Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PC

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Definitions of PC

1. Abbreviation of piece.
2. Initialism of partially continuous.
3. Initialism of politically correct.
4. Initialism of pro-choice.
5. Initialism of Progressive Conservative.
6. Initialism of personal computer.
7. Initialism of parsec.
8. Initialism of photocopy.
9. (medicine) Initialism of presenting complaint.
10. (gaming) Initialism of player character.
11. (law enforcement) Initialism of police constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
12. Initialism of political correctness.
13. (organic chemistry) Initialism of polycarbonate.
14. (anatomy) Initialism of posterior commissure.
15. Initialism of privy council.
16. Initialism of privy councillor. and postnominal.
17. Initialism of press conference.
18. (US) Initialism of probable cause.
19. (UK, police) Initialism of previous conviction.
20. Initialism of Probate Court.
21. (cinema) Initialism of Production Code.
22. Initialism of Professional Corporation.
23. (computing) Initialism of program counter.
24. Initialism of progressive contextualization.
25. (Canadian politics, dated) Initialism of Progressive Conservative.
26. (Canadian politics, by extension) A member of the Conservative Party of Canada. [since 2003]
27. Initialism of protective custody.
28. Initialism of private chat.
29. Initialism of patrol craft.
30. (anatomy) Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
31. (bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)
32. (gambling) Abbreviation of percentage.
33. (organic compound) Abbreviation of propylene carbonate.
34. Initialism of personnel carrier.
35. Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
36. Initialism of Penn Central.
37. (US, navy) Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
38. Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
39. (UK politics) Initialism of w:Plaid Cymru.
40. (US) Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
41. (Canada, politics) Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
42. (Canada, politics, dated) Initialism of Progressive Conservative Party.
43. (sometimes with up) To make politically correct.
44. Abbreviation of postcard.
45. Abbreviation of percent.

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Examples of Using PC in a Sentence

• Originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC workstation in 1986, AIX has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series and later Power and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.
• It was first released in December 1982 for the CP/M and IBM PC platforms as a desktop app running on microcomputers with internal graphics controllers.
• The BIOS firmware was originally proprietary to the IBM PC; it was reverse engineered by some companies (such as Phoenix Technologies) looking to create compatible systems.
• Video games are typically categorized according to their hardware platform, which traditionally includes arcade video games, console games, and computer (PC) games; the latter also encompasses LAN games, online games, and browser games.
• The game was originally developed for MS-DOS running on a PC, and it has undergone numerous revisions for various platforms.
• Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the second company after Columbia Data Products to legally reverse engineer the BIOS of the IBM Personal Computer.
• Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and OS/2.
• The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced "eee-suh") is a bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers.
• 0, distributed by IBM, for being buggy and hard to use; PC Magazine told the company as early as December 1981 that subscribers "wish IBM had provided better word processing".
• File viewers allow the user to open and view content on a device, such as a Personal Computer (PC) or a mobile phone.
• The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8088-based IBM PC, including the IBM PC/XT as well as IBM PC compatibles.
• The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard.
• However, during the more than 30 years of PC architecture being frequently updated, many keyboard layout variations have been developed.
• id Software made important technological developments in video game technologies for the PC (running MS-DOS and Windows), including work done for the Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake franchises at the time.
• It was named after the amateur radio callsign of Phil Karn, who first wrote the software for a CP/M system and then ported it to DOS on the IBM PC.
• It was the first killer application of the IBM PC, was hugely popular in the 1980s, and significantly contributed to the success of IBM PC-compatibles in the business market.
• Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1990), macOS (2001), Web browsers (2010), iOS (2014) and Android (2015).
• MultiMate was a word processor developed by Multimate International for IBM PC MS-DOS computers in the early 1980s.
• Multiplan was released first for computers running CP/M; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64 and 128, TI-99/4A (on four 6K GROMs and a single 8K ROM), Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 4, TRS-80 Model 100 (on ROM), Apple II, AT&T UNIX PC, and Burroughs B20 series.
• government accused Microsoft of illegally monopolizing the web browser market for Windows, primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers (OEMs) and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java.
• A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game.
• It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as BMP, JPEG, and PNG.
• Released in December 1994, it is based on the NEC V810 CPU and CD-ROM, and was intended as the successor to the PC Engine (known overseas as the TurboGrafx-16).
• It formally defines signals connecting between a DTE (data terminal equipment) such as a computer terminal or PC, and a DCE (data circuit-terminating equipment or data communication equipment), such as a modem.
• The method is available as a computer program for Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, (Pocket PC), Palm OS (PalmPilot), etc.

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