Perk may refer to:
Places
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Perk, Belgium, part of the municipality of Steenokkerzeel
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Perk Castle, a castle near there
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Perk Summit, Victoria Land, Antarctica
People
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August Perk (1897–1945), anti-Nazi German resistance fighter
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Brian Perk
Brian Gregory Perk (born July 21, 1989) is an American former soccer player.
Career
College and amateur
Perk appeared in goal for the UCLA Bruins between 2006 and 2009, where he won numerous individual honors, including – 2006 Top Drawer So ...
(born 1989), American soccer player
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Ralph Perk
Ralph Joseph Perk (January 19, 1914 – April 21, 1999) was an American politician who served as the 52nd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1971 to 1977.
Early life
Born to an ethnic Czech American family in Cleveland, Perk dropped out of high ...
(1914–1999), American politician
*nickname of
Percy Galbraith
Percival Walter "Perk" Galbraith (December 5, 1898 – June 19, 1961) was a Canadian ice hockey forward. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He played in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators between 1926 and 1934.
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(1898–1961), Canadian National Hockey League forward
*nickname of
Kendrick Perkins
Kendrick Le'Dale Perkins (born November 10, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player who serves as sports analyst for ESPN. He entered the NBA directly out of high school and played for the Boston Celtics, Oklahoma City Thunde ...
(born 1984), American National Basketball Association player
Other uses
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Employee benefit
Employment is a relationship between two party (law), parties Regulation, regulating the provision of paid Labour (human activity), labour services. Usually based on a employment contract, contract, one party, the employer, which might be a cor ...
, also known as a perk, from
perquisite
Employee benefits and benefits in kind (especially in British English), also called fringe benefits, perquisites, or perks, include various types of non-wage compensation provided to an employee by an employer in addition to their normal wage or ...
: various non-wage compensations provided in addition to cash wages
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Tetrachloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene or under the systematic name tetrachloroethene, and abbreviations such as perc (or PERC), and PCE, is a chlorocarbon with the formula . It is a non-flammable, stable, colorless and heavy liqu ...
, a chemical used for dry-cleaning, referred to in British English as Perk
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Thermodynamic beta
In statistical thermodynamics, thermodynamic beta, also known as coldness, is the reciprocal of the thermodynamic temperature of a system:\beta = \frac (where is the temperature and is Boltzmann constant).
Thermodynamic beta has units recip ...
, a fundamental quantity in statistical mechanics
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EIF2AK3
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-alpha kinase 3, also known as protein kinase R (PKR)-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK), is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''EIF2AK3'' gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gen ...
, a human enzyme, often abbreviated as PERK
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Perk, a bonus which gives a video game character a special ability
See also
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PERC (disambiguation)
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Perks (disambiguation)
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PERQ
The PERQ, also referred to as the Three Rivers PERQ or ICL PERQ, is a pioneering workstation computer produced in the late 1970s through the early 1980s. It is the first commercially-produced personal workstation with a graphical user interface ...
, a workstation computer
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