Penrose may refer to:
Places
United States
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Penrose, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood
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Penrose, Colorado
Penrose is a census-designated place (CDP) and post office located in and governed by Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Penrose post office has the ZIP Code 81 ...
, a town
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Penrose, Philadelphia, a neighborhood
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Penrose, North Carolina
Penrose is an unincorporated community in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States. Penrose is located on U.S. Route 64 east-northeast of Brevard. Penrose has a post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that p ...
, an unincorporated community
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Penrose, Utah, an unincorporated community
Commonwealth of Nations
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Penrose, Cornwall, a country house (in private ownership) and National Trust estate in west Cornwall, including
Loe Pool
The Loe ( kw, An Logh), also known as Loe Pool, is the largest natural freshwater lake () in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The earliest recorded appearance of this simple name form was in 1337, when it was called "La Loo", but is mentioned as 'the ...
and Bar
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Penrose, New Zealand
Penrose is an industrial suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, at a distance of about nine kilometres, between the suburbs of Oranga and Mount Wellington, and close to the Mangere Inlet, an arm of ...
, a suburb of Auckland
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Penrose, New South Wales (Wingecarribee)
Penrose is a small town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It has a station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
* Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestoc ...
, a small town south-west of Sydney, Australia
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Penrose, New South Wales (Wollongong), a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Other uses
