PC - Other Initialisms and Symbols

Other Initialisms and Symbols

  • pc, symbol for the parsec, an astronomical measure of distance
  • pc, symbol for the pica, a typographic unit of measure
  • pC, symbol for the picocoulomb, a unit of electrostatic charge
  • PC, symbol for the petacoulomb, a unit of electrostatic charge
  • Partly cloudy, a weather forecast designation mostly used in North American English newspapers
  • Pitch class, in music, a set of all pitches that are a whole number of octaves apart
  • Pitch count, the amount of pitches a pitcher throws in baseball, softball, etc.
  • Postcard or postal card, a thick, typically rectangular piece of paper intended for mailing
  • Preclear (Scientology), a person who has not overcome the "reactive mind"
  • Pro-choice, the view that women should have the choice of whether or not to terminate a pregnancy
  • Program counter, a special register inside CPUs indicating where the computer is in its instruction sequence
  • Prontor-Compur, a standard connector type for photographic flash synchronization
  • Protective custody, a type of imprisonment or care to protect a person from harm
  • Proto-Celtic, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Celtic languages
  • Public convenience, a toilet

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Famous quotes containing the word symbols:

    I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)