PCP

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PCP may refer to:

Science

Medicine

  • Pharmacy Council of Pakistan
  • 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
  • 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

Other

  • Lysosomal Pro-X carboxypeptidase, an enzyme
  • Parallel coordinates, a common way of visualizing high-dimensional geometry and analyzing multivariate data
  • Pentachlorophenol, an organochlorine compound used as a timber preservative herbicide, insecticide, fungicide and algaecide
  • Peptidyl carrier protein, related in structure to Acyl carrier proteins
  • Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein complex, a complex of protein and pigment molecules found in dinoflagellates
  • 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
  • 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

Other uses

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)
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