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In
medicine
and
pharmaceutics
:
Phencyclidine
Phencyclidine
Phencyclidine , commonly initialized as PCP and known colloquially as angel dust, is a recreational dissociative drug...
, a recreational drug known by a number of street names including PCP, angel dust, embalming fluid, and rocket fuel
Primary care physician
Primary care physician
A primary care physician, or PCP, is a physician/medical doctor who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis....
, a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients
Primary care paramedic
Pneumocystis pneumonia
Pneumocystis pneumonia
Pneumocystis pneumonia or pneumocystosis is a form of pneumonia, caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii...
, a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus
Post-coital pill, a form of emergency contraception
In
politics
:
Paraguayan Communist Party
Paraguayan Communist Party
Paraguayan Communist Party is a communist political party in Paraguay. PCP was founded on February 19, 1928. Later it was recognized as a section of the Communist International. It was brutally suppressed during the military regimes of the country. It gained legality for a brief period in 1936 and...
Partido Comunista del Peru, also known as
Shining Path
Shining Path
Shining Path is a Maoist guerrilla terrorist organization in Peru. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", and as several other Peruvian groups, prefers to be called the "Communist Party of Peru" or "PCP-SL" in short...
Puerto Rican Communist Party
Puerto Rican Communist Party
The Puerto Rican Communist Party is a communist party in Puerto Rico.The PCP was formed in 1934 by dissident members of the Free Federation of Workers , the union arm of the Socialist Party. Its Secretary-General was Ramón Mirabal. Its membership always remained small, but it played a major role...
Peruvian Communist Party
Peruvian Communist Party
The Peruvian Communist Party is a communist party in Peru. It was founded in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui, under the name Partido Socialista del Perú . In 1930 the name was changed to PCP...
Portuguese Communist Party
Portuguese Communist Party
The Portuguese Communist Party is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party, and its organization is based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself to be patriotic and internationalist....
Proletarian Catalan Party
Proletarian Catalan Party
Proletarian Catalan Party was a political party in Catalonia, Spain. PCP was founded in January 1934. Its main leader was Jaume Compte...
In
science
:
Parallel coordinate plot, a method for visualizing multivariate data
PCP theorem
PCP theorem
In computational complexity theory, the PCP theorem states that every decision problem in the NP complexity class has probabilistically checkable proofs of constant query complexity and logarithmic randomness complexity .The PCP theorem says that for some universal constant K, for every...
, a theorem in computational complexity theory
Pentachlorophenol
Pentachlorophenol
Pentachlorophenol is an organochlorine compound used as a pesticide and a disinfectant. First produced in the 1930s, it is marketed under many trade names...
, timber preservative herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and algaecide
Post correspondence problem
Post correspondence problem
The Post correspondence problem is an undecidable decision problem that was introduced by Emil Post in 1946. Because it is simpler than the halting problem and the Entscheidungsproblem it is often used in proofs of undecidability....
, an important problem in computability theory
Priority ceiling protocol
Priority ceiling protocol
In real-time computing, the priority ceiling protocol is a synchronization protocol for shared resources to avoid unbounded priority inversion and mutual deadlock due to wrong nesting of critical sections...
, a computer science concept
Probabilistically checkable proof (complexity), a notion in the theory of computational complexity
Put–call parity
Put–call parity
In financial mathematics, put–call parity defines a relationship between the price of a European call option and European put option in a frictionless market —both with the identical strike price and expiry, and the underlying being a liquid asset. In the absence of liquidity, the existence of a...
, in financial mathematics a relationship between the price of a call option and a put option
In
technology
:
Performance Co-Pilot
Performance Co-Pilot
Performance Co-Pilot is an open source infrastructure for monitoring, visualizing, recording, responding to, and controlling the status, activity, and performance of networks, computers, applications, and servers.-Features:...
, an open-source performance monitoring system
Pre-Charged Pneumatic, a type of air gun
Priority Code Point, a 3-bit priority field within an Ethernet frame header when using
IEEE 802.1q
IEEE 802.1Q
IEEE 802.1Q is the networking standard that supports Virtual LANs on an Ethernet network. The standard defines a system of VLAN tagging for Ethernet frames and the accompanying procedures to be used by bridges and switches in handling such frames...
tagged frames.
Miscellaneous
:
Faster/P.C.P.
Faster/P.C.P.
"Faster/P.C.P." is a double A-side single by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. It is the ninth track from their 1994 studio album, The Holy Bible, and was released as the album’s lead single in June 1994. It reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart...
, a single by Manic Street Preachers, from their 1994 album
The Holy Bible
Purple City Productions
Purple City Productions
Purple City is a Harlem-based rap crew. The original members include Shiest Bub, Agallah, and Un Kasa. In more recent years the roster has extended to include artists such as A-Mafia, Streets da Block, Den.10, Smoke & Numbers, and Doe Boy Choch.-History:...
, a Harlem-based rap group
Personal Contract Purchase
Personal Contract Purchase
A personal contract purchase is a form of vehicle finance for individual purchasers which has similarities to both personal contract hire and hire purchase...
, a car financing product
Principia Cybernetica Project, an organization and website devoted to evolutionary-cybernetic philosophy
PCP, an East Atlanta based punk rock cooperative