Per

Look up PER, Per, per, or per- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita.

Per or PER may also refer to:

Places

  • IOC country code for Peru
  • Pér, a village in Hungary
  • Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland

Math and statistics

  • Rate (mathematics), ratio between quantities in different units, described with the word "per"
  • Price–earnings ratio, in finance, a measure of growth in earnings
  • Player efficiency rating, a measure of basketball player performance
  • Partial equivalence relation, class of relations that are symmetric and transitive
  • Physics education research

Science

  • Perseus (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
  • Period (gene) or per that regulates the biological clock and its corresponding protein PER
  • Protein efficiency ratio, of food
  • PER or peregrinibacteria, a candidate bacterial phylum

Media and entertainment

  • PeR (band), a Latvian pop band
  • Per (film), a 1975 Danish film

Transport

  • IATA code for Perth Airport in Western Australia
  • National Rail station code for Penrhiwceiber railway station, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

Other

  • Per (given name), a Scandinavian form of Peter
  • Per (storm), a storm in Sweden, in January 2007
  • Packed Encoding Rules, in computing, an ASN.1 wire format
  • Per sign

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Per
  • All pages with titles containing Per
  • Perr (disambiguation)
  • Pers (disambiguation)
  • Purr (disambiguation)
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