HR
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HR, Hr or hr may refer to:
Arts and media
Film and television
- H.R. Pufnstuf, a children's television series
- Haibane Renmei, an anime series
- Hannibal Rising (film), a 2007 thriller featuring the Hannibal Lecter character
- A television drama starring Alicia Silverstone
- A criminal organisation in the American TV series Person of Interest
Other media
- HR (girl group), a Japanese idol girl group
- Halo Reach, a 2010 video game from Bungie Studios
- Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting) (HR), a public broadcaster for the German state (Bundesland) of Hessen
- Hispanic Review, an academic journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press
- Homestar Runner, a flash animated Internet cartoon
Business and finance
- Human resource management (HRM, or simply HR), in the sense of personnel services in organisations
- 'High Risk', the lowest level of credit rating in some systems
- Ukrainian hryvnia, the currency of Ukraine
Government and politics
- Croatian language (ISO 639 code)
- High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (High Representative), the foreign policy chief of the European Union
- United States House of Representatives, and all bills originating therefrom
- Bureau of Human Resources, in the U.S. Department of State
People
- H.R. (b. 1956), lead singer of Bad Brains
- Harley Race (b. 1943), retired pro wrestler, current promoter
- Harold Reynolds (b. 1960), former major league baseball player, current commentator
- Henry Rollins (b. 1961), American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, actor, activist and publisher
- Himesh Reshammiya (b. 1973), Indian composer, singer and actor
- Hrithik Roshan (b. 1974), Indian actor
Places
- HR postcode area, UK, covering six post towns around Hereford, England
- Hampton Roads, a region of south-eastern Virginia
- Haryana, a state in northern India
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
- HR (gene) (Hairless homolog (mouse)), a gene which encodes a protein whose function has been linked to hair growth
- Haemodynamic response, rapid delivery of blood to active neuronal tissues
- Heart rate (HR), a measure of the number of heart beats per minute (bpm)
- Homologous recombination, in genetics, the process in which genetic material is exchanged between two similar or identical strands of DNA
- Hypersensitive response, a mechanism used by plants to prevent the spread of infection by microbial pathogens
- Hydroxyethylrutoside, a class of drugs
Computing
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<hr/>
, an HTML element that creates a 'horizontal rule' or dividing line - .hr, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Croatia
- HR (software), a program that automatically forms mathematical theories by searching for sequences of numbers
- Half Rate (HR or GSM-HR), a speech coding system for GSM developed in the early 1990s
Other uses in science and technology
- Hazard ratio, the effect of an explanatory variable on the hazard or risk of an event
- Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (H-R diagram or HRD, also known as a colour-magnitude diagram or CMD), used in understanding stellar evolution in astronomy and astrophysics
- High-Resolution High-Definition (HRHD, HR, HRHDTV or HR.HDTV), referring to an image resolution derived from high-definition video
- Hayati-Roberts link frame convention (HR), a robotics convention for representation of coordinates
- Hour (hr)
- Star catalogue symbol standing for Harvard observatory, revised photometry
Transportation
- Heritage railway, a term used for a railway which is run as a tourist attraction
- Highland Railway, one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act of 1921
- 'HR', IATA airline designator for Hahn Air
- 'HR', 1960s car model of Australian automaker Holden
Other uses
- 'human remains', a term used by funeral homes
- Harrah's Reno, a hotel and casino located in Reno, Nevada, US
- Home run, in the sport of baseball
- Human Rights, rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered to be entitled
- ⟨hr⟩, a two-letter combination used in some languages
- Reduction of /hr/ to /r/ in Old/Middle English
See also
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