PFCとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

PFC (countable and uncountable, plural PFCs)

1. (military) Initialism of private first class.
   • 1962, The Manchurian Candidate, 01:56:35

     If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.

2. (neuroanatomy) Initialism of prefrontal cortex.
   • 2016, Pierre Jolicoeur, ‎Christine Lefebvre, ‎Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Mechanisms of Sensory Working Memory (page 128)

     Another recent study found that in a delayed recognition working memory task, after affecting the functional connectivity between the PFC and the parahippocampal place area with a task designed to produce interference, older adults were unable to regain connectivity to preinterference levels, unlike younger adults who could.

   • 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:

     To quote George W. Bush, within the frontal cortex, it's the PFC that is “the decider.”

3. (chemistry) Initialism of perfluorocarbon.

   Coordinate terms: CFC, HCFC, HFC

   • 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech‎:

     PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target.

4. (psychology) Initialism of preference for consistency.
5. (electrical engineering) Initialism of power factor correction.
6. (uncountable) Initialism of perfect fit content.
   • 2025, Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN:

     By 2023, according to a review of charts and messages shared on the company Slack, over 100 official playlists were made almost entirely of PFC, […] .

Further reading

• Perfluorocarbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Power factor correction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prefrontal cortex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Private First Class on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• CPF, FPC, CFP, fcp