PCP

PCP may refer to:

In medicine and pharmaceutics:

• Phencyclidine, a recreational drug known by a number of street names including angel dust, supergrass, killer weed, sherm, embalming fluid, and rocket fuel
• Primary care physician, a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients
• Primary care paramedic
• Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), (formerly known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia)
• Post-coital pill, a form of emergency contraception

In politics:

• Partido Comunista Paraguayo, Paraguayan Communist Party
• Partido Comunista del Peru, also known as Shining Path
• Partido Comunista Puertorriqueño, Puerto Rican Communist Party
• Partido Comunista Peruano, Peruvian Communist Party
• Partido Comunista Português, Portuguese Communist Party
• Partit Català Proletari, Proletarian Catalan Party

In science:

• Peptidyl carrier protein, protein involved in NRP organization
• Pentachlorophenol, timber preservative
• Post correspondence problem, an important problem in computability theory
• Priority ceiling protocol, a computer science concept
• Probabilistically checkable proof, 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:

• Pre-Charged Pneumatic, a type of air gun
• Primary Control Program, an earliest version of IBM OS/360 operating system
• phantom circuit protocol, in computer networking - a transport service for IP networks with guaranteed bandwidth
• Primary Connection Point, in telecommunications - a cabinet for telephone wires, esp. Britain

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 form of car finance common in the UK, where customers make monthly payments over a certain term, then have the option of making a final 'balloon' payment to keep the car, or handing it back to the finance company with no penalty