PPC
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PPC may refer to:
Computing
- Pay per click, a method of charging for advertising on the Internet
- PearPC, a PowerPC platform emulator
- PPCoin, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency
- Peripheral pin controller, a feature present in the StrongARM CPU family that controls IO ports
- Pocket PC, Microsoft's specification for handheld devices
- ZEOS PPC, an early MS-DOS 5.0-based palmtop PC by ZEOS
- PowerPC, a microprocessor architecture
- Protected procedure call, a messaging facility in computer operating systems
Business and economics
- Public Power Corporation S.A., an electric power company in Greece
- Production Possibility Curve, a graph that shows the different quantities of two goods that an economy could efficiently produce with limited productive resources
- Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, a publishing agency of the Presbyterian Church, US
- Pacific Publishing Company, Seattle
Engineering and construction
- Production Planning Control, or Ppc cycle
- Pollution Prevention and Control, the industrial permitting regime in the United Kingdom; see Landfills in the United Kingdom
- Powered parachute or paraplane, a type of ultralight aircraft
- Pretoria Portland Cement Company, a South African cement producer
- PPC worldwide, a U.S.-based manufacturer of connector technology for the telecommunications, broadcast and wireless industries
- Public Power Corporation of Greece (PPC S.A.), the biggest electric power company in Greece
- Partially premixed combustion, a modern combustion process intended to be used in internal combustion engines
Entertainment and sports
- 6mm PPC (Palmisano & Pindel Cartridge), a family of centerfire rifle cartridges for benchrest shooting sports
- Particle projection cannon, a fictional weapon in the BattleTech universe
- Peg Plus Cat, a TV series
- Ppc Racing, a defunct NASCAR team
- Police Pistol Combat, a type of target shooting competition
Politics
- Partido del Pueblo Costarricense, the Costa Rican People's Party
- Partido de los Pueblos Costeños, a regional political party in Nicaragua
- Partido Popular Cristiano (Peru) (Christian People's Party), a Peruvian political party
- Partit Popular de Catalunya, the Catalan branch of People's Party, Spain
- Peoples Planning Campaign (People's Plan Campaign), the Kerala experiment in decentralisation of powers to local governments
- Prospective parliamentary candidate, a role in politics in the United Kingdom
- Pirate Party of Canada
- Pirate Party of Chile
- Czech Pirate Party
Science
- 4-Phenyl-4-(1-piperidinyl)cyclohexanol, an organic chemical
- Pediatric Prehospital Care, an educational program offered by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians
- Polypropylene carbonate, a plastic
- Posterior parietal cortex, an association area involved in the integration of sensory information from multiple modalities
Other uses
- Petits Propos Culinaires, a journal of food studies and history
- Pakistan Penal Code
- Prior Park College, a Catholic private school in Bath, England
See also
- PPC-1 (Pipe Pacific Cable), an international communications link constructed by PIPE Networks