PC

Initialism of personal computer.
1. A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.
  - 1987, InfoWorld (volume 9, issues 27-39, page 28)
    “For some of the imaging we do,” says Richard Miner, research manager at the University of Lowell's Center for Productivity Enhancement, “we are using both the Amiga and the PC [with the bridge card]. […]
  - 2006, Sonia Weiss, Streetwise Selling On Ebay, →ISBN, page 89:
    In general, the prices for PC and Mac laptops can be competitive, […]
  - 2010, Ann Raimes; Maria Jerskey, Keys for Writers, →ISBN, page 297:
    Versions of Word for PC and Mac
    It is not unusual to find both Mac and PC computers in college computer laboratories, so you may need to become familiar with both Word for PCs and Word for Mac.
Initialism of parsec.
Initialism of photocopy.
(medicine) Initialism of presenting complaint.
(gaming) Initialism of player character.
Antonym: NPC
(Britain, Canada, Hong Kong, law enforcement) Initialism of police constable.
Initialism of political correctness.
(organic chemistry) Initialism of polycarbonate.
(anatomy) Initialism of posterior commissure.
Initialism of privy council.
Initialism of privy councillor. and postnominal.
Initialism of press conference.
(US) Initialism of probable cause.
Initialism of Probate Court.
(film) Initialism of Production Code.
Initialism of Professional Corporation.
(computing) Initialism of program counter.
Initialism of progressive contextualization.
(Canadian politics, dated) Initialism of Progressive Conservative.
(Canadian politics, by extension) A member of the Conservative Party of Canada. [since 2003]
Initialism of protective custody.
Initialism of private chat.
Initialism of patrol craft.
(anatomy) Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
(bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
(gambling) Abbreviation of percentage.
- 1978, John Scarne, Scarne's guide to casino gambling (page 321)
  The honest casino operator obtains it either by levying a direct charge or by extracting a favorable P.C. (percentage) […]
- 1997, Benny J. Berry, Gambling's Greatest Secrets Revealed:
  […] but in the long run, the casino's PC (percentage) for casino games will erode your bankroll.
(organic chemistry) Abbreviation of propylene carbonate.

QuotationsEdit

2005, Lance Parkin, The Gallifrey Chronicles, page 79
‘I talked them out of that, and now one of their PCs is letting me borrow their PC. Very PC of him, I thought,’ the Doctor explained.
The three uses in this quotation mean police constable, personal computer, and politically correct, respectively.

Derived termsEdit

(police constable): WPC

TranslationsEdit

initialism of personal computer

Armenian: ԱՀ (hy) (AH)
Burmese: ပီစီ (pici)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 個人電腦／个人电脑 (zh) (gèrén diànnǎo)
German: PC (de) m
Greek: Η/Υ (el) m (I/Y)
Hindi: पी सी (pī sī)
Italian: PC (it)
Japanese: パソコン (ja) (pasokon), PC (ja)
Korean: 피시 (ko) (pisi)
Russian: ПК (ru) m (PK)
Thai: พีซี (th) (pii-sii)
Ukrainian: ПК m (PK)

ReferencesEdit

(organic chemistry) Bashford, David. Thermoplastics: Directory and databook; →ISBN. London: Chapman & Hall, 1997.

Proper nounEdit

PC

Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
Initialism of Penn Central.
(US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
(UK politics) Initialism of Plaid Cymru.
(US) Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
(Canada, politics) Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
(Canada, politics, dated) Initialism of Progressive Conservative Party.

VerbEdit

PC (third-person singular simple present PCs, present participle PCing, simple past and past participle PCed)

(sometimes with up) To make politically correct.
- 1991 December, Renée Gearhart Levy, “PC’ed Out,” Syracuse University Magazine, quoted in Steven Mailloux, Reception Histories, Cornell University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 169.
- a. 2005, John Donoghue, Shakespeare My Butt, Second Edition, Troubador Publishing Ltd (2005), →ISBN, page 193:
  However, the process of ‘PC’ing’ cheese on toast was too much for me.
- 2005, Matthew Coker, Explanations 2005, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 272:
  Becoming up in arms against the ACLU and others who are PCing Christmas really will amount to nothing in the end.
- 2008, Giz, Ménage à 3
  Zii: Weren’t they purple, though?
  
  Gary: That was the cartoon. Hanna-Barbera PCed it up for Amer…