PCP

PCP may refer to:

In business:

• Previous corresponding period (Used when comparing sales over corresponding periods)
• Personnel Cost Planning, a SAP ERP cost projection tool (budgeting tool) that enables businesses to make comparisons and planned-vs.-actual cost analyses, providing management with a comprehensive cost picture

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:

• Post correspondence problem, an important problem in computability theory
• Parallel coordinates, a common way of visualizing high-dimensional geometry and analyzing 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, 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
• Lysosomal Pro-X carboxypeptidase, an enzyme

In technology:

• Performance Co-Pilot, an open-source performance monitoring system
• 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.
• Puppet Certified Professional, someone who has passed the certification exam, proving proficiency in using Puppet.

In theoretical computer science:

• Probabilistically checkable proof, a proof that can be checked by a randomized algorithm using bounded randomness and bounded number of proof bits.

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