PCR or pcr may refer to:
Science
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Phosphocreatine, a phosphorylated creatine molecule
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Principal component regression
In statistics, principal component regression (PCR) is a regression analysis technique that is based on principal component analysis (PCA). More specifically, PCR is used for estimating the unknown regression coefficients in a standard linear regr ...
, a statistical technique
Medicine
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Polymerase chain reaction
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to rapidly make millions to billions of copies (complete or partial) of a specific DNA sample, allowing scientists to take a very small sample of DNA and amplify it (or a part of it) ...
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COVID-19 testing, often performed using the polymerase chain reaction method
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Protein/creatinine ratio, in urine
* Pathologic complete response (pCR), in
neoadjuvant therapy
Neoadjuvant therapy is the administration of therapeutic agents before a main treatment. One example is neoadjuvant hormone therapy prior to radical radiotherapy for adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Neoadjuvant therapy aims to reduce the size or ...
Technology
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Passport Carrier Release Passport Carrier Release (PCR) is a version of the Passport Switch (now Multiservice Switch) software designed to run in telecommunications carrier environments. It was formerly developed by Nortel. After the sale in 2009 of most Nortel's assets, th ...
, telecommunications software
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Peak cell rate, on ATM networks
* Platform Configuration Register, a
Trusted Platform Module
Trusted Platform Module (TPM, also known as ISO/IEC 11889) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, a dedicated microcontroller designed to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys. The term can also refer to a ...
component
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Program clock reference, in MPEG transport streams
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Processor Control Region, a Windows data structure
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XM PCR, a satellite receiver
Political parties
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Parti Communiste Réunionnais'' or Communist Party of Réunion
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Partidul Comunist Român'' or Romanian Communist Party
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Partido Comunista Revolucionário
The Revolutionary Communist Party ( pt, Partido Comunista Revolucionário) is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Brazil with strong Stalinist tendencies. Originally formed in 1966 after a split with the Communist Party of Bra ...
'' or Revolutionary Communist Party
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Partido Cívico Renovador'' or Civic Renovation Party, Dominican Republic
Other uses
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Put/call ratio, in finance
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Amdo Tibetan
Amdo Tibetan (; also called ''Am kä'') is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo (now mostly in Qinghai, some in Ngawa and Gannan). It has two dialects, the farmer dialect and the nomad dialect.
Amdo is one of the three branches of traditional c ...
(ISO 639 code pcr), a language
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Germán Olano Airport (IATA code PCR), Colombia
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Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between Peoples, Palestine
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Pancritical rationalism, a development of critical rationalism and panrationalism
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Paul Cruickshank Racing
Paul Cruickshank Racing was an Australian motor racing team that competed in several Sports Car and Touring Car categories.
History
While new to the championship in 2006, Cruickshank has run several cars in the Development V8 Supercar series ...
, an Australian motor racing team
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Police control room, an emergency control centre
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Practical Chinese Reader'', a textbook
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Production control room
The production control room (PCR) or studio control room (SCR) is the place in a television studio in which the composition of the outgoing program takes place.
The production control room is occasionally also called an SCR or a gallerythe latte ...
, of a television studio
See also
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Partido Comunista Revolucionario (disambiguation)
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