PCB may refer to:
Science and technology
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Polychlorinated biphenyl
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1979 and internationally by t ...
, an organic chlorine compound, now recognized as an environmental toxin and classified as a persistent organic pollutant
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Printed circuit board
A printed circuit board (PCB; also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in Electrical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a L ...
, a board used in electronics
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Plenum chamber burning
An afterburner (or reheat in British English) is an additional combustion component used on some jet engines, mostly those on military supersonic aircraft. Its purpose is to increase thrust, usually for supersonic flight, takeoff, and co ...
, in some jet engines
Computing
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PCB (software)
PCB is a free and open-source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) - for printed circuit boards (PCB) layout. It uses GTK+ for its GUI widgets.
History
PCB was first written by Thomas Nau for an Atari ST in 1990 and ported to UNIX ...
, software to design printed circuit boards
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PCBoard
PCBoard (PCB) was a bulletin board system (BBS) application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Clark Development Company. Clark Development was founded by Fred Clark. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and was ...
, bulletin board software for MS-DOS
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Process control block A process control block (PCB) is a data structure used by computer operating systems to store all the information about a process. It is also known as a process descriptor. When a process is created (initialized or installed), the operating system c ...
, an operating system data structure
Organizations
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Pacific Coast Borax Company
The Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Smith, the "Borax King".
History
The roots of the Pacific Coast Borax Company lie in Mineral County, Nevada, east of ...
, an American mining company
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Pakistan Cricket Board
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is a sports governing body for cricket in Pakistan responsible for controlling and organising all tours and matches undertaken by the Pakistan national cricket team. A member of the International Cricket Coun ...
, national regulatory board for cricket in Pakistan
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Partido Comunista Bolchevique
Bolshevik Communist Party ( es, Partido Comunista Bolchevique) was a communist group in Mexico during the 1960s. PCB was founded in August 1963 by a group that had been expelled from the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) in April 1962. The group had ...
'', the Bolshevik Communist Party in Mexico in the 1960s
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Partido Comunista Brasileiro
The Brazilian Communist Party ( pt-BR, Partido Comunista Brasileiro), originally the Communist Party of Brazil (), is a communist party in Brazil founded on 25 March 1922 which makes the disputed claim of being the oldest political party stil ...
'', the
Brazilian Communist Party
The Brazilian Communist Party ( pt-BR, Partido Comunista Brasileiro), originally the Communist Party of Brazil (), is a communist party in Brazil founded on 25 March 1922 which makes the disputed claim of being the oldest political party stil ...
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Partido Comunista de Bolivia
The Communist Party of Bolivia ( es, Partido Comunista de 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 (PIR). It remained small and did not h ...
'', the Communist Party of Bolivia
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PCB Piezotronics
PCB 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. ...
, a manufacturer of piezoelectric sensors
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Police Complaints Board
The Police Complaints Board (PCB) 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 A ...
, in England and Wales
Places
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Panama City Beach, Florida
Panama City Beach is a resort town in Bay County, Florida, Bay County, Florida, United States, on the Gulf of Mexico coast. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had a population of 12,018. The city is often referred to under the u ...
, US
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Pondok Cabe Airport
Pondok Cabe Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Pondok Cabe) is a combined civilian and military airport in Pondok Cabe, Pamulang, South Tangerang. The airport is owned by the state oil company Pertamina and operated by Pelita Air Service, which also ow ...
(IATA code), Indonesia
Other uses
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Penetration-cum-blast
The Arjun () is a third generation main battle tank developed by the Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE) of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), for the Indian Army. The tank is named after Arju ...
, ammunition type for the Arjun tank's 120mm cannon
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Pablo Carreño Busta
Pablo Carreño Busta (; born 12 July 1991) is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which he first achieved on 11 September 2017. He also reached a best ...
, Spanish tennis player
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Perfect Cherry Blossom
is a 2003 vertical Shoot 'em up#Bullet hell, bullet hell scrolling shooter, scrolling shoot 'em up developed by Team Shanghai Alice. It is the seventh game in the ''Touhou Project'' series. Playable characters include returning protagonists Reimu ...
'', the seventh official game in the Japanese ''Touhou'' series by ZUN
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Public call box, a telephone booth
*PCB,
Bible translations into Persian Bible translations into Persian have been made since the fourth or fifth century, although few early manuscripts survive. There are both Jewish and Christian translations from the Middle Ages. Complete translations of the Hebrew Bible and Greek New ...
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