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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
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
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(i), Communist Party of Spain or Partido Comunista de España
- 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
- PCE-842-class patrol craft, U.S. Navy patrol craft escorts, many of which were transferred to the Philippine Navy
- Power cost equalization, a state subsidy in Alaska
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gollark: Like "quantum".
gollark: They are sciency-sounding words which turn up a lot but have somewhat complex definitions.
gollark: I mean, in an extreme edge case, what if there's only one person in the entire universe, they punch a wall, and randomly die for unrelated reasons? How is that going to cause more violence down the line?
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