PCE may stand for:

Business and economics

* Personal consumption expenditure, or private consumption expenditure * Personal consumption expenditures price index, a measure of inflation

Chemistry and engineering

* PCE or eticyclidine, an illegal drug related to Phencyclidine (PCP) * Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), widely used in dry-cleaning * Pro-opiomelanocortin converting enzyme, an enzyme * Pyrometric cone equivalent, measuring heat in the firing of pottery * Power conversion efficiency, a near synonym for "

Energy conversion efficiency Energy conversion efficiency (''η'') is the ratio between the useful output of an energy conversion machine and the input, in energy terms. The input, as well as the useful output may be chemical, electric power, mechanical work, light (radia ...

" often used in the field of photovoltaics

Computing

Path computation element In computer networks, a path computation element (PCE) is a system component, application, or network node that is capable of determining and finding a suitable route for conveying data between a source and a destination.RFC 4655"A Path Computation ...

, a network element used for pathfinding *

Principle of computational equivalence ''A New Kind of Science'' is a book by Stephen Wolfram, published by his company Wolfram Research under the imprint Wolfram Media in 2002. It contains an empirical and systematic study of computational systems such as cellular automata. Wolfram c ...

, a concept developed by Stephen Wolfram published in the book ''A New Kind of Science'' * PC Engine, a video game console

Medicine

Prenatal cocaine exposure Prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE), theorized in the 1970s, occurs when a pregnant woman uses cocaine and thereby exposes her fetus to the drug. Babies whose mothers used cocaine while pregnant supposedly have increased risk of several different hea ...

, exposure of a fetus to cocaine when a pregnant woman uses the drug * Eticyclidine, a dissociative anesthetic drug

Organizations

Paavai College of Engineering Academics PEC awards Bachelor of Engineering A Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) or a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) is an academic undergraduate degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at an accred ...

, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India * Padmanava College of Engineering, Rourkela, an engineering college in Rourkela, Orissa state, India *

Parents for Choice in Education Parents for Choice in Education (PCE) is an advocacy group in Utah that pushes for school choice programs including private school vouchers, and supports anti-union legislation. Organization PCE, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, operates ...

, an advocacy group in Utah, U.S. *

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment __NOTOC__ The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (''Te Kaitiaki Taiao a Te Whare Pāremata'' in Māori) is an independent Officer of the New Zealand Parliament appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the House of R ...

, New Zealand government agency

Political parties

Spain

* PCE, Communist Party of Spain or "Partido Comunista de España" * PCE(i), Communist Party of Spain (International)(1975) or ''Partido Comunista de España(Internacional)'' * PCE(m-l),

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) The Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) ( es, Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista)) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Spain, founded in 2006 by the ''Statewide Coordination of Communist Organiza ...

or ''Partido Comunista de España (Marxista-Leninista)'' * PCE(ML),

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) (historical) The Communist Party of Spain ( Marxist-Leninist) (in Spanish: ''Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista)'', PCE (m-l)) is a communist political party in Spain, formed in 1964 through the merger of splinter groups of the Communist Party of ...

or ''Partido Comunista de España (Marxista-Leninista)'' * PCE(M-R),

Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity (in Spanish: ''Partido de los Trabajadores de España–Unidad Comunista'') was a communist political party in Spain, founded by Santiago Carrillo and his followers after their expulsion from the Communist ...

or ''Partido de los Trabajadores de España–Unidad Comunista'' * PCE(R), Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) or ''Partido Comunista de España (Reconstituido)''

Other countries

* ''

Parti Communautaire Européen The Parti Communautaire Européen (PCE) was a pan-European nationalist political party based in Belgium that had a platform similar to National Bolshevism. The party was initially formed in 1965 by Jean-François Thiriart as a political group to ...

'', a political party in Belgium * '' Partido Comunista del Ecuador'', the Communist Party of Ecuador

Other

* ISO 639:pce or Palaung language, spoken in Burma and neighboring countries *

Passenger car equivalent Passenger car equivalent (PCE) or passenger car unit (PCU) is a metric used in transportation engineering, to assess traffic-flow rate on a highway. A passenger car equivalent is essentially the impact that a mode of transport has on traffic var ...

, a measure of traffic flow * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Patrol craft escort (PCE) *

Power cost equalization This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Alaska, sorted by type and name. In 2019, Alaska had a total summer capacity of 2,760 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 5,944 GWh. ...

, a state subsidy in Alaska *

Pardubice Pardubice (; german: Pardubitz) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 89,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monu ...

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