PRC (disambiguation)

PRC is an abbreviation for the People's Republic of China.

PRC may also refer to:

In politics

• Communist Refoundation Party, an Italian reformed communist party
• Regionalist Party of Cantabria, the second oldest political party in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Cantabria
• Popular Resistance Committees, various Palestinian militant organizations which operate in the Gaza Strip
• People's Redemption Council, a military regime that governed Liberia during the early 1980s

In education

• Prince Royal's College, a private school in Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Peterborough Regional College

In other organisations and groups

• Palestine Red Crescent Society, a humanitarian organization
• Pesticide Residues Committee, a committee within the UK government.
• Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent regulatory agency in the United States
• Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the larger Hollywood production conglomerates of Poverty Row of the late 30s-mid 40s
• Professional Regulation Commission, an agency of the government of the Republic of the Philippines
• PlayMakers Repertory Company, the Dramatic and performing arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In technology

• Volunteer computing or Public Resource Computing, a type of distributed computing
• Procfs, short for process file system:
• PRC (Palm OS), the file extension of executables for Palm OS, Garnet OS and Mobipocket databases
• PRC (file format), a way to store 3D data in a PDF file
• Primary Reference Clock, used for synchronization

In medicine

• plasma renin concentration
• Phase response curve showing biological responses to light and to exogenous melatonin in animals

In other areas

• Protestant Reformed Churches in America, a Protestant denomination of 27 churches and over 7,000 members
• Ernest A. Love Field (IATA code: PRC), a public airport near Prescott, Arizona
• Practical reserve capacity, a value of the spare capacity for traffic at a traffic signal junction
• Precast concrete, or precast reinforced concrete, a material used in prefabricated buildings
• PrC or Prestige character class in Dungeons & Dragons
• Project Runway Canada, Canadian version of Project Runway, a television show
• Photosynthetic reaction centre, the molecular unit responsible for absorbing light in photosynthesis
• Portable Radio, Communication, an example is the AN/PRC-77 Portable Transceiver

See also

• Permanent Resident Card (disambiguation)
• Presbyterian Reformed Church (disambiguation)