PCP

PCP may refer to:

In medicine and pharmaceutics:

  • Phencyclidine, a recreational drug known by a number of street names including PCP, angel dust, embalming fluid, and rocket fuel
  • Primary care physician, a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients
  • Primary care paramedic
  • Pneumocystis pneumonia, a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus
  • Post-coital pill, a form of emergency contraception
  • Pharmacy Council of Pakistan

In politics:

  • Paraguayan Communist Party
  • Partido Comunista del Peru, also known as Shining Path
  • Personal Choice Party, Utah
  • Peruvian Communist Party
  • Portuguese Communist Party
  • Proletarian Catalan Party
  • Puerto Rican Communist Party

In science:

  • Parallel coordinate plot, a method for visualizing multivariate data
  • PCP theorem, a theorem in computational complexity theory
  • Pentachlorophenol, an organochlorine compound used as a timber preservative herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and algaecide
  • Priority ceiling protocol, a computer science concept
  • Probabilistically checkable proof (complexity), a notion in the theory of computational complexity
  • Put–call parity, in financial mathematics a relationship between the price of a call option and a put option

In technology:

  • Performance Co-Pilot, an open-source performance monitoring system
  • Post correspondence problem, an important problem in computability theory
  • Pre-charged pneumatic, a type of air gun
  • Priority Code Point, a three-bit priority field within an Ethernet frame header when using IEEE 802.1q tagged frames.

Miscellaneous:

  • "Faster/P.C.P.", a single by Manic Street Preachers, from their 1994 album The Holy Bible
  • Purple City Productions, a Harlem-based rap group
  • Personal contract purchase, a vehicle financing product
  • Principia Cybernetica Project, an organization and website devoted to evolutionary-cybernetic philosophy
  • Perfect Crime Party, a fictional manga in Bakuman