PDC may refer to:

In science and technology

Chemistry, biology and medicine

* Phosducin, a human protein and gene in the retina * Pyridinium dichromate (Cornforth reagent), a chromium-based oxidant * Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, an enzyme complex *

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

* Peripheral DMA controller * Personal decompression computer, for scuba divers *

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 * Primary

Domain Controller A domain controller (DC) is a Server (computing), server that responds to security authentication requests within a computer network domain. It is a Network (computing), network server that is responsible for allowing Host (network), host access to ...

Professional Developers Conference Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was a series of conferences for software developers; the conference was held infrequently to coincide with beta releases of the Microsoft Windows, Windows operating system, and showcased topic ...

, by Microsoft * Programme Delivery Control, a teletext standard

Other uses in science and technology

* Power distribution center, electrical equipment * Pulsed DC, type of electric current *

Pyroclastic density current A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot volcanic gas, gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average ...

or pyroclastic flow of a volcano

Politics and government

* Centrist Democratic Party (Rwanda) *

Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (, CVP), also called the Christian Democratic Party (, PDC), Democratic People's Party (, PPD) and Swiss Christian Democratic Party (, PCD), was a Christian democracy, Christian democratic Li ...

* Partido Demócrata Cristiano (disambiguation), several parties in Central & South America * Christian Democratic Party (Brazil) (''Partido Democrata Cristão'') *

Catalan European Democratic Party The Catalan European Democratic Party (, PDeCAT, sometimes stylized as PDECat), initially branded as the Catalan Democratic Party (, PDC), was a liberal political party in Spain that supported Catalan independence. The party was founded in Bar ...

* Portland Development Commission, later Prosper Portland, Oregon, US *

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 ...

, US * Former

Constitutional Democratic Party The Constitutional Democratic Party (, K-D), also called Constitutional Democrats and formally the Party of People's Freedom (), was a political party in the Russian Empire that promoted Western constitutional monarchy—among other policies� ...

, Italy * Parlementair Documentatie Centrum (Parliamentary Documentation Centre), (Netherlands), an institute that documents Dutch parliamentary history

Organizations

* PDC (gang), later rap group, London, UK *

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 * Partisan Defense Committee, a Trotskyist legal defense organization *

Phi Delta Chi Phi Delta Chi ( or Phi Dex) is a coed professional fraternity founded in 1883, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was formed to advance the science of pharmacy and its allied interests and to foster and promote a fraternal s ...

, pharmaceutical fraternity at the University of Michigan *

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 journa ...

, a publisher *

Producers Distributing Corporation Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC) was a short-lived Hollywood film distribution company, organized in 1924 and dissolved in 1927. In its brief heyday, film director Cecil B. DeMille was its primary talent and owner of its Culver City� ...

, 1920s US film company *

Professional Darts Corporation The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation in the United Kingdom, established in 1992 when a group of leading players split from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form what was initially called the Wor ...

, operates darts competitions * Publications Distribution Cooperative

Other uses

Pennsylvania Dutch language Pennsylvania Dutch (, or ) or Pennsylvania German is a Variety (linguistics), variety of Palatine German dialects, Palatine German spoken by the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other related groups in the U ...

(ISO 639-3 language code) * Pocket Dream Console, a game console * Permaculture Design Certificate course on sustainable systems by Geoff Lawton * Playa del Carmen, a resort city in southeastern Mexico {{disambiguation