PCP

PCP may refer to:

Science

Medicine

• Pharmacy Council of Pakistan
• Pneumocystis pneumonia, a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii
• Post-coital pill, a form of emergency contraception
• Primary care paramedic, the entry-level of paramedic practice in Canada
• Primary care physician, a doctor who acts as first point of consultation for patients

Chemistry and biochemistry

• Phencyclidine, a hallucinogenic and dissociative recreational drug, also known as angel dust
  • 3-HO-PCP, a designer drug related to phencyclidine
  • 3-MeO-PCP, a designer drug related to phencyclidine
  • 4-MeO-PCP, a research chemical related to phencyclidine
• Pentachlorophenol, an organochlorine compound used as a timber preservative herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and algaecide
• Lysosomal Pro-X carboxypeptidase, an enzyme
• Peptidyl carrier protein, related in structure to acyl carrier proteins
• Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein complex, a complex of protein and pigment molecules found in dinoflagellates

Other

• Parallel coordinates plot, a common way of visualizing high-dimensional geometry and analyzing multivariate data
• Planar cell polarity, a mechanism in embryonic development
• Put–call parity, in financial mathematics, a relationship between the price of a call option and a put option

Computing

• Probabilistically checkable proof, a notion in the theory of computational complexity
  • PCP theorem, a related theorem
• Performance Co-Pilot, an open-source performance monitoring system
• Port Control Protocol, a computer networking protocol allowing hosts to create explicit port forwarding rules on default gateways
• Post correspondence problem, an important problem in computability theory
• Primary Control Program, an option in OS/360
• Principia Cybernetica Project, an organization and website devoted to evolutionary-cybernetic philosophy
• Priority ceiling protocol, a computer science concept
• Priority Code Point, a three-bit priority field within an Ethernet frame header when using IEEE 802.1q tagged frames

Politics

Communist parties

• Palestine Communist Party
• Paraguayan Communist Party
• Portuguese Communist Party
• Puerto Rican Communist Party
• Partido Comunista del Peru, several different left-oriented organizations in Peru
  • Shining Path (Partido Comunista del Perú)
  • Partido Comunista del Perú - Patria Roja (PCP-BR)
• Peruvian Communist Party

Other parties

• Personal Choice Party, a former minor party in Utah, United States
• Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, 1942-2003
• Proletarian Catalan Party (1934–1936), in Catalonia, Spain

Other uses

• PCP - Perfect Crime Party, part of the Bakuman franchise
• PCP Torpedo, 1998 EP by American grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed
• Person-centred planning, life-planning model
• Personal care products
• Personal contract purchase, a vehicle financing product
• Pre-charged pneumatic, a type of air gun
• Purple City Productions, a US rap group
• Proto-Central Pacific, a proto-language

See also

• "Faster/P.C.P.", a single by Manic Street Preachers, from their 1994 album The Holy Bible
• PCPA, para-chloro-phenylalanine or fenclonine (PCPA)
• pCPP, para-Chlorophenylpiperazine
• PGP (disambiguation)