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 follower to obtain detailed information about the process use

Science and technology

• Perchloromethyl mercaptan, a synthetic intermediate
• 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
• Phylogenetic comparative methods, a method for historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses in biology
• Polarizable continuum model, used to model solvent in physical chemistry computation
• Powertrain control module, an on-board vehicle computer designed to minimize its emissions and increase fuel economy
• Principal chiral model, a quantum field theory which is integrable in two dimensions
• Protection circuit module, used in battery packs

Organizations

• Paralympic Council of Malaysia, the National Paralympic Committee of Malaysia
• 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
• Pacific Cyber/Metrix, a defunct American computer company
• PCM, Inc., a U.S. computer retailing company
• PCM Uitgevers, a Dutch publishing company
• Private Capital Management, a Florida-based wealth-management firm co-founded by Bruce Sherman

Other

• pcm, the ISO language code for Nigerian pidgin
• Per calendar month, an abbreviation used in legal agreements
• Per cent mille (pcm), one one-thousandth of a percent
• Pomona College Magazine, alumni magazine of Pomona College
• Pro Cycling Manager, a cycling game by Cyanide Studios
• Project cycle management, the process of planning and managing projects, programmes and organisations
• Process Communication Model, a non-clinical personality assessment, communication and management methodology in the work of Taibi Kahler
• Psychological continuum model, a framework to classify sport and event consumers, in order of their psychological connection towards the object
• Paracoccidioidomycosis, an acute to chronic fungal infection
• r/PoliticalCompassMemes, a subreddit dedicated towards memes relating to the Political Compass test