HR, Hr or hr may refer to:
Arts and media
Film and television
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H.R. Pufnstuf'', a children's television series from 1969
* ''HR'', a 2013 television drama starring
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone ( ; born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. She made her film debut in the thriller ''The Crush (1993 film), The Crush'' (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prom ...
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HR, a criminal organisation in the American TV series ''Person of Interest''
Other media
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HR (girl group)
HR is a Japanese idol girl group formed in 2010. Nine of their singles have charted in the weekly Oricon Singles Chart
The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music industry-standard singles popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and ye ...
, Japan
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Hessischer Rundfunk
Hessischer Rundfunk (HR; "Hesse Broadcasting") is the German state of Hesse's public broadcasting, public broadcasting corporation. Headquartered in Frankfurt, it is a member of the national consortium of German public broadcasting corporations, ...
(Hessian Broadcasting), Germany
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Homestar Runner'', an Internet cartoon
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HyperRogue
''HyperRogue'' is an independent video game developed by Zeno Rogue. It is a roguelike inspired by the puzzle game ''Deadly Rooms of Death'' and the art of M. C. Escher, taking place in the hyperbolic plane.
Gameplay
''HyperRogue'' is a tur ...
, a roguelike video game
Fictional characters
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H. R. Wells
Harrison Wells is the name of several characters portrayed by Tom Cavanagh in The CW's Arrowverse franchise, primarily the television series ''The Flash''. The character, created by Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti, and Andrew Kreisberg, is an origin ...
, a character from ''The Flash'' television series
Business and finance
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Human resources
Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include m ...
, personnel
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Human resource management
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...
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Ukrainian hryvnia
The or ( ; uk, гривня , : ''hrn''; sign: ₴; code: UAH) has been the national currency of Ukraine since 2 September 1996. The hryvnia is divided into 100 . It is named after a measure of weight used in medieval Kievan Rus'.
Name Etym ...
, currency
Government and politics
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Human rights
Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...
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of the European Union
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being ...
Languages
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hr (ISO 639-1 code) for the Croatian language
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, a two-letter combination used in some languages
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Reduction of /hr/ to /r/ in Old/Middle English
People
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H.R.
Paul D. Hudson (born February 11, 1956), known professionally as H.R. (Human Rights), is an American musician who leads the hardcore punk band Bad Brains, and is an instrumental figure in the development of the genre. His vocal delivery has b ...
(born 1956), lead singer of American band Bad Brains
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Himesh Reshammiya
Himesh Reshammiya (born 23 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, songwriter, film & music producer and actor in Hindi cinema. He started his career as music director in the film '' Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya'' in 1998 and made ...
(born 1973), Indian singer
Places
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HR (ISO 3166-1 code) for Croatia
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HR postcode area, UK, covering six post towns around Hereford, England
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Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James River, James, Nansemond River, Nansemond and Elizabeth River (Virginia), Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's ...
, a region of south-eastern Virginia
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IN-HR (ISO 3166 code) for Haryana, a state in North India
Religion
* HR, an honorific abbreviating
His Reverence
The Reverend is an style (manner of address), honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and Minister of religion, ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and c ...
or
Her Reverence
The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and church traditions. ''The Reverend'' is correctly ...
Science and technology
Biology and medicine
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HR (gene), encoding protein hairless
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Haemodynamic response
In haemodynamics, the body must respond to physical activities, external temperature, and other factors by homeostatically adjusting its blood flow to deliver nutrients such as oxygen and glucose to stressed tissues and allow them to function. ...
, delivery of blood to tissues
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Heart rate
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Homologous recombination
Homologous recombination is a type of genetic recombination in which genetic information is exchanged between two similar or identical molecules of double-stranded or single-stranded nucleic acids (usually DNA as in cellular organisms but may ...
, in genetics
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Hypersensitive response
Hypersensitive response (HR) is a mechanism used by plants to prevent the spread of infection by microbial pathogens. HR is characterized by the rapid death of cells in the local region surrounding an infection and it serves to restrict the growt ...
, of plants to infection
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Hydroxyethylrutoside, a class of drugs
Computing
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, an HTML element
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.hr, Internet code for Croatia
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HR (software), mathematical theory generator
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Half Rate
Half Rate (HR or GSM-HR or GSM 06.20) is a speech coding system for GSM, developed in the early 1990s.
Since the codec, operating at 5.6 kbit/s, requires half the bandwidth of the Full Rate codec, network capacity for voice traffic is doubled, at ...
(HR or GSM-HR), a speech coding system
Other uses in science and technology
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Hazard ratio
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Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, abbreviated as H–R diagram, HR diagram or HRD, is a scatter plot of stars showing the relationship between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosity, luminosities versus their stellar classifications or eff ...
(H-R, HRD), in astronomy and astrophysics
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High-resolution high-definition (HRHD, HR, HRHDTV or HR.HDTV) image resolution
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Hour
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as of a day and scientifically reckoned between 3,599 and 3,601 seconds, depending on the speed of Earth's rotation. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 ho ...
(hr)
* HR,
Bright Star Catalogue
The Bright Star Catalogue, also known as the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars, Yale Bright Star Catalogue, or just YBS, is a star catalogue that lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter, which is roughly every star visible to the na ...
prefix
Sports
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Home run
In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team. A home run i ...
in baseball
Transportation
* Former Scots
Highland Railway
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Hahn Air, IATA airline code
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Holden HR, a car 1966-1968
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Haryana Roadways State Transport, India
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