PCS

PCS may refer to:

Military

• Permanent change of station, to be permanently moved to a new post in the U.S. armed forces
• Personal Clothing System, designation of British Army No. 8 Combat Dress
• Patrol Craft Sweeper, a class of World War II U.S. Navy vessels, including:
  • USS PCS-1376, the lead ship of her class
  • USS PCS-1379, the fourth of twelve

Organizations

• Communist Party of El Salvador (Template:Lang-es), a political party in El Salvador
• PhillyCarShare, a defunct non-profit organization in Philadelphia, US, acquired by Enterprise in 2011
• Polish Council of State, supreme political body of Poland from 1947 to 1989
• Portland Center Stage, a theater company based in Portland, Oregon, US since 1988
• Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, a former Canadian producer of potash
• Provincial Civil Service, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Provo Canyon School, a US psychiatric youth residential treatment center
• Public and Commercial Services Union, a trade union representing UK public sector workers
• Sammarinese Communist Party (Template:Lang-it), a former political party in San Marino

Education

• Pacific Collegiate School, a grades 7–12 charter school in Santa Cruz, California, US
• Petaluma City Schools, the school district of Petaluma, California, US
• Presbyterian Christian School, a private school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
• Professional Children's School, a college preparatory school for child actors and dancers in New York City, US
• Pueblo City Schools, the school district of Pueblo, Colorado, US
• Pendleton Christian School, a seventh-day adventist private school located in Pendleton, Oregon, US

Science and technology

• Partitioning Communication System, a high-assurance communications security technology
• Periphere Computer Systeme, a German manufacturer of UNIX-based computers in the 1980s and 1990s
• Personal Communications Service, a set of wireless communications capabilities
• Photon correlation spectroscopy, a spectroscopic technique in chemistry and physics used to determine particle sizes in suspensions
• Physical coding sublayer, an Ethernet Layer 1 (PHY) sub-layer
• Picture communication symbols, drawings used to communicate with autistic people and in other alternative communication systems
• Plastic-clad silica fiber, a type of optical fiber
• Process control system, for industrial process control
• Profile connection space, an intermediary form for color-data used when performing conversions between color spaces

Medicine

• Pelvic congestion syndrome, a cause of chronic pain in the abdomen
• Post-concussion syndrome, a set of symptoms that a person may experience after a concussion
• Post-COVID syndrome, symptoms that develop and continue for a long time after COVID-19
• Postcholecystectomy syndrome, the presence of abdominal symptoms after surgery to remove the gallbladder
• Precordial catch syndrome, a common cause of chest pain complaints in children and adolescents

Other uses

• Pacific Central Station, a railway station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Pacific Championship Series, a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends
• Photo City Sagamihara, awards for photography given annually by the Japanese town of Sagamihara
• Pinball Construction Set, a computer game by Bill Budge published by Electronic Arts
• Program Component Score, part of the ISU Judging System for figure skating competitions
• Prime Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of Kenya

See also

• Parsec (pc), a unit of distance used in astronomy
• Personal computer (PCs)
• PC (disambiguation)