Peterson may refer to:
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Peterson (surname)
Peterson/Petersen is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Peter." The given name Peter is derived from the Greek πέτρος (petros), meaning "rock" or "stone," and has been a popular name choice throughout history due to the Christi ...
Places
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Peterson Air Force Base
Peterson Space Force Base, previously Peterson Air Force Base, Peterson Field, and Army Air Base, Colorado Springs, is a United States Space Force base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport and is home t ...
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Peterson, Indiana
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Peterson, Iowa
Peterson is a city in Clay County, Iowa, United States. The population was 322 in the 2020 census, a decline from 372 in 2000.
History
The first settlement was made at Peterson in 1856. In 1862, a fort was built in Peterson by settlers to defe ...
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Peterson, Minnesota
Peterson is a city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 199 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census.
History
In the year 1853, Peter Peterson Haslerud purchased and platted the villa ...
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Peterson, Utah
Peterson is an unincorporated community in northwestern Morgan County, Utah, United States.
Geography
Peterson is located in northwest Morgan Valley, near Peterson Creek and Interstate 84, northwest of the town of Morgan.
Thurston Peak, t ...
Other uses
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Peterson (company), a Norwegian industrial company
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Peterson Field Guides
The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by renowned orn ...
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Peterson Pipes
Peterson is an Ireland, Irish Smoking pipe (tobacco), pipe maker headquartered in Dublin and founded in 1865.
History
Friedrich and Heinrich Kapp, Germany, German immigrants to Ireland from Nuremberg, founded the famed Kapp Brothers store on ...
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Peterson Quartet
The Petersen Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1979 by students at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, including founding first violinist, Ulrike Petersen, who has recently rejoined the quartet to alternate in the first chair with ...
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Peterson's algorithm
Peterson's algorithm (or Peterson's solution) is a concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two or more processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication. It was formulate ...
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USS ''Peterson'', two US Navy ships of that name
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''Peterson'' (album), a 2025 album by Tory Lanez
See also
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Justice Peterson (disambiguation) Justice Peterson may refer to:
* C. Donald Peterson (1918–1987), associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
* Edwin J. Peterson (born 1930), chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
* Henry K. Peterson (1884–1966), associate justice o ...
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Pedersen Pedersen () is a Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname, literally meaning "son of Peder". It is the fifth most common surname in Denmark, shared by about 3.4% of the population, and the sixth most common in Norway. It is of similar origin as the ...
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Pederson (disambiguation)
Pederson is a patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymi ...
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Petersen
Petersen is a common Danish patronymic surname, meaning ''"son of Peter"''. There are other spellings. Petersen may refer to:
People In arts and entertainment
* Adolf Dahm-Petersen, Norwegian voice specialist
* Anja Petersen, German operatic ...
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Peterson Farm (disambiguation) Peterson Farm or Peterson Farmstead may refer to:
* Brugjeld–Peterson Family Farmstead District, Wallingford, Iowa, listed on the NRHP in Iowa
* Andrew Peterson Farmstead, Waconia, Minnesota
* Peter Peterson Farmstead, Waverly, Nebraska, liste ...
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Peterson House (disambiguation) Peterson House may refer to:
* J. B. Doughterty and C. W. Peterson House, Phoenix, Arizona, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Phoenix
* Peterson House (Albany, California), listed on the NRHP in Alameda County
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