PCT

PCT can mean:

Geography

• Pacific Crest Trail, a hiking trail that runs along the west coast of the United States, from Mexico to Canada
• Princeton Airport (New Jersey) (IATA: PCT)

History

• Paleolithic Continuity Theory
• Post-colonial theory

Law

• Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international patent treaty

Science and technology

• Parrot Compiler Toolkit, an implementation of an Abstract syntax tree representation and compiler for Parrot virtual machine
• Patient care technician
• Percent, abbreviation
• Perceptual control theory, a psychological theory of purposeful behavior
• Polychlorinated terphenyl, an industrial chemical and environmental contaminant.
• Porphyria cutanea tarda, a form of porphyria
• Postcoital test, a test for infertility
• Post-coital tristesse
• Post cycle therapy, a method of stabilizing hormonal functions
• Private Communications Technology, an obsolete Internet security protocol
• Procalcitonin
• Processor-Controlled Test, a test and debug solution for assembled boards (PCBAs)
• Program control table, used by CICS
• Proton Computed Tomography, tomographic imaging with protons
• Programmable Communicating Thermostat
• Proximal convoluted tubule, part of the nephron of the kidney
• Placebo-controlled Trial (Placebo-controlled study)

Society, culture and sports

• Parti Communiste du Togo (in French)
• Parti Communiste Tunisien (in French)
• Parti Congolais du Travail (in French)
• P.C.T, Hip-Hop musicians
• Peace Corps Trainee
• Pennsylvania College of Technology
• Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission agency that maintains the Pennsylvania Turnpike
• NHS Primary Care Trust, part of the United Kingdom's National Health Service
• Save percentage, an ice hockey and box lacrosse statistic
• Personal carbon trading
• Presbyterian Church in Taiwan
• Production Car Trial - see Classic Trials
• Pressure Cycling Technology - System which uses alternating cycles of low and ultra-high pressure for sample prep in biotechnology.