PDC

PDC may refer to:

In science and technology

Chemistry, biology and medicine

• Phosducin, a human protein and gene in the retina
• Pyridinium dichromate (Cornforth reagent), a chromium-based oxidant
• Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, an enzyme complex
• Plasmacytoid dendritic cell

Computing

• Peripheral DMA controller
• Personal decompression computer, for scuba divers
• Personal Digital Cellular, a Japanese 2G mobile phone standard
• Primary Domain Controller
• Professional Developers Conference, by Microsoft
• Programme Delivery Control, a teletext standard

Other uses in science and technology

• Power distribution center, electrical equipment
• Pulsed DC, type of electric current
• Pyroclastic density current or pyroclastic flow of a volcano

Politics and government

• Centrist Democratic Party (Rwanda)
• Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
• Partido Demócrata Cristiano (disambiguation), several parties in Central & South America
• Christian Democratic Party (Brazil) (Partido Democrata Cristão)
• Catalan European Democratic Party
• Portland Development Commission, later Prosper Portland, Oregon, US
• Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, US
• Former Constitutional Democratic Party, Italy
• Parlementair Documentatie Centrum (Parliamentary Documentation Centre), (Netherlands), an institute that documents Dutch parliamentary history

Organizations

• PDC (gang), later rap group, London, UK
• Pacific Disaster Center, disaster preparedness institute based in Hawaii
• Partisan Defense Committee, a Trotskyist legal defense organization
• Phi Delta Chi, pharmaceutical fraternity at the University of Michigan
• Philosophy Documentation Center, a publisher
• Producers Distributing Corporation, 1920s US film company
• Professional Darts Corporation, operates darts competitions
• Publications Distribution Cooperative

Other uses

• Pennsylvania Dutch language (ISO 639-3 language code)
• Pocket Dream Console, a game console
• Permaculture Design Certificate course on sustainable systems by Geoff Lawton