PDC may refer to:
In science and technology
[edit]Chemistry, biology and medicine
[edit]- 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
Computing
[edit]- Peripheral DMA controller
- Personal decompression computer, for scuba divers
- Personal Digital Cellular, a Japanese 2G mobile phone standard
- Primary Domain Controller
- Professional Developers Conference, by Microsoft
- Programme Delivery Control, a teletext standard
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Power distribution center, electrical equipment
- Pulsed DC, type of electric current
- Pyroclastic density current or pyroclastic flow of a volcano
Politics and government
[edit]- Centrist Democratic Party (Rwanda)
- Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
- Partido Demócrata Cristiano (disambiguation), several parties in Central & South America
- Christian Democratic Party (Brazil) (Partido Democrata Cristão)
- Catalan European Democratic Party
- Portland Development Commission, later Prosper Portland, Oregon, US
- Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, US
- Former Constitutional Democratic Party, Italy
- Parlementair Documentatie Centrum (Parliamentary Documentation Centre), (Netherlands), an institute that documents Dutch parliamentary history
Organizations
[edit]- PDC (gang), later rap group, London, UK
- Pacific Disaster Center, disaster preparedness institute based in Hawaii
- Partisan Defense Committee, a Trotskyist legal defense organization
- Phi Delta Chi, pharmaceutical fraternity at the University of Michigan
- Philosophy Documentation Center, a publisher
- Producers Distributing Corporation, 1920s US film company
- Professional Darts Corporation, operates darts competitions
- Publications Distribution Cooperative
Other uses
[edit]- Pennsylvania Dutch language (ISO 639-3 language code)
- Pocket Dream Console, a game console
- Permaculture Design Certificate course on sustainable systems by Geoff Lawton