PR

PR, P.R., Pr, or Pr. may refer to:

Social science

• Public relations, a field concerned with maintaining public image

Geography

• Paraná (state), Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
• Parma, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT)
• Port Richmond (disambiguation), various locations
• PR postcode area, for Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
• Puerto Rico, ISO 3166 code PR

Organizations

• Party of Regions, a Ukrainian political party
• Payroll, the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee
• The Princeton Review, an education company

Transportation

• Pakistan Railways, reporting mark PR, is a national state-owned rail transport service of Pakistan
• Philippine Airlines, IATA airline designation PR

Ecclesialogy

• Pastor, an ordained leader of a Christian congregation
• Presbyter, or priest, may also be abbreviated as Prb or Pbr
• Permanens Rector, or Permanent Rector, a person who holds the office of presiding over an ecclesiastical institution
• Pater, or priest, Latin for father

Computing

• Adobe Premiere Pro, software which uses "Pr" as its icon abbreviation
• Pagerank, a Google technology
• Performance Rating, a computing term by AMD
• Perpendicular recording, hard disk technology
• Project Reality, a modification of the games Battlefield 2 and ArmA 2
• PR (complexity), a complexity class
• Pull Request, a type of message sent between DVCS users

Politics

• Republican Party of Albania, a political party in Albania
• Pakatan Rakyat, a political coalition in Malaysia composed of three parties: Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, Parti Keadilan Rakyat and Democratic Action Party
• Proportional representation, a property of some voting systems

Military

• Parachute rigger, a former rank of the U.S. Navy
• Pershing Rifles

Science

• 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 rectum, in medicine
• Photorefractive effect
• Prandtl number, in physics and engineering
• Praseodymium, chemical element number 59 (abbreviated "Pr")
• Probability of release, a term used in neuroscience
• Progesterone receptor, a protein
• Propyl radicals, in organic chemistry

Mathematics

• Pr(E), also P(E), denotes the probability of a particular event E.
• Positive-real, in mathematics the defining property of positive-real functions
• PR (complexity), a complexity class

Sports

• Precisely Right, a synchronized skating team
• Punt returner, a position in American football
• Protected Ranking, a tennis term used in tournaments - see Glossary of tennis
• Personal Record, the fastest time an individual has achieved in a given running distance.
• Personal Record, a weight record in Powerlifting

Television

• Power Rangers, referred to as PR by fans
• P.R. (TV series), a Canadian television sitcom
• Pretty Rhythm, A Japanese Animation Series
• Parks and Recreation, an American comedy series.

Other uses

• Peer review
• Permanent residency, in immigration
• Permanent revolution, in politics
• Pizza Roll, a snack food
• Poste restante, a service where the post office holds mail until the recipient calls for it
• Press release
• Protestant Reformation
• Partisan Review, a defunct political and literary journal
• Pr., Estonian abbreviation for Proua, or Mrs..
• Person reporting, used in voice procedure (police radio codes)

See also

• P&R (disambiguation)
• RP (disambiguation)