PSC may refer to:

Business

People with Significant Control People with Significant Control (PSC) is a business and corporate term used in the United Kingdom to identify key people within a company. The term was introduced on 6 April 2016 as part of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. ...

, in United Kingdom company law * Personal service corporation, in United States tax law * Protein Sciences Corporation, an American biotech company * Public Service Commission (disambiguation), regulatory bodies, with competence varying by jurisdiction *

Production sharing contract Production sharing agreements (PSAs) or production sharing contracts (PSCs) are a common type of contract signed between a government and a resource extraction company (or group of companies) concerning how much of the resource (usually oil) extrac ...

, a type of contract used in the

resource extraction Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications. This includes the sources of valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest, and cultural value. ...

industry

Government

Public Safety Canada Public Safety Canada (PS; , SP), legally incorporated as the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (PSEPC), is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for (most) matters of public safety, emergency management, nat ...

Pacific Salmon Commission The Pacific Salmon Commission is a regulatory body run jointly by the Canadian and United States governments. Its mandate is to protect stocks of the five species of Pacific salmon. Its precursor was the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Com ...

Public Service of Canada The Public Service of Canada (known as the Civil Service of Canada prior to 1967) is the civilian workforce of the Government of Canada's departments, agencies, and other public bodies. While the Government of Canada has employed civil servants ...

Education

Parkwood Secondary College Parkwood Secondary College (PSC) was a co-educational public secondary school located in the Melbourne, Victoria, Australia suburb of Ringwood North. The school was founded in 1979 as ''Parkwood High School'', and closed at the end of the 2012 s ...

, Ringwood North, Victoria, Australia *

Parkdale Secondary College Parkdale Secondary College is a public, co-educational secondary school located on Warren Road in the Melbourne suburb of Mordialloc, Victoria. The college has completed the first stage and the second stage of a major upgrade which includes an ...

, Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia *

Peter Symonds College Peter Symonds College is a sixth form college in Winchester, Hampshire, England. The college is recognised as the largest sixth form in England and is noted for the high number of its students who progress to Oxbridge. Peter Symonds College tra ...

, Winchester, UK *

Pensacola State College Pensacola State College (PSC) is a public college in Pensacola, Florida. It is part of the Florida College System. Originally established as Pensacola Junior College in 1948, the college underwent a name change in July 2010 to reflect its expand ...

, Pensacola, Florida *

Peru State College Peru State College (Peru) is a public college in Peru, Nebraska, United States. It was founded by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1865, making it the first and oldest institution of higher education in Nebraska. The college is org ...

, Peru, Nebraska * Philippine Science Consortium, an organization of tertiary schools in the Philippines *

Photography Studies College Photography Studies College, commonly abbreviated to PSC, is a privately owned independent tertiary photography college established in 1973, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. History 1973 founding Photography Studies College was first ...

, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia *

Polk State College Polk State College (PSC) is a public college based in Winter Haven, Florida, United States, and is part of the Florida College System. Established in 1964, PSC operates its main campuses in Winter Haven and Lakeland, with additional education c ...

, Polk County, Florida *

Putonghua Proficiency Test The Putonghua Proficiency Test or Putonghua Shuiping Ceshi (PSC) is an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese (Mandarin) intended for native speakers of Chinese languages. The test was developed in October 1994 by the Ministry of Educa ...

(), Mandarin proficiency test in Mainland China

Military

psc (military) psc is a post-nominal for ''Post Staff College'' (formally ''Passed Staff College'') in the Commonwealth militaries of Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. It indicates that an officer has undertaken the sta ...

, "Principal Staff Course" (British Army, and Air Force), or "Passed Staff Course" (Royal Navy) *

Polar Security Cutter program The Polar Security Cutter Program is a program to recapitalize the United States Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard's aging fleet of icebreakers, currently consisting of the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), USCGC ''Polar Star'' an ...

, a new ship class under deve for the United States Coast Guard * Private security contractor

Places

Palm Springs, California Palm Springs (Cahuilla language, Cahuilla: ''Séc-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley. The city covers approximately , making it the largest city in Rivers ...

, USA *

Pointe-Saint-Charles Pointe-Saint-Charles (; also known in English as Point Saint Charles, and locally as The Point, or "PSC") is a neighbourhood in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Historically a working-class area, the creation o ...

, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Politics

Centre démocrate humaniste Humanist Democratic Centre (, CDH) was a Christian democratic and centrist French-speaking political party in Belgium. The party originated in the split in 1972 of the unitary Christian Social Party (PSC-CVP) which had been the country's governi ...

, formerly known as the Christian Social Party (PSC) *

Christian Social Party (Belgium, defunct) The Christian Social Party (, ,; , , ; generally abbreviated to PSC–CVP) was a major centre-right political parties in Belgium, political party in Belgium which existed from 1945 until 1968. It is sometimes referred to as the unitary Christian S ...

, a former Belgian party, now called Les Engagés *

Christian Social Party (Belgium) The Christian Social Party (, , CSP) is a Christian democratic political party operating in the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Its president is Luc Frank. In the 2004 European Parliament election, standing as ''Christlich-Soziale Partei - ...

, a political party in the German-speaking community of Belgium *

Palestine Solidarity Campaign The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is an activist organisation in England and Wales. It was founded in the UK in 1982 and incorporated in 2004 as Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd. In 2023, ''The Guardian'' described it as "Europe’s ...

, in the United Kingdom * ''

Partido Social Conservador The Social Conservative Party (Spanish: ''Partido Social Conservador'' - PSC) is a right-wing conservative Nicaraguan political party founded by its leader Fernando Agüero in 1988. The PSC received legal status in 1989 and participated in the ...

'', a political party in Nicaragua * ''Partido Social Cristiano'' (disambiguation), name of two political parties, one in Ecuador and the other in Nicaragua * ''

Partido Socialista de Chile The Socialist Party of Chile (, or PS) is a centre-left to left-wing political party founded in 1933. Its historic leader was President of Chile Salvador Allende, who was deposed in a coup d'état by General Augusto Pinochet in 1973. The military ...

'', a Chilean party * ''

Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (, PSC–PSOE) is a Social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Catalonia, political party in Catalonia, Spain, resulting from the merger of three parties: the Socialist Party of Catalonia� ...

'', or Socialists' Party of Catalonia, a Catalan party *

Peace and Security Council The Peace and Security Council (PSC) is the organ of the African Union in charge of enforcing union decisions. It is patterned somewhat after the United Nations Security Council. The PSC is also the main pillar of the African Peace and Security ...

, of the African Union *

Political and Security Committee The Political and Security Committee (PSC; sometimes referred to by its French ''COPS'' acronym derived from ''Comité politique et de sécurité'') is a permanent body within the European Union dealing with Common Foreign and Security Policy is ...

, a permanent body of the European Union *

Social Christian Party (Brazil) The Social Christian Party (, PSC) was a Christian-conservative political party in Brazil. In the 2018 election, the party elected 2 Governors, 1 Senator, 9 Federal Deputies and 30 State Deputies. In 2022, it announced plans to merge with Pod ...

(''Partido Social Cristão''), a party in Brazil *

Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), officially the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is a committee consisting of the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) an ...

* Proportionality for Solid Coalitions, a criterion for ranked PR methods

Science and medicine

Pacific Science Center Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is a nonprofit science education organization in Seattle, Washington, United States. Its main science museum is on the ground of the Seattle Center near Downtown Seattle with auxiliary facilities in Bellevue, Washi ...

, a science museum in Seattle, Washington *

Pancreatic stellate cell Pancreatic stellate cells (PaSCs) are classified as myofibroblast-like cells that are located in exocrine regions of the pancreas. PaSCs are mediated by paracrine and autocrine stimuli and share similarities with the hepatic stellate cell. Pancrea ...

Pediatric Symptom Checklist The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a 35-item parent-report questionnaire designed to identify children with difficulties in psychosocial functioning. Its primary purpose is to alert pediatricians at an early point about which children wou ...

, a psychological assessment tool *

Phylogenetic species concept A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of classification and ...

Pisces (constellation) Pisces is a constellation of the zodiac. Its vast bulk – and main asterism viewed in most European cultures per Greco-Roman antiquity as a distant pair of fishes connected by one cord each that join at an apex – are in the Northern ...

, a zodialcal constellation *

Pluripotent stem cell Cell potency is a cell's ability to differentiate into other cell types. The more cell types a cell can differentiate into, the greater its potency. Potency is also described as the gene activation potential within a cell, which like a continuum, ...

