General Science
- Parking Distance Control, is a system used in cars to measure the distance between the car and obstacles
- Pulsed DC, the form of wave produced from a half-wave rectifier or a full-wave rectifier
- Pyroclastic density current, a highly energetic ground current of superheated gases containing a high density of suspended pyroclastic fragments resulting from a volcanic explosion
- Plasmacytoid dendritic cell, a type of mammalian cell that functions as a component of the innate immune system
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