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p.c.
1abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) after eating; after meals.
p.c.
2abbreviation for
- percent.
- petty cash.
- postal card.
- price current.
pc
3- picocurie; picocuries.
PC
4abbreviation for
pc.
5abbreviation for
- plural pcs piece.
- prices.
P/C
6abbreviation for
- petty cash.
- price current.
P.C.
7abbreviation for
- Past Commander.
- British. Police Constable.
- Post Commander.
- British. Prince Consort.
- British. Privy Council.
PC
1abbreviation for
- personal computer
- Parish Council(lor)
- Past Commander
- (in Britain and Canada) Police Constable
- politically correct
- Prince Consort
- (in Britain and Canada) Privy Council(lor)
- (in Canada) Progressive Conservative
pc
2abbreviation for
- per cent
- postcard
- obsolete.(in prescriptions) post cibum
- parsec
P/C
3abbreviation for
- petty cash
- price current
p.c.
- 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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Example Sentences
The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
In his signature style, it was the most un-PC and perhaps the most on point missive to come out of Canadian media.
From the dawn of supercomputing to the 2-in-1 PC, this is not so much a history of computers as it is the story of how we compute.
Between 1993 and 2003, the number of American households that owned a PC tripled.
They would go to PC Bang, a gaming cafe, for blocks of time because it was cheaper that way.
Let pc be the compression pressure and q the volume discharged per second per square foot of outlet area of fan.
She's wanted PC for herself, and was sure she was pure enough of heart to deserve to have the power.
The narrow passage connecting the pericardial (pc) and body cavities (pp).
The values of Tc and pc for different substances will be found at the end of this article.
Availing himself of this property, K. Olszewski has determined pc for hydrogen at 15 atmospheres.
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