orrect.” It refers to social, political, and educational changes designed to redress historical injustices in areas such as race, gender, ethnic background, and sexual orientation: “Haven't you read the latest directive on p.c. language? Please refer to our colleagues as ‘women,’ not ‘ladies’ or ‘girls.’” The phrase and abbreviation, which also appears as PC, both debuted in the late twentieth century.

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PC Idioms  

1. Also, p.c. An abbreviation for politically correct.

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Etymology

Origin of p.c.

From Latin post cibōs

Example Sentences

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pc PC pc. p.c. P.C.

Comedy superstar Jerry Seinfeld previously said he's been warned against performing at colleges because their too "pc."

From Fox News ● Nov. 26, 2019

Bill Gates promised a pc on every desktop and delivered.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018

He went on: “I don’t play colleges but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so pc.’

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2015

To conduct the test, we use a pooled proportion, pc.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013

The border-curve being rather broad at the top, there are many isentropic curves which penetrate the heterogeneous region under a pressure which differs but little from pc.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

The message is more sober than Gates’s 2023 essay on AI, when he wrote he was as excited about this revolution as the internet and PC rollouts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

HP HPQ 3.39%increase; up pointing triangle reported revenue growth in the third quarter, as higher prices and demand for personal computers optimized for artificial intelligence more than offset a decline in PC sales volumes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The company on Wednesday said its efforts to address the crunch led to improvements in both memory supply and fulfillment rates, adding that it continues to see strong growth in its AI PC portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

PC Tom Clough, 38, died alongside his colleague PC Matthew Blades, 37, when a Volkswagen Passat, which officers had been pursuing until seconds before, collided with their vehicle on the A66 near Middlesbrough on Saturday.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

“You should buy a handbag too,” Benji said, giving back the PC.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

To the naked eye, the hats may be mistaken for an overturned bucket of the chain's signature 8 pc. fried chicken meal.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023

More telling is Jobs' view that the p.c. world is "slipping away."

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2010

There's a lot about the p.c. world we'd all like to see disappear, but freedom to make our own choices is not one of them.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2010

Keepers of the p.c. flame have renamed New York's grand old Bronx Zoo -- to be known henceforth as the International Wildlife Conservation Park -- feeling that the word zoo has taken on unfortunate connotations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new grass-roots female militancy is not something that a women's studies professor would judge p.c.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sikhs.—Notwithstanding heavy losses by plague Sikhs have increased by 37 p.c.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie

Assuming that’s the case, Neil Carbone, a trusts and estates partner at the law firm Farrell Fritz, P.C., believes that would be feasible.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026

Attorneys at the James & Hoffman, P.C., law firm are arguing in their proposed class action that this mass firing constitutes a reduction-in-force action, which would require a 60-day notice.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

The plaintiffs' counsel Seeger Weiss LLP and Douglas & London P.C. said the settlement will resolve litigation against AstraZeneca for about 11,000 claims.

From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023

"After using equations that describe the flow of granular materials," says James Gilchrist, the Ruth H. and Sam Madrid Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Lehigh's P.C.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023

With dinner about to be served, this was hardly the moment to be summoning P.C.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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