TPC

TPC may stand for terms related to:

engineering and computing:

  • Thin Plated Copper cathode
  • Tonnes per centimeter, used in maritime cargo plans and hydrostatic calculations, relates a vessel's displacement to its draft (also known as "tonnes per centimeter immersion")
  • Total Plant Cost in relation to electricity generation facilities
  • Transmission Power Control
  • Transmit Power Control
  • Trans Pacific Cable, see submarine communications cable
  • Turbo Product Code, a popular Forward error correction (FEC) technique used in satellite communications
  • Tunnelling Process Control is a comprehensive TBM monitoring, analysis and data information management tool
  • Two-phase commit protocol, a distributed algorithm to commit a transaction

science:

  • Technical Program Chair/Committee, the group of experts that is responsible for accepting or rejecting contributions to an Academic conference
  • Thresholds of Potential Concern (set of operational goals that define spatio temporal heterogeneity)
  • Time projection chamber, a type of particle detector
  • Twin prime conjecture

transportation:

  • TPC, the ICAO code for the airline Air Calédonie
  • Trieste - Poreč - Kanfanar narrow gauge railway 1902-1935, better known as Parenzana

sports:

  • The Players Championship, a golf tournament
  • Tournament Players Club, a chain of golf clubs
  • Two-point conversion

company names:

  • The Pampered Chef, Ltd.
  • The Phone Company, an email-to-fax service
  • TPC Group, a petrochemical company formerly known as Texas Petrochemicals

organizations and centers:

  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
  • Transaction Processing Performance Council, a non-profit IT organization
  • Tropical Prediction Center (National Hurricane Center)

arts and media:

  • The People's Court, a U.S. court show
  • Tokyo Police Club, an indie band from Newmarket, Ontario
  • The Political Cesspool, a U.S.-based white nationalist talk radio show
  • The People's Cube, a satirical website