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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.

Co-host Joy Behar, also a comedian, had asked Allen about "pc culture" which she said made comedy "really hard."

From Fox News ● Nov. 26, 2019

Bill Gates promised a pc on every desktop and delivered.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018

If we take m to be zero in this equation, then E = pc , or p = E / c .

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

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

Sc, Sclerotic. ch, Choroid. pc, Ciliary processes. mc, Ciliary muscle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

Intel is continuing to put its limited supply of front-end wafers toward server chips rather than PC chips, Susquehanna analyst Christopher Rolland said in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Speaking to The Telegraph, PC Harper's mother Debbie Adlam said she had received a letter from the MoJ confirming their sentences might be reduced.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The company’s client-computing group, which includes PC CPUs, is expected to see second-quarter revenue of $8 billion, which would represent year-over-year growth of just 1.7%, according to FactSet.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

PC Harper's mother Debbie Adlam said it felt "like a slap in the face"

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

It's a great way to make a statement, but at $250 a pop, being p.c. can be costly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Recently Japan's most prominent gangsters reportedly complained -- in a p.c. fashion -- that laws to curtail their activities were "a violation of their human rights."

From Time Magazine Archive

The other important figures are sugar 12, and metals 11 p.c.

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

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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