Perk may refer to:
Places
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Perk, Belgium
Steenokkerzeel () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Melsbroek, Perk and Steenokkerzeel proper. On December 31, 2010 Steenokkerzeel had a total population of 11,580. The tot ...
, part of the municipality of Steenokkerzeel
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Perk Castle
Steenokkerzeel () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Melsbroek, Perk and Steenokkerzeel proper. On December 31, 2010 Steenokkerzeel had a total population of 11,580. The t ...
, a castle near there
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Perk Summit Perk Summit () is a mountain peak, 1,750 m, that is the highest elevation on the ridge between Mount McLennan and Mount Keohane, in Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Henry Per ...
, Victoria Land, Antarctica
People
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August Perk
August Perk (October 25, 1897, Lohne / Lingen, Germany; – May 12, 1945, Braunschweig, Germany) was a German Resistance fighter against the National Socialism. His brief friendship with Erich Maria Remarque influenced Remarque's novel ''All ...
(1897–1945), anti-Nazi German resistance fighter
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Brian Perk (born 1989), American soccer player
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Ralph Perk
Ralph Joseph Perk (January 19, 1914 – April 21, 1999) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 52nd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
Early life
Born to an ethnic Czech American family in Cleveland, Perk dropped out of ...
(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 "Perk" Perkins (born November 10, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst for ESPN. He entered the NBA directly out of high school and played for the Boston Celtics, Oklahoma City Thund ...
(born 1984), American National Basketball Association player
Other uses
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Employee benefit
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any ot ...
, also known as a perk, from
perquisite
Employee benefits and (especially in British English) benefits in kind (also called fringe benefits, perquisites, or perks) include various types of non-wage compensation provided to employees in addition to their normal wages or salaries. Insta ...
: various non-wage compensations provided in addition to cash wages
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Tetrachloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene, also known under the systematic name tetrachloroethene, or perchloroethylene, and many other names (and abbreviations such as "perc" or "PERC", and "PCE"), is a chlorocarbon with the formula Cl2C=CCl2 . It is a colorless liq ...
, 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).J. Meixner (1975) "Coldness and Temp ...
, 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 gene ...
, a human enzyme, often abbreviated as PERK
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Perk
Perk may refer to:
Places
*Perk, Belgium, part of the municipality of Steenokkerzeel
** Perk Castle, a castle near there
* Perk Summit, Victoria Land, Antarctica
People
* August Perk (1897–1945), anti-Nazi German resistance fighter
* Brian 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) Perks may refer to:
People
* Perks (surname)
Other uses
* Perks baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
* Perks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community
* Perks Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Indi ...
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PERQ
The PERQ, also referred to as the Three Rivers PERQ or ICL PERQ, was a pioneering workstation computer produced in the late 1970s through the early 1980s. In June 1979, the company took its very first order from the UK's Rutherford Appleton La ...
, a workstation computer
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