PR
Encyclopedia
PR commonly stands for
PR, P. R., Pr, or Pr. may also refer to:
- Public relationsPublic relationsPublic relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
, a field concerned with maintaining public image - Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
- Proportional representationProportional representationProportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...
, a property of some voting systems
PR, P. R., Pr, or Pr. may also refer to:
Business and Organisations
- Pakistan RailwaysPakistan RailwaysThis article is about the rail company in Pakistan. For technical details and operations see: Transport in Pakistan.Pakistan Railways is a national state-owned rail transport service of Pakistan, head-quartered in Lahore. It is administered by the federal government under the Ministry of Railways....
- Party of RegionsParty of RegionsThe Party of Regions is an Ukrainian political party created on October 26, 1997 just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. It was reformed later in 2001 when the party united with several others...
- PayrollPayrollIn a company, payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during a certain period of time. Payroll plays a major role in a company for several reasons...
- Philippine AirlinesPhilippine AirlinesPhilippine Airlines, Inc. operating as Philippine Airlines, is a flag carrier of the Philippines. Headquartered in the Philippine National Bank Financial Center in Pasay City, the airline was founded in 1941 and is the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name...
IATA airline designator - The Princeton ReviewThe Princeton ReviewThe Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college...
, an education company
Ecclesiastical
- PastorPastorThe word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....
- PresbyterPresbyterPresbyter in the New Testament refers to a leader in local Christian congregations, then a synonym of episkopos...
(that is, priestPriestA priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...
) which may also be abbreviated as "Prb." or "Pbr". - Permanens Rector ("Permanent RectorRectorThe word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...
") - PaterPaterPater may refer to:*the Latin for "father"*a title given to a father deity** Dis Pater, a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter** God the Father in Christianity*a title or honorific applied to a male community leader...
, a title used in the Latin tradition referring to a presbyterPresbyterPresbyter in the New Testament refers to a leader in local Christian congregations, then a synonym of episkopos...
(that is, a priestPriestA priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...
) as a spiritual Father. Compare Fr. for "father" in English (not to be confused with the Latin frater, a designation of members of monastic orders, or friarFriarA friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.-Friars and monks:...
, all religious designations).
Computing
- Adobe Premiere ProAdobe Premiere ProAdobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems, though it can also be purchased separately. When purchased separately, it comes...
, software which uses "Pr" as its icon abbreviation - PagerankPageRankPageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by the Google Internet search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set...
, a Google technology - Performance Rating, a computing term by AMD
- Perpendicular recordingPerpendicular recordingPerpendicular recording is a technology for data recording on hard disks. It was first proven advantageous in 1976 by Shun-ichi Iwasaki, then professor of the Tohoku University in Japan, and first commercially implemented in 2005.-Advantages:Perpendicular recording can deliver more than three...
, hard disk technology - Project RealityProject RealityProject Reality is an unfinished series of tactical First-person shooter video games which aim to create a realistic combat environment and place great emphasis on teamwork and cooperation...
, a modification of the Battlefield 2 game - PR (complexity)PR (complexity)PR is the complexity class of all primitive recursive functions – or, equivalently, the set of all formal languages that can be decided by such a function...
, a complexity class
Science and medicine
- Pathogenesis-related, a type of plant proteins produced during a pathogen infection
- Peripheral resistance, in blood circulation, the resistance of the peripheral vasculature in systemic circulation
- Per rectumRectal (medicine)The rectal route of administration is a way of administering drugs into the rectum to be absorbed by the rectum's blood vesselsThe rectum has numerous amounts of blood vessels available to absorbed the drug introduced into the rectum...
, in medicine - Photorefractive effectPhotorefractive effectThe photorefractive effect is a nonlinear optical effect seen in certain crystals and other materials that respond to light by altering their refractive index....
- Prandtl number, in physics and engineering
- PraseodymiumPraseodymiumPraseodymium is a chemical element that has the symbol Pr and atomic number 59. Praseodymium is a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal in the lanthanide group. It is too reactive to be found in native form, and when artificially prepared, it slowly develops a green oxide coating.The element...
, chemical element number 59 (abbreviated "Pr") - Probability of release, a term used in neuroscienceNeuroscienceNeuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
- Progesterone receptorProgesterone receptorThe progesterone receptor also known as NR3C3 , is an intracellular steroid receptor that specifically binds progesterone...
, a protein - PropylPropylIn organic chemistry, propyl is a three-carbon alkyl substituent with chemical formula -C3H7. It is the substituent form of the alkane propane...
radicals, in organic chemistry
Mathematics
- Positive-real, in mathematics the defining property of positive-real functionPositive-real functionPositive-real functions, often abbreviated to PR function, are a kind of mathematical function that first arose in electrical network analysis. They are complex functions, Z, of a complex variable, s...
s - PR (complexity)PR (complexity)PR is the complexity class of all primitive recursive functions – or, equivalently, the set of all formal languages that can be decided by such a function...
, a complexity class
Places
- Paraná (state)Paraná (state)Paraná is one of the states of Brazil, located in the South of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the Misiones Province of Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and the republic of Paraguay,...
, Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR) - ParmaParmaParma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
(province) Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT) - Port Richmond (disambiguation)
- Portuguese Republic
- PR postcode area, for Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
(island) (ISO 3166)
Sport
- Precisely RightPrecisely RightPrecisely Right is a synchronized skating team representing the Skating Club of Morris from Mennen Arena in Morris Township, New Jersey. The team was founded in 1991 and is, as of 2011, twenty years old...
, a synchronized skating team - Punt returnerPunt returnerPunt returner is a position on special teams in American football.-Description:The role of a punt returner is to catch the ball after it is punted and to give his team good field position by returning it. Before catching the punted ball, the returner must assess the situation on the field while...
, a position in American football - Protected Ranking, a tennis term used in tournaments - see Glossary of tennis
- Personnal Record, a weight record in PowerliftingPowerliftingPowerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
Television
- Power RangersPower RangersPower Rangers is a long-running American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes...
, referred to as PR by fans - P.R. (TV series)P.R. (TV series)P.R. was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in 2000. The show starred Diane Flacks as Alexandra Reed and Ellie Harvie as Jill Hayes, partners in a public relations firm...
, a Canadian television sitcom
Other
- Peer reviewPeer reviewPeer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
- Permanent residencyPermanent residencyPermanent residency refers to a person's visa status: the person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country of which he or she is not a citizen. A person with such status is known as a permanent resident....
, in immigration - Permanent revolutionPermanent RevolutionPermanent revolution is a term within Marxist theory, established in usage by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels by at least 1850 but which has since become most closely associated with Leon Trotsky. The use of the term by different theorists is not identical...
, in politics - Pizza Roll, a snack food
- Poste restantePoste restantePoste restante or general delivery is a service where the post office holds mail until the recipient calls for it...
, a service where the post office holds mail until the recipient calls for it - Press release
- Protestant ReformationProtestant ReformationThe Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...
- Partisan ReviewPartisan ReviewPartisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003, though it suspended publication between October 1936 and December 1937.-Overview:...
, a defunct political and literary journal - Pr., Estonian abbreviation for Proua, or Mrs.Mrs.Mrs or Mrs. is a honorific used for women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title, such as Dr, Lady, or Dame. In most Commonwealth countries, a full stop is not used with the title...