per'cipience

Per

[pur; unstressed per]

Per or PER can be:

a common first name in Scandinavia. A form of Peter which means "rock" or "cliff" in Latin.
Per (storm), a storm in Sweden, in January 2007.
the IOC country code for Peru.
the IATA code for Perth Airport in Western Australia.
PE ratio, price-to-earnings ratio, used in finance.
Player Efficiency Rating, a basketball statistic.
Partial equivalence relation.
Polarization extinction ratio, used in optics and telecommunications.
Per, the gender-neutral possessive pronoun used by the inhabitants of the future feminist and anarchist utopia in Marge Piercy's novel Woman on the Edge of Time.
Packed Encoding Rules, a set of ASN.1 encoding rules for formatting data in binary.
Protein efficiency ratio, a method used for evaluating the quality of protein in food.
the official abbreviation of the Western Australian Herbarium
an acronym for Portable Employer of Record
Perseus (constellation) (standard astronomical abbreviation)
the stock symbol for Perot Systems Corporation
Period (gene)
Packet Error Ratio, the ratio in data packet based communication systems between valid and invalid packets.
Pér, a village in Hungary
Physics Education Research
Per (card game), a card game

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