PDC

PDC may refer to:

Chemistry

• Pyruvate decarboxylase, a homotetrameric enzyme that catalyses the decarboxylation of pyruvic acid to acetaldehyde and carbon dioxide
• Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, a complex of three enzymes that transform pyruvate into acetyl-CoA
• Pyridinium dichromate, a chromium-based oxidant used in organic chemistry

Computing

Telecommunications

• Pocket Dream Console, a small handheld game device created by Tomy and Conny in 2006
• Personal Digital Cellular, a 2G mobile phone standard developed and used exclusively in Japan

Multimedia

• Programme Delivery Control, a standard to control video recorders using hidden codes in the teletext service
• Plugin Delay Compensation, a technique for keeping the output of digital audio effects synchronized when each may introduce delay into the signal
• Practical Devices Corporation, manufacturer of high-end headphone amplifiers
• Primary Domain Controller, a server computer in a pre-Windows 2000 NT server Domain
• Professional Developers Conference, a Microsoft conference for software developers

Microprocessors/Microcontrollers

• Peripheral DMA controller, A feature of microcontrollers automating internal feeds for data streams

General Science

• Parking Distance Control, is a system used in (BMW) Cars to measure the distance between the car and obstacles
• Pulsed DC, the form of wave produced from a half-wave rectifier or a full-wave rectifier
• Pyroclastic density current, a common and devastating result of some volcanic eruptions

Politics and government

• Parti Démocrate-Chrétien Suisse, a political party in Switzerland
  • Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Argentina), a political party in Argentina
  • Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Bolivia), a political party in Bolivia
  • Partido Demócrata Cristiano (El Salvador), a political party in El Salvador
  • Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Chile, a political party in Chile
  • Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Paraguay), a political party in Paraguay
• Portland Development Commission, Portland, Oregon government agency

Linguistics

• PDC (language), a West Central German variety spoken by 150,000 to 250,000 people in North America
• The reconstructed Dené-Caucasian proto-language, the tentative sister of the Nostratic proto-language, and common ancestor of the Basque, North Caucasian, Burushaski, Sino-Tibetan, Yeniseian and Na-Dené languages

Organizations

• Pacific Disaster Center, an international organization
• Partisan Defense Committee, a legal defense organization
• Phi Delta Chi, an association formed to advance the science of pharmacy and allied interests
• Pittsburgh Dance Council, a presenting organization based in downtown Pittsburgh
• Professional Darts Corporation, a professional darts organization

Others

• Polycrystalline Diamond Cutter - a special cutting part of the PDC fixed cutter rock bit. [1]
• Practice Depth Charge, a small explosive device
• Prosper.com, a personal finance lending network