PCS
Appearance
PCS may refer to:
Medicine
- Picture communication symbols, drawings used to communicate with autistic people and in other alternative communication systems
- Post-concussion syndrome, a set of symptoms that a person may experience for weeks, months, or even years after a concussion
- Postcholecystectomy syndrome, the presence of abdominal symptoms after surgery to remove the gallbladder
- Precordial catch syndrome, a common cause of chest pain complaints in children and adolescents
Military
- Peace and conflict studies, an inter-disciplinary inquiry into war
- Permanent change of station, to be permanently moved to a new post in the U.S. armed forces
- Personal Clothing System, designation of British Army No.8 Combat Dress
- Patrol Craft Sweeper, a class of World War II U.S Navy vessels, including
Organizations
- Pacific Collegiate School, a grades 7-12 charter school in Santa Cruz, California
- Partito Comunista Sammarinese (Sammarinese Communist Party), a former political party in San Marino
- Personal Communication Sector, former name of Motorola Mobility as a division of Motorola
- PhillyCarShare, a non-profit organization providing car sharing services in the Philadelphia area
- Polish Council of State, supreme political body of Poland from 1947 to 1989
- Portland Center Stage, a theater company based in Portland, Oregon since 1988
- Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, a Canadian corporation that is the world's largest producer of potash
- Presbyterian Christian School, a private school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Professional Children's School, a not-for-profit, college preparatory school for working or aspiring child actors and dancers, based in New York City
- Public and Commercial Services Union, a trade union representing UK public sector workers
- Pueblo City Schools, the school district of Pueblo, Colorado
Science and technology
- Partitioning Communication System, a high-assurance communications security technology
- Patni Computer Systems, a provider of information technology services
- Periphere Computer Systeme, a German manufacturer of UNIX-based computers in the 1980s and 1990s
- Personal Communications Service, a set of wireless communications capabilities that allows some combination of terminal mobility, personal mobility, and service profile management. E.g. Sprint PCS mobile phone service.
- Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
- Physical Coding Sublayer, an Ethernet Layer 1 (PHY) sub-layer
- Plant Cell Structure
- Polar coordinate system, a 2D or 3D coordinate system, determined by an angle and a distance
- Power & Communication System, also called power/data grommets, convenience outlets for cables in furniture
- Process Control System
- Parsecs, units of measurement used in astronomy
- Profile connection space, an intermediary form for color-data used when performing conversions between color spaces
- Plastic-clad silica fiber, a type of optical fiber
Other uses
- Pacific Central Station, a railway station in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Photo City Sagamihara, awards for photography given annually by the Japanese town of Sagamihara
- Pinball Construction Set, a computer game by Bill Budge published by Electronic Arts
- Program Component Score, part of the ISU Judging System for figure skating competitions
- Preferential creditor status, also called preferred creditor