PCE may stand for:

Business and economics

Personal consumption expenditure The PCE price index (PePP), also referred to as the PCE deflator, PCE price deflator, or the Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures (IPD for PCE) by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and as the Chain-type Price Inde ...

, or private consumption expenditure *

Personal consumption expenditures price index The PCE price index (PePP), also referred to as the PCE deflator, PCE price deflator, or the Implicit Price Deflator for Personal Consumption Expenditures (IPD for PCE) by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and as the Chain-type Price Inde ...

, a measure of inflation

Chemistry and engineering

* PCE or

eticyclidine Eticyclidine (PCE, CI-400) is a dissociative anesthetic drug with hallucinogenic effects. It is similar in effects to phencyclidine but is slightly more potent. PCE was developed by Parke-Davis in the 1970s and evaluated for anesthetic potential ...

, an illegal drug related to Phencyclidine (PCP) *

Tetrachloroethylene Tetrachloroethylene, also known under the systematic name tetrachloroethene, or perchloroethylene, and many other names (and abbreviations such as "perc" or "PERC", and "PCE"), is a chlorocarbon with the formula Cl2C=CCl2 . It is a colorless li ...

(perchloroethylene), widely used in dry-cleaning *

Pro-opiomelanocortin converting enzyme Pro-opiomelanocortin converting enzyme (, ''prohormone converting enzyme'', ''pro-opiomelanocortin-converting enzyme'', ''proopiomelanocortin proteinase'', ''PCE'') is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction : Cleavage at ...

, an enzyme * Pyrometric cone equivalent, measuring heat in the firing of pottery * Power conversion efficiency, a near synonym for " Energy conversion efficiency" 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 The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics. It was the first console marketed in the fourth generation, commonly known as the 16-bit era, thoug ...

, 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 he ...

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

Eticyclidine Eticyclidine (PCE, CI-400) is a dissociative anesthetic drug with hallucinogenic effects. It is similar in effects to phencyclidine but is slightly more potent. PCE was developed by Parke-Davis in the 1970s and evaluated for anesthetic potential ...

, 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 acc ...

, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India *

Padmanava College of Engineering, Rourkela Padmanava College of Engineering (PCE), Rourkela was established in academic year 1999-2000 to impart degree courses in engineering under the ''Padmanva Educational Trust, Bhubaneswar''. The prime objective of the trust has been the promotion of ...

, 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, New Zealand government agency

Political parties

Spain

* PCE,

Communist Party of Spain The Communist Party of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is part of Unidas Podemos. It currently has two of its politicians serving a ...

or "Partido Comunista de España" * PCE(i),

Communist Party of Spain (International)(1975) The Communist Party of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a Marxism-Leninism, Marxist-Leninist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left (Spain), United Left coalition, which is part of Unidas Podemos. It currently ...

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) The Partido Comunista de España (Reconstituido) ( en, "Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted)", ''PCE(r)'') is a Spanish clandestine communist party that broke away from the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). The general secretary of the PCE(r) is ...

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 Communist Party of Ecuador (in Spanish: ''Partido Comunista del Ecuador'') is a communist party in Ecuador. It was formed in 1925 as the Socialist Party. The party publishes ''El Pueblo'', the general secretary is Winston Alarcón and the youth w ...

'', 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 *

PCE-842-class patrol craft The ''PCE-842''-class patrol craft were United States Navy patrol craft escorts designed during World War II that were intended for coastal and convoy escort. The design was derived from the as a substitute for the s that were used for anti-su ...

, U.S. Navy patrol craft escorts, many of which were transferred to the Philippine Navy *

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 {{disambiguation