Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms

• PMCS — Partial Mission Capable Supply (SM&R Code) – Power Management Control System – Professional Military Comptroller School
• PME — Professional Military Education
• PMID — PubMed Identifier
• PMMA — PolyMethylMethAcrylate
• PMOS — P-type/Positive Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Transistor (pee-moss)
• PMSC — NATO Political-Military Steering Committee On Partnership For Peace
• PN — Petanewton – Pitcairn Islands (ISO 3166 Digram)
• PN — Piconewton
• PNAC — Project For The New American Century
• PNF — Pilot Not Flying (aviation)
• PNG — Papua New Guinea (ISO 3166 Trigram) -Portable Network Graphic
• PNH — Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria – Police Nationale D’Ha?ti (French
• PNP — Partido Nuevo Progresista – Plug ‘N’ Play/Pray – Positive Negative Positive
• PNS — Pensacola
• PNVS — Pilot Night Vision Sensor
• PO — Dust Devil (METAR Code) -per Os (Latin
• PO — Polonium
• POCD — Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction
• POD — Plain Old Documentation
• POD — Port of Debarkation
• POE — Perl Object Environment -Port of Embarkation
• POETS — Portable Occultation
• POG — Passionfruit
• POGO — Project On Government Oversight
• POI — Program of Instruction
• POK — Plane of Knowledge
• POL — Petroleum, Oil, And Lubricant
• POL — Polish Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• POLAD — Political Advice
• POM — Program Objective Memorandum – PolyOxyMethylene
• POMDP — Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
• POP — Point of Presence – Post Office Protocol – Progesterone Only Pill
• POR — Proposed Operational Requirement
• POR — Portuguese Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• POS — Point of Sale Terminal /Retail Industry Transaction Computers.
• POSH — Port Outbound Starboard Home (alleged)
• POSSLQ — Person of The Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
• POT — Plane of Tranquility
• POTS — Plain Old Telephone Service (cf. PANS) – Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
• POW — Prisoner of War
• PP — Papua New Guinea (FIPS 10-4 Country Code) -Passage Point – Per Procurationem (Latin
• PPA — Parahippocampal Place Area – PolyPhthalAmide
• PPASC — (U.S.) Plans And Program Analysis Support Center
• PPCLI — Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (regiment)
• PPLI — Precise Participant Location & Identification
• PPM — Parts Per Million
• PPM — Parts Per Million
• PPO — PolyPhenylene Oxide
• PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol – Purchasing Power Parity
• PPQ — Pulses Per Quarter (used In Music Programming
• PPQN — Pulses Per Quarter Note (ditto)
• PPQT — Pre-Production Qualification Test
• PPS — Post Postscriptum – Precise/Precision Positioning Service (GPS) – PolyPhenylene Sulfide
• PQ — Province of Qu?bec (obsolete Postal Code
• PR — Public Relations -Puerto Rico (postal Symbol; ISO 3166 Digram)
• PR — Praseodymium
• PRBO — Point Reyes Bird Observatory
• PRC — People’s Republic of China
• PRFG — Partial Fog (METAR Code)
• PRI — Puerto Rico (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• PRK — Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• PRM — Personnel Readiness Management
• PRN — Pro Re Nata (Latin
• PRT — Portugal (ISO 3166 Trigram) -Provincial Reconstruction Team
• PRY — Paraguay (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• PS — Palestine (ISO 3166 Digram) -Personnel Services -petasiemens -post Scriptum (Latin
• PS — Pashto Language (ISO 639-1 Code) – Picosecond
• PS — Petasecond
• PS — Picosiemens
• PSA — Paralysis Society of America – Pharmaceutical Society of Australia – Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive – Production Services Association – Prostate Specific Antigen – Public Service Announcement – Public Service Association
• PSC — Primary Somatosensory Cortex
• PSE — Palestine (ISO 3166 Trigram)
• PSG — Pacific Seabird Group
• PSI — Portable Source Initiative
• PSO — Peace Support Operations – Primary Standardisation Office (ABCA) – Protocol Supporting Organization (of The ICANN)
• PSS — Personnel System Support
• PST — Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8 Hours)
• PSV — Philips Sport Vereniging (Dutch For Philips Sports Union) – Public Service Vehicle
• PSYOP — Psychological Operations
• PT — Petatesla -Physical Training (in The Army) -Portugal (ISO 3166 Digram)
• PT — Picotesla
• PT — Platinum
• PT — Portuguese Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
• PTA — Parent-Teacher Association
• PTAL — Public Transport Accessibility Level
• PTAN — Precision Terrain Aided Navigation
• PTFE — PolyTetraFluoroEthylene
• PTL — Patrol -Primary Target Line
• PTO — Patent & Trademark Office – Please Turn Over
• PTSD — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• PTUI — Plain-Text User Interface (pa-too-ey) (cf CLI)
• PU — Guinea-Bissau (FIPS 10-4 Country Code) -Polyurethane -United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 Digram; Obsolete 1986)
• PU — Plutonium
• PUB — Publication
• PUG — PET Users Group
• PUN — Pull-Up Network
• PUP — Pull-Up Point
• PUS — Pashto Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
• PUS — United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands (ISO 3166 Trigram; Obsolete 1986)
• PV — Petavolt