Polar stratospheric cloud A polar stratospheric cloud (PSC) is a cloud that forms in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes from . They are best observed during civil twilight, when the Sun is between 1° and 6° below the horizon, as well as in winter and in more ...

* Postsynaptic current *

Premature stop codon In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a ''nonsense codon'', or a premature stop codon in the transcribed mRNA, and leads to a truncated, incomplete, and possibly nonfunctional protein product. No ...

, a type of DNA mutation *

Primary sclerosing cholangitis Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a long-term progressive disease of the liver and gallbladder characterized by inflammation and scarring of the bile ducts, which normally allow bile to drain from the gallbladder. Affected individuals may ...

, a liver disease

Sports

* Partille Sport Club, Swedish field- and indoor hockey team *

Philippine Sports Commission The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC; ) is an agency of the Philippine government that tackles matters concerning sports in the country. The sports agency is independent from the Philippine Olympic Committee, a privately-ran organization that e ...

Porsche Supercup The Porsche Supercup (officially known as Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, known as Porsche Michelin Supercup prior to 2007 and often abbreviated as PSC) is an international One-design racing, one-make production stock car racing series supporting the ...

, one-make production GT3-based stock car racing series * Professional

soccer club In association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as a ...

Technology

Palestinian Satellite Channel Palestine Satellite Channel, widely and formally known as Palestine TV or Palestinian Authority TV and its companion radio station, Voice of Palestine (launched 1995), are free-to-air (FTA) general entertainment channels in Arabic. The satellit ...

, TV channel * Permanent split capacitor, a type of AC motor *

Personal supercomputer Personal may refer to: Aspects of persons' respective individualities * Privacy * Personality * Personal, personal advertisement, variety of classified advertisement used to find romance or friendship Companies * Personal, Inc., a Washington, ...

, a high-performance computer system *

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a high performance computing and networking center founded in 1986 and one of the original five NSF Supercomputing Centers.

, National Science Foundation funded Supercomputer center *

PlayStation Classic The PlayStation Classic is a dedicated video game console by Sony Interactive Entertainment that emulates games originally released on its 1994 PlayStation console. It was announced in September 2018 at the Tokyo Game Show, and released on Dec ...

, a game console by Sony *

Polymer solar cell An organic solar cell (OSC) or plastic solar cell is a type of photovoltaic that uses organic electronics, a branch of electronics that deals with conductive organic polymers or small organic molecules, for light absorption and charge transport t ...

* Portable Single Crew (also Portable Single Camera), another way of referring to a

single-camera setup In filmmaking, television production and video production, the single-camera setup or single-camera mode of production (also known as portable single crew, portable single camera or single-cam) is a method in which all of the various shots and c ...

Prestressed concrete Prestressed concrete is a form of concrete used in construction. It is substantially prestressed (Compression (physics), compressed) during production, in a manner that strengthens it against tensile forces which will exist when in service. Post-t ...

* Printer-Scanner-Copier, a term by Hewlett-Packard

Transport

* Pan-Atlantic Steamship Company *

Port State Control Port state control (PSC) is an inspection regime for countries to inspect foreign-registered ships in port other than those of the flag state and take action against ships that are not in compliance. Inspectors for PSC are called PSC officers ( ...

Prescot railway station Prescot railway station serves the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is situated on the electrified Liverpool to Wigan Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains. It was opened in 1871 by the London a ...

, England; National Rail station code PSC *

Tri-Cities Airport (Washington) Tri-Cities Airport (originally Pasco Airport) is a public airport in Pasco, Washington, United States. It is northwest of downtown Pasco and serves the Tri-Cities metropolitan area in southeast Washington. The airport is the third-largest co ...

, Pasco, Washington (IATA and FAA LID code : PSC)

Other

* ''PSC'' (musical group) or ''Pimp $quad Click'', an American hip hop group *

Power supply A power supply is an electrical device that supplies electric power to an electrical load. The main purpose of a power supply is to convert electric current from a source to the correct voltage, electric current, current, and frequency to power ...

cabinet, a box for electric current delivering devices * President of the Supreme Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) - see pertinent subsections under

Judge A judge is a person who wiktionary:preside, presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a judicial panel. In an adversarial system, the judge hears all the witnesses and any other Evidence (law), evidence presented by the barris ...

* PSC, Integrated Science Teacher