PR, P.R., Pr, pr, or Pr. may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''P.R.'' (TV series), a Canadian television sitcom
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Partisan Review'', a former political and literary journal
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Perry Rhodan'', German science fiction series
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Power Rangers'', an American television franchise based on ''Super Sentai''
Places
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PR postcode area, UK, including Preston and Lancashire
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ParanĂ¡ (state), Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
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Parma, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT)
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Puerto Rico, ISO 3166 code PR
Politics
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Pakatan Rakyat, an informal Malaysian political coalition
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Party of Labour (''Partija rada''), a political party in Serbia
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Proportional representation, a property of some voting systems
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Republican Party of Albania
The Republican Party of Albania (, PR or PRSH ) is a national-conservative political party in Albania. It currently holds 3 of the 140 seats in the Parliament of Albania, in alliance with the Democratic Party of Albania.
History
The party was fou ...
, a political party in Albania
Public relations
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Public relations, the professional maintenance of a favorable public image by an organisation or person
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Press release, a prepared statement given to the news media as a public-relations tool
Religion
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Pastor, an ordained leader of a Christian congregation
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Permanens Rector, or Permanent Rector, of a parish
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
* Partial Response, a component of
Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors
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Pathogenesis-related proteins, produced by plants under pathogen attack
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Penicillium roqueforti
''Penicillium roqueforti'' is a common saprotrophic fungus in the genus ''Penicillium''. Widespread in nature, it can be isolated from soil, decaying organic matter, and plants.
The major industrial use of this fungus is the production of blue ...
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Per rectum'', meaning "administered rectally"
*Pigment Red (e.g., Para red,
Pigment Red 190
Pigment Red 190 (C.I. 71140), also called Vat Red 29, is a synthetic organic compound that is used both as a pigment and as a vat dye. Although structurally a derivative of perylene, it is produced from acenaphthene.K. Hunger. W. Herbst "Pigm ...
)
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PR interval, a measurement used in cardiology
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PR-104
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Progesterone receptor
The progesterone receptor (PR), also known as NR3C3 or nuclear receptor subfamily 3, group C, member 3, is a protein found inside cells. It is activated by the steroid hormone progesterone.
In humans, PR is encoded by a single ''PGR'' gene resid ...
, a protein
Computing
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PR (complexity), a complexity class
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pr (Unix), Unix command to paginate or columnate files for printing
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based and non-linear video editing software application (NLE) developed by Adobe Inc. and published as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud licensing program. First launched in 2003, Adobe Premiere Pro is a succes ...
, software which uses "Pr" as its icon abbreviation
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Pagerank, a Google technology
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Performance Rating, a computing term by AMD
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Project Reality, series of video games
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Pull request, part of distributed version control
* Part of the
YPbPr standard
Mathematics
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PR (complexity), a complexity class
* Pr(''E''), also P(''E''), the probability of an
event ''E''
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Positive-real function
Positive-real functions, often abbreviated to PR function or PRF, are a kind of mathematical function that first arose in electrical network synthesis. They are complex functions, ''Z''(''s''), of a complex variable, ''s''. A rational function i ...
, in mathematics
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Proportional representation, a property of some voting systems
Other uses in science and technology
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Praseodymium, symbol Pr, a chemical element
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Prandtl number
The Prandtl number (Pr) or Prandtl group is a dimensionless number, named after the German physicist Ludwig Prandtl, defined as the ratio of momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity. The Prandtl number is given as:
: \mathrm = \frac = \frac ...
, in physics and engineering, typically denoted ''Pr''
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Propyl radicals or groups, denoted ''Pr'' in organic chemistry
Sports
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Personal record (sport), an individual's personal record in a particular event
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Pinch runner
In baseball, a pinch runner is a player substituted for the specific purpose of replacing another player on base. The pinch runner may be faster or otherwise more skilled at base-running than the player for whom the pinch runner has been sub ...
, in baseball
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Protected ranking, a method of ranking tennis players coming back from injury
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Punt returner
A return specialist or kick returner is a player on the special teams unit of a gridiron football team who specializes in returning punts and kickoffs. There are few players who are exclusively return specialists; most also play another position ...
, a position in American football
Transportation
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Pakistan Railways (reporting mark PR)
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Park and ride, a type of car park with public transport connections
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Philippine Airlines (IATA airline designation PR)
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Poste restante'', mail held for collection
Other uses
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Pakistan Rangers, a paramilitary force of Pakistan
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Parachute rigger, a former U.S. Navy rank
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Permanent residency
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Princess Royal
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Professor
See also
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P&R (disambiguation)
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PRS (disambiguation)
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RP (disambiguation)
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