BR
Appearance
BR or Br may refer to:
Places
- Bedroom
- BR postcode area, a group of eight postal districts in southeast London
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Brazil (BR), according to:
- Its two-letter country code defined in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- The prefix for Brazil's ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes
- FIPS 10-4, used by the U.S. Government for geographical data processing in many publications
- The Province of Brindisi, according to Italy's ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes
- Brown County, Kansas, according to its Kansas state county code, which is used on the state's license plates
- Brăila, a town and county in Romania. BR is used in the county's license plates
Business and organizations
- BR, the symbol used by Petrobras Distribuidora, the fuel retail division of Petrobras
- Banana Republic (clothing retailer), a chain of clothing stores
- Bernstein-Rein, the ad agency best known for inventing the Happy Meal
- Bangladesh Railway
- British Rail (British Railways), the nationalised railway system of the United Kingdom from 1948 until 1994
- Burlington Resources, a company purchased by ConocoPhillips in 2006
- The IATA code for EVA Air, a Taiwanese airline
- Bharat Rakshak, Consortium of Indian Military Websites
- Baskin-Robbins, a chain of ice cream parlors
- Best regards, finishing an e-mail or a letter
Science
- Bromine (Br), chemical element with atomic number 35
- 1,3-Butadiene, a type of rubber[1]
- Bacteriorhodopsin
Computing
- .br, country code top-level domain for Brazil
- Newline element in:
- Bombing Run, an Unreal Tournament gametype introduced in Unreal Tournament 2003
- Block / Remove, used in social networks and dating sites, as well as instant messaging programs
Music and media
- Battle Royale, a Japanese book, movie and manga
- Bad Religion, an American punk-rock band
- Bleacher Report, an online sports media network
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting), a regional broadcasting service in Germany
Other uses
- br, Breton language in ISO 639-1 language code
- Bankruptcy (B/R in legal shorthand) or representing a debtor who has filed bankruptcy
- Red Brigades (Italian: Brigate Rosse), an Italian militant leftist group
- Bathroom in Internet slang
- Bishop Ramsey School, a Church of England Voluntary Aided secondary school in Ruislip
- BR = Best Regards, an erroneous neologism from 'Best Wishes' and 'Kind Regards', when it appears at the end of an e-mail, before sender's name.
- Battle Rifle, a popular weapon in the 2007 Xbox 360 game, Halo 3.
- Br., abbreviation for brother, used by Catholic brothers and Friars.
See also
Notes
- ^ The Open University (UK), 2000. T838 Design and Manufacture with Polymers: Introduction to Polymers, page 9. Milton Keynes: The Open University.