PCP may refer to:

Science

Medicine

Pharmacy Council of Pakistan The Pharmacy Council of Pakistan (); acronym PCP) is a professional body for accreditation of pharmacy education and regulation of pharmacy profession in Pakistan. It was established under ''Pharmacy Act, 1967'' to protect, promote and mainta ...

* ''Pneumocystis'' pneumonia, a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus ''Pneumocystis jirovecii'' * Post-coital pill, a form of emergency contraception * Primary care paramedic, the entry-level of paramedic practice in Canada *

Primary care physician A primary care physician (PCP) is a physician 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. The term ...

, a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients

Chemistry and biochemistry

Phencyclidine Phencyclidine or phenylcyclohexyl piperidine (PCP), also known in its use as a street drug as angel dust among other names, is a dissociative anesthetic mainly used recreationally for its significant mind-altering effects. PCP may cause hall ...

, a hallucinogenic and dissociative recreational drug, also known as angel dust **

3-HO-PCP 3-Hydroxyphencyclidine (3-HO-PCP) is a dissociative of the arylcyclohexylamine class related to phencyclidine (PCP) that has been sold online as a designer drug. Pharmacology 3-HO-PCP acts as a high-affinity uncompetitive antagonist of the NM ...

, a designer drug related to phencyclidine **

3-MeO-PCP 3-Methoxyphencyclidine (3-MeO-PCP) is a dissociative hallucinogen of the arylcyclohexylamine class related to phencyclidine (PCP) which has been sold online as a designer drug. It has been used across Europe and the United States. In some cases ...

, a designer drug related to phencyclidine **

4-MeO-PCP 4-Methoxyphencyclidine (methoxydine, 4-MeO-PCP) is a dissociative anesthetic drug that has been sold online as a research chemical. The synthesis of 4-MeO-PCP was first reported in 1965 by the Parke-Davis medicinal chemist Victor Maddox. A 1999 r ...

, a research chemical related to phencyclidine *

Pentachlorophenol Pentachlorophenol (PCP) is an organochlorine compound used as a pesticide and a disinfectant. First produced in the 1930s, it is marketed under many trade names. It can be found as pure PCP, or as the sodium salt of PCP, the latter of which disso ...

, an organochlorine compound used as a timber preservative herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and algaecide * Lysosomal Pro-X carboxypeptidase, an enzyme *Peptidyl carrier protein, related in structure to

acyl carrier protein The acyl carrier protein (ACP) is a cofactor of both fatty acid and polyketide biosynthesis machinery. It is one of the most abundant proteins in cells of ''E. coli.'' In both cases, the growing chain is bound to the ACP via a thioester derived fr ...

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Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein complex The peridinin-chlorophyll-protein complex (PCP or PerCP) is a soluble molecular complex consisting of the peridinin-chlorophyll a-protein bound to peridinin, chlorophyll, and lipids. The peridinin molecules absorb light in the blue-green wavelengt ...

, a complex of protein and pigment molecules found in dinoflagellates

Other

Parallel coordinates Parallel Coordinates plots are a common method of visualizing high-dimensional datasets to analyze multivariate data having multiple variables, or attributes. To plot, or visualize, a set of points in ''n''-dimensional space, ''n'' parallel l ...

, a common way of visualizing high-dimensional geometry and analyzing multivariate data *

Planar cell polarity Planar cell polarity (PCP) is the protein-mediated Cell signaling, signaling that coordinates the orientation of Cell (biology), cells in a layer of Epithelium, epithelial tissue. In vertebrates, examples of mature PCP oriented tissue are the stere ...

, a mechanism in embryonic development *

Put–call parity In financial mathematics, the put–call parity defines a relationship between the price of a European call option and European put option, both with the identical strike price and expiry, namely that a portfolio of a long call option and a shor ...

