PCE

PCE may stand for:

Business and economics

• Personal consumption expenditure, or private consumption expenditure
• Personal consumption expenditures price index, a measure of inflation

Chemistry and engineering

• PCE or eticyclidine, an illegal drug related to Phencyclidine (PCP)
• Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), widely used in dry-cleaning
• Pro-opiomelanocortin converting enzyme, an enzyme
• Pyrometric cone equivalent, measuring heat in the firing of pottery
• Power conversion efficiency, a near synonym for "Energy conversion efficiency" often used in the field of photovoltaics

Computing

• Path computation element, a network element used for pathfinding
• Principle of computational equivalence, a concept developed by Stephen Wolfram published in the book A New Kind of Science
• PC Engine, a video game console developed by NEC and Hudson Soft

Medicine

• Prenatal cocaine exposure, exposure of a fetus to cocaine when a pregnant woman uses the drug
• Eticyclidine, a dissociative anesthetic drug

Organizations

• Paavai College of Engineering, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India
• Padmanava College of Engineering, Rourkela, an engineering college in Rourkela, Orissa state, India
• Parents for Choice in Education, an advocacy group in Utah, U.S.
• Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, New Zealand government agency

Political parties

Spain

• PCE, Communist Party of Spain or "Partido Comunista de España"
• PCE(i), Communist Party of Spain (International)(1975) or Partido Comunista de España(Internacional)
• PCE(m-l), Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) or Partido Comunista de España (Marxista-Leninista)
• PCE(ML), Communist Party of Spain (Marxist–Leninist) (historical) or Partido Comunista de España (Marxista-Leninista)
• PCE(M-R), Workers' Party of Spain–Communist Unity or Partido de los Trabajadores de España–Unidad Comunista
• PCE(R), Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) or Partido Comunista de España (Reconstituido)

Other countries

• Parti Communautaire Européen, a political party in Belgium
• Partido Comunista del Ecuador, the Communist Party of Ecuador

Other

• ISO 639:pce or Palaung language, spoken in Burma and neighboring countries
• Passenger car equivalent, a measure of traffic flow
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Patrol craft escort (PCE)
• Power cost equalization, a state subsidy in Alaska
• Pardubice

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