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pc

1 American  

  1. picocurie; picocuries.

PC 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Peace Corps.

  2. personal computer.

  3. player character.

  4. politically correct.

  5. printed circuit.

  6. professional corporation.

  7. pubococcygeus.

pc. 3 American  

abbreviation

plural

pcs

  1. piece.

  2. prices.

P/C 4 American  
Or p/c

abbreviation

  1. petty cash.

  2. price current.

p.c. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) after eating; after meals.

p.c. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. percent.

  2. petty cash.

  3. postal card.

  4. price current.

  5. printed circuit.

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.

PC 1 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 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. petty cash

  2. price current

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pc 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. per cent

  2. postcard

  3. obsolete (in prescriptions) post cibum

  4. parsec

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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.

PC Idioms  

  1. Also, p.c. An abbreviation for politically correct.

Etymology

Origin of p.c.

From Latin post cibōs

Example Sentences

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Valve, the company behind PC games store Steam, said the issue meant it had to revise the launch date and pricing of its PC-console hybrid announced late last year.

From BBC

PC manufacturers face a CPU supply crunch, leading to 10% to 15% price hikes and planned increases from Intel and AMD.

From Barron's

Nikkei Asia reported both companies had informed clients of a plan to increase prices for all series of CPUs amid a supply crunch in the PC and server CPU markets.

From Barron's

In January, Intel introduced the consumer version of the PC chips, code-named Panther Lake, as the first to be designed on “the most advanced semiconductor process ever developed and manufactured in the United States.”

From MarketWatch

Still, the PC market has been negatively impacted by the shortage of memory chips and now a scarcity of CPUs, which have become critical components of AI data centers.

From MarketWatch

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