Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- abbr. Past Commander
- abbr. personal computer
- abbr. police constable
- abbr. politically correct
- abbr. post commander
- abbr. Privy Council
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Symbol for the petacoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 1015 coulombs.
- adj. Initialism of partially continuous.
- adj. Initialism of politically correct.
- adj. Initialism of pro-choice.
- adj. Initialism of Progressive Conservative.
- n. Initialism of parsec.
- n. Initialism of personal computer.
- n. Initialism of photocopy.
- n. Initialism of player character.
- n. Initialism of police constable.
- n. Initialism of political correctness.
- n. Initialism of polycarbonate.
- n. Initialism of posterior commissure.
- n. Initialism of privy council.
- n. Initialism of privy councillor.
- n. Initialism of probable cause.
- n. Initialism of Probate Court.
- n. Initialism of production code.
- n. Initialism of Professional Corporation.
- n. Initialism of program counter.
- n. Initialism of progressive contextualization.
- n. Initialism of Progressive Conservative.
- n. Initialism of protective custody.
- n. Initialism of private chat.
- n. Initialism of pubococcygeus muscle.
- proper n. Initialism of Proto-Celtic.
- proper n. Initialism of Penn Central.
- proper n. Initialism of Coastal Patrol.
- proper n. Initialism of Phrozen Crew.
- proper n. Initialism of Plaid Cymru.
- proper n. Initialism of Presbyterian Church.
- proper n. Initialism of Progressive Canadian Party.
- proper n. Initialism of Progressive Conservative Party.
- v. To make politically correct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A personal computer; a computer{2} designed for use by one person at a time; -- contrasted with shared-time computers such as mainframes and minicomputers, which may be accessed by multiple users each operating from a different input device (in the 1990's, usually a terminal). A personal computer typically uses a microprocessor for its CPU.
- n. Acronym for politically correct.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An abbreviation of piece, in the dry-goods trade.
- n. An abbreviation of Past Chief Patriarch.
- n. An abbreviation of Principal Clerk of Session.
- n. An abbreviation of pound-centigrade-unit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
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Examples
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But I prefer the term PC in a more generic "personal computer" sense.
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Apple often means "Windows personal computer" when it uses the term "PC," as evidenced in the Mac vs.
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Granted, I might be using the term "PC" differently from the main proponent of the "post-PC" idea, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who eagerly trotted the phrase out over and over during the iPad 2 launch last week.
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The term PC has become the standard term for any non-Mac personal computer.
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Michael Berube points out that the term PC is doing the work that the term 'liberal' did for Bush in 1988 ": it's trying to dismiss large potential constituencies for cultural activism …"
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As well as the obvious physical locations (post-it notes, address books), keeping your passwords in a file called ‘passwords’ on your PC is a dumb idea, especially given the speed of search features these days.
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The only down-side to a PC is the screens aren't necessarily as big and its still not standard (and a bit dorky) to have a controller hooked up to one.
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The problem with developing for the PC is the cost to gain ratio is not kind to certain genres.
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I have a Mac and the only difference between it and my PC is the processor and motherboard.
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We played what we called PC, or percentage baseball.
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