, in financial mathematics, a relationship between the price of a call option and a put option

Computing

Probabilistically checkable proof In computational complexity theory, a probabilistically checkable proof (PCP) is a type of proof that can be checked by a randomized algorithm using a bounded amount of randomness and reading a bounded number of bits of the proof. The algorithm is ...

, a notion in the theory of computational complexity **

PCP theorem In computational complexity theory, the PCP theorem (also known as the PCP characterization theorem) states that every decision problem in the NP complexity class has probabilistically checkable proofs ( proofs that can be checked by a randomiz ...

, a related theorem * Performance Co-Pilot, an open-source performance monitoring system *

Port Control Protocol Port Control Protocol (PCP) is a computer networking protocol that allows hosts on IPv4 or IPv6 networks to control how the incoming IPv4 or IPv6 packets are translated and forwarded by an upstream router that performs network address translat ...

, a computer networking protocol allowing hosts to create explicit port forwarding rules on default gateways *

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 In computability theory (computer science), computability theory, the halting problem ...

, an important problem in computability theory * Primary Control Program, an option in OS/360 *

Principia Cybernetica Principia Cybernetica is an international cooperation of scientists in the field of cybernetics and systems science, especially known for their website, Principia Cybernetica. They have dedicated their organization to what they call "a computer-su ...

Project, an organization and website devoted to evolutionary-cybernetic philosophy *

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. In this protocol each resource is assigned ...

, a computer science concept * Priority Code Point, a three-bit priority field within an Ethernet frame header when using IEEE 802.1q tagged frames

Politics

Communist parties

Palestine Communist Party The Palestine Communist Party (, ''Palestinische Komunistische Partei'', abbreviated PKP; ) was a political party in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine formed in 1923 through the merger of the Palestinian Communist Party (192 ...

* Paraguayan Communist Party *

Portuguese Communist Party The Portuguese Communist Party (, , PCP) is a Communism, communist and Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist List of political parties in Portugal, political party in Portugal. It is one of the strongest List of communist parties, communist par ...

* Puerto Rican Communist Party * Partido Comunista del Peru, several different left-oriented organizations in Peru **

Shining Path The Shining Path (, SL), self-named the Communist Party of Peru (, abbr. PCP), is a far-left political party and guerrilla group in Peru, following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought. Academics often refer to the group as the ...

() ** Partido Comunista del Perú - Patria Roja () *

Peruvian Communist Party The Peruvian Communist Party (; PCP) is a communist party in Peru that was founded as the Peruvian Socialist Party (, PSP) in 1928 by a group led by José Carlos Mariátegui until its name change in 1930. In contemporary Peruvian politics, it is ...

Other parties

* Personal Choice Party, a former minor party in Utah, United States * Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1942-2003 * Proletarian Catalan Party (1934–1936), in Catalonia, Spain

Other uses

* ''PCP - Perfect Crime Party'', part of the ''Bakuman'' franchise * '' PCP Torpedo'', 1998 EP by American grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed *

Person-centred planning Person-centred planning (PCP) is a set of approaches designed to assist an individual to plan their life and supports. It is most often used for life planning with people with learning and developmental disabilities, though recently it has been a ...

, life-planning model *

Personal care product Personal care products are consumer products which are applied on various external parts of the body such as skin, hair, nails, lips, external genital and anal areas, as well as teeth and mucous membrane of the oral cavity, in order to make them ...

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Personal contract purchase Personal contract purchase (PCP), often referred to as a personal contract plan, is a form of hire purchase vehicle finance for individual purchasers, similar to both personal contract hire and a traditional hire purchase (buying on installments) ...

, a vehicle financing product * Pre-charged pneumatic, a type of air gun *

Purple City Productions Purple City Productions is a Harlem-based rap crew. The original members include Shiest Bub, Agallah, Antonio "Un Kasa" Wilder & E-Norm. In more recent years the roster has extended to include artists such as A-Mafia, Agallah, Ben Bostaph, D ...

, a US rap group * Proto-Central Pacific, a proto-language