PDC may refer to:
In science and technology
Chemistry, biology and medicine
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Phosducin, a human protein and gene in the retina
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Pyridinium dichromate (Cornforth reagent), a chromium-based oxidant
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Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, an enzyme complex
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Plasmacytoid dendritic cell Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are a rare type of immune cell that are known to secrete large quantities of type 1 interferon (IFNs) in response to a viral infection. They circulate in the blood and are found in peripheral lymphoid organs. T ...
Computing
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Peripheral DMA controller
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Personal decompression computer, for scuba divers
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Personal Digital Cellular
Personal Digital Cellular (PDC) was a 2G mobile telecommunications standard used exclusively in Japan.
After a peak of nearly 80 million subscribers to PDC, it had 46 million subscribers in December 2005, and was slowly phased out in favor of 3 ...
, a Japanese 2G mobile phone standard
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Domain Controller
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Professional Developers Conference, by Microsoft
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Programme Delivery Control
Programme delivery control (PDC) is specified by the standard ETS 300 231 (ETSI EN 300 231), published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). This specifies the signals sent as hidden codes in the teletext service, indica ...
, a teletext standard
Other uses in science and technology
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Power distribution center, electrical equipment
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Pulsed DC, type of electric current
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Pyroclastic density current or pyroclastic flow of a volcano
Politics and government
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Centrist Democratic Party (Rwanda)
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Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
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Partido Demócrata Cristiano (disambiguation), several parties in Central & South America
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Christian Democratic Party (Brazil)
The Christian Democratic Party ( pt, Partido Democrata Cristão, PDC) was a political party in Brazil founded in 1945. The PDC, a small party supporting traditional Christian values, never achieved electoral success and was banned by the military ...
(''Partido Democrata Cristão'')
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Catalan European Democratic Party
The Catalan European Democratic Party ( ca, Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català, PDeCAT, sometimes stylized as PDECat), initially branded as the Catalan Democratic Party ( ca, Partit Demòcrata Català, PDC), is a liberal political party in Spain ...
* Portland Development Commission, later
Prosper Portland, Oregon, US
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Washington State Public Disclosure Commission
The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) is an agency of the Washington state government that regulates candidates, campaigns and lobbyists. It enforces the state's disclosure and campaign finances laws, and provides public access to ...
, US
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Constitutional Democratic Party
The Constitutional Democratic Party (russian: Конституцио́нно-демократи́ческая па́ртия, translit=Konstitutsionno-demokraticheskaya partiya, K-D), also called Constitutional Democrats and formally the Party of P ...
, Italy
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Parlementair Documentatie Centrum
The Parlementair Documentatie Centrum (PDC), in English the Parliamentary Documentation Centre, is a Dutch institute connected to Leiden University that documents parliamentary history. It is part of the Montesquieu Institute on Campus The Hague ...
(Parliamentary Documentation Centre), (Netherlands), an institute that documents Dutch parliamentary history
Organizations
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PDC (gang)
The PDC (Pray Days Change, Public Demand Cartel, or Poverty Driven Children, formerly Peel Dem Crew or Pussy Drugs Cash) was a street gang based in Brixton, London, England, mainly the Angell Town Estate. During the 1990s, they were the larges ...
, later rap group, London, UK
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Pacific Disaster Center
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is an applied science, information and technology center, working to reduce disaster risks and impacts on life, property, and the economies worldwide.
PDC's products and services are used to support sound decision ma ...
, disaster preparedness institute based in Hawaii
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Partisan Defense Committee
The Partisan Defense Committee describes itself as "a class-struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization that champions cases and causes in the interests of the whole of the working people." The PDC works in accordance with the po ...
, a Trotskyist legal defense organization
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Phi Delta Chi
Phi Delta Chi ( or Phi Dex) is a coed. professional fraternity, founded on 2 November 1883 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan by eleven men, under the sponsorship of Dean Albert B. Prescott. The fraternity was formed to advance ...
, pharmaceutical fraternity at the University of Michigan
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Philosophy Documentation Center
The Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC) is a non-profit publisher and resource center that provides access to scholarly materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines. It publishes academic journal ...
, a publisher
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Producers Distributing Corporation
Producers Distributing Corporation was a short-lived Hollywood film distribution company, organized in 1924 and dissolved in March 1927. In its brief heyday, film director Cecil B. DeMille was its primary shareholder and major talent.
Corporat ...
, 1920s US film company
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Professional Darts Corporation, operates darts competitions
Other uses
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Pennsylvania Dutch language
Pennsylvania Dutch (, or ), referred to as Pennsylvania German in scholarly literature, is a variety of Palatine German, also known as Palatine Dutch, spoken by the Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other descendants ...
(ISO 639-3 language code)
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, a game console
* Permaculture Design Certificate course on sustainable systems by
Geoff Lawton
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