PR

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

• Public relations, the professional maintenance of a favorable public image by a company or other organisation or a famous person

Arts and entertainment

• P.R. (TV series), a Canadian television sitcom
• Partisan Review, a former political and literary journal

Places

• PR postcode area, UK, including Preston and Lancashire
• Paraná (state), Brazil (ISO 3166-2:BR)
• Parma, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT)
• Puerto Rico, ISO 3166 code PR

Politics

• Pakatan Rakyat, an informal Malaysian political coalition
• Party of the Republic, Brazilian political party
• Republican Party of Albania, a political party in Albania
• Proportional representation, a property of some voting systems

Religion

• Pastor, an ordained leader of a Christian congregation
• Permanens Rector, or Permanent Rector, of a parish

Science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

• Pathogenesis-related proteins, produced by plants under pathogen attack
• Per rectum, meaning "administered rectally"
• Progesterone receptor, a protein

Computing

• pr (Unix), Unix command to paginate or columnate files for printing
• PR (complexity), a complexity class
• Pagerank, a Google technology
• Performance Rating, a computing term by AMD
• Adobe Premiere Pro, software which uses "Pr" as its icon abbreviation
• Project Reality, series of video games
• Pull request, part of distributed version control

Mathematics

• PR (complexity), a complexity class
• Pr(E), also P(E), the probability of an event E
• Positive-real function, in mathematics

Other uses in science and technology

• Prandtl number, in physics and engineering
• Praseodymium, chemical element number 59, symbol Pr
• Propyl radicals, in organic chemistry

Sports

• Punt returner, a position in American football
• Personal record (sport), an individual's personal record in a particular event
• Protected ranking, a method of ranking tennis players coming back from injury

Transportation

• Pakistan Railways (reporting mark PR)
• Philippine Airlines (IATA airline designation PR)
• Park and ride, a type of car park with public transport connections

Other uses

• Parachute rigger, a former rank of the U.S. Navy
• Peppermill Reno, a hotel and casino located in Reno, Nevada
• Permanent Residency, a visa status indicating that a person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country
• Poste restante, a postal service in which mail is held until collected
• Public relations, the professional maintenance of a favorable public image by a company or other organisation or a famous person

See also

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