PCB
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Science and technology:
- Printed circuit boardPrinted circuit boardA printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring...
, a board used in electronics - PCB (software)PCB (software)PCB is an open source software suite for electronic design automation - for printed circuit boards layout.-History:PCB was not the first written by Thomas Nau for an Atari ST in 1990 and ported to UNIX and X11 in 1994...
, software to design printed circuit boards - PCBoardPCBoardPCBoard was a bulletin board system application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Clark Development Corporation. Clark Development was founded by Fred Clark. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and was considered one of the "high end" packages during the rapid...
, bulletin board software for MS-DOS - Polychlorinated biphenylPolychlorinated biphenylPolychlorinated biphenyls are a class of organic compounds with 2 to 10 chlorine atoms attached to biphenyl, which is a molecule composed of two benzene rings. The chemical formula for PCBs is C12H10-xClx...
s, organic compounds - Plenum chamber burning, proposed jet engine technology for the thrust vectoringThrust vectoringThrust vectoring, also thrust vector control or TVC, is the ability of an aircraft, rocket or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its engine or motor in order to control the attitude or angular velocity of the vehicle....
Rolls-Royce PegasusRolls-Royce PegasusThe Rolls-Royce Pegasus is a turbofan engine originally designed by Bristol Siddeley, and now manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc. This engine is able to direct thrust downwards which can then be swivelled to power a jet aircraft forward. Lightly loaded, it can also manoeuvre like a helicopter,...
engine - Power circuit breakerCircuit breakerA circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overload or short circuit. Its basic function is to detect a fault condition and, by interrupting continuity, to immediately discontinue electrical flow...
, an automatically operated electrical switch - Process control blockProcess control blockProcess Control Block is a data structure in the operating system kernel containing the information needed to manage a particular process...
, a data structure in software - PCB PiezotronicsPCB PiezotronicsPCB Piezotronics is a manufacturer of piezoelectric sensors.The name "PCB" is abbreviation for "PicoCoulomB" which is technical terminology defining an electrical charge of the type generated by the piezoelectric sensors they manufacture. "Piezotronics" combines the science of Piezoelectricity and...
, a manufacturer of piezoelectric sensors
Government:
- Brazilian Communist PartyBrazilian Communist PartyBrazilian Communist Party is the oldest political party still active in Brazil, founded in 1922, and one of the only Brazilian parties with a Stalinist orientation...
, Partido Comunista Brasileiro - Communist Party of BoliviaCommunist Party of BoliviaThe Communist Party of Bolivia is a communist party in Bolivia. It was founded in 1950 by Raúl Ruiz González and other former members of the Revolutionary Left Party . It remained small and did not hold its first national party congress until 1959....
, Partido Comunista de Bolivia - Police Complaints BoardPolice Complaints BoardThe Police Complaints Board was the British government organisation tasked with overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales from 1 June 1977 until it was replaced by the Police Complaints Authority on 29 April 1985.Like its replacement, the Police...
, in England and Wales
Other uses:
- Pakistan Cricket BoardPakistan Cricket BoardThe Pakistan Cricket Board is a sporting organization that is responsible for governing all professional cricket including Test cricket and One Day International matches played in Pakistan...
, regulatory board for cricket in Pakistan - Panama City Beach, FloridaPanama City Beach, FloridaPanama City Beach is a city in Bay County, Florida, United States, on the Gulf of Mexico coast. The city is often referred to under the umbrella term of "Panama City", despite being a distinct municipality from the older and larger inland Panama City to the east, making Panama City and Panama City...
- Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor, a university in Wales
- Perfect Cherry BlossomPerfect Cherry Blossomis a vertical-scrolling manic shooter made by Team Shanghai Alice, and is the seventh official game of the Touhou Project. The full game was first released on August 17, 2003, in the 64th Comiket in Japan.- Gameplay :...
, a computer game - Phelps County Bank, a bank in Missouri, United States