PCI may refer to:
Business and economics
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Payment card industry
The payment card industry (PCI) denotes the debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards and associated businesses.
Overview
The payment card industry consists of all the organizations which store, process and transmit cardholder data, ...
, businesses associated with debit, credit, and other payment cards
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Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands. The standard is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council and its use i ...
, a set of security requirements for credit card processors
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Provincial Competitiveness Index, a governance index of Vietnamese provinces
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Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index, a U.S. economic indicator based on trucking fuel consumption
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Per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population.
Per capita i ...
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Equitable PCI Bank
Equitable PCI Bank, Inc. () was one of the largest banks in the Philippines, being the third-largest bank in terms of assets. It was the largest bank before it was overtaken by Metrobank in 1995. It is the result of the merger of Equitable Bankin ...
, a Philippine bank
Science and technology
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Panel call indicator Panel Call Indicator, or PCI, is a form of signalling used between two telephone offices. It was also originally called Relay Call Indicator (RCI).
Originally designed along with the panel type telephone office, PCI was intended to allow subscri ...
, telephone signalling system
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Pavement condition index, used in transportation civil engineering
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Picocurie
The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-International System of Units, SI unit of Radioactive decay, radioactivity originally defined in 1910. According to a notice in ''Nature (magazine), Nature'' at the time, it was to be named in honour of Pierre Curie ...
(pCi), a unit of radioactivity
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Peripheral Component Interconnect
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format th ...
, a computer bus
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PCI-X
PCI-X, short for Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended, is a computer bus and expansion card standard that enhances the 32-bit PCI local bus for higher bandwidth demanded mostly by servers and workstations. It uses a modified protocol t ...
(PCI eXtended), a computer bus
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PCI Express
PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It is the common ...
(PCIe), a computer bus
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Projects of Common Interest, a category of EU projects for interconnecting energy infrastructures
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Protocol-control information
In telecommunication, the term protocol-control information or PCI has the following meanings:
# The queries and replies among communications equipment to determine the respective capabilities of each end of the communications link.
# For laye ...
, in telecommunication
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Pulverized coal injection method
Pulverized coal injection is a method for improving the performance of a blast furnace.
Background
Iron is a metal that has fundamentally affected the way of life of human beings ever since the Iron Age. It is relatively abundant and can easily b ...
, in blast furnaces
Medicine
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Percutaneous coronary intervention
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a non-surgical procedure used to treat narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary artery disease. The process involves combining coronary angioplasty with stenting, which is the ...
, a set of procedures used to treat coronary heart disease
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Photochemical internalization, a light-triggered drug delivery method
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Potato carboxypeptidase inhibitor Potato carboxypeptidase inhibitor (PCI) is a naturally occurring protease inhibitor peptide in potatoes that can form complexes with several metallo-carboxypeptidases, inhibiting them in a strong competitive way with a Ki in the nanomolar range ...
, a natural peptide usable for thrombolytic and cancer therapy
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Prophylactic cranial irradiation
Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) is a technique used to combat the occurrence of metastasis to the brain in highly aggressive cancers that commonly metastasize to brain, most notably small-cell lung cancer. Radiation therapy is commonly use ...
, a management option for certain types of aggressive cancers
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Protein C inhibitor
Protein C inhibitor (PCI, SERPINA5) is a serine protease inhibitor (serpin) that limits the activity of protein C (an anticoagulant).
An N-terminal fragment of PCI is a possible serum biomarker for prostate cancer.
Protein C inhibitor is activate ...
, a serine protease inhibitor
Organizations
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Paralympic Committee of India
The Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) is the body responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Paralympic Games and other international athletic meets and for managing the Indian teams at the events.
The organisation was found ...
, which selects athletes to represent India at international athletic meets
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Parti Communiste Internationaliste
The Internationalist Communist Party (french: Parti Communiste Internationaliste, PCI) was a Trotskyist political party in France. It was the name taken by the French Section of the Fourth International from its foundation until a name change in ...
'', a French political party
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Partito Comunista Italiano
The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy.
The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...
'', a former Italian communist party
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Peer Community in, communities of researchers reviewing and recommending preprints in their field
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Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (New York)
The Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (New York) was a short-lived co-educational collegiate institute operated initially by the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America at Saratoga Springs, New York from September 1900 to May 1902, and from ...
, 1900–1903, US
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Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (Rhode Island)
The Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (Rhode Island) was a co-educational interdenominational collegiate institute located at North Scituate, Rhode Island from September 1902 to 1918. PCI was incorporated in Rhode Island and operated by its own b ...
, 1902–1918, US
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Pharmacy Council of India
The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) is the statutory body under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
It is constituted under the Pharmacy Act, 1948. The Council was first constituted on 4 March 1948. Dr. Montukumar Patel ...
, a statutory body in India
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Porter and Chester Institute
Porter and Chester Institute is a for-profit technical school with nine locations throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts in the United States. Porter and Chester Institute features 10 different career programs.
Campuses
Porter and Chester In ...
, a technical school in Connecticut and Massachusetts, US
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Post Carbon Institute
Post Carbon Institute (PCI) is a think tank which provides information and analysis on climate change, energy scarcity, and other issues related to sustainability and long term community Resilience (ecology), resilience. Its Fellows specialize in ...
, an organization advocating a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world
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Presbyterian Church in Ireland
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI; ga, Eaglais Phreispitéireach in Éirinn; Ulster-Scots: ''Prisbytairin Kirk in Airlann'') is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the Republic of Ireland, and the largest Protestant denomination in ...
, a Protestant denomination in Ireland
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Project Concern International
PCI (Project Concern International) is a non-profit, humanitarian NGO based in San Diego, California. PCI reaches nearly 19 million people a year through programs in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
PCI's programs address a broad range of topics ...
, a humanitarian organization
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Public Communications Inc.
Public Communications Inc. (PCI) is a Chicago, Illinois-based communications agency specializing in crisis and issues management counsel, digital and social marketing services, and integrated communications for healthcare, conservation/environment ...
, a Chicago-based national public relations agency
Other uses
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Duruwa language
Duruwa ( Odia: ପରଜି, Devanagari: दुरुवा) or Dhurwa or Parji is a Central Dravidian language spoken by the Duruwa people of India, in the districts of Koraput in Odisha and Bastar in Chhattisgarh. The language is related to ...
(ISO 639-3 code)
See also
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PPCI (disambiguation)
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