PCM (disambiguation)

PCM or pulse-code modulation is a digital representation of an analog signal.

PCM may also refer to:

Computing
  • Performance Counter Monitor, Intel's technology for monitoring performance levels of CPUs
  • Personal Computer Magazine, a Dutch computer magazine
  • Phase-change memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory
  • Plug-compatible machine (or plug-compatible manufacturer), a computer system (or its manufacturer) designed to be operationally compatible with a computer made by a different manufacturer
  • Process control monitoring, in computing, a procedure followed to obtain detailed information about the process use

Technology
  • Phase change material, a chemical substance with a high heat of fusion
  • Phase conjugate mirror, a type of mirror, that conjugates the phase of the light while reflecting it
  • Photochemical machining, a process for machining thin materials with chemicals and UV light
  • Polarizable continuum model, used to model solvent in physical chemistry computation
  • Powertrain control module, an on-board car computer designed to minimize its emissions and increase fuel economy

Organizations
  • Partido Comunista Mexicano (Mexican Communist Party), a former communist political party in Mexico
  • Partidul Civic Maghiar (Hungarian Civic Party), an ethnic Hungarian political party in Romania
  • Private Capital Management, a Florida-based wealth-management firm co-founded by Bruce Sherman
  • PCM Uitgevers, a Dutch publishing company
  • PCM, Inc., a U.S. computer retailing company

Other uses
  • Per cent mille (pcm), one one-thousandth of a percent
  • Pro Cycling Manager, a cycling game by Cyanide Studios
  • Project cycle management, the process of planning and managing projects, programmes and organisations
  • Psychological continuum model, a framework to classify sport and event consumers, in order of their psychological connection towards the object
  • Nigerian pidgin language, ISO language code "pcm"
  • Process Communication Model, a non-clinical personality assessment, communication and management methodology in the work of Taibi Kahler
  • Perchloromethyl mercaptan, a synthetic intermediate
  • Per calendar month, an abbreviation used in legal agreements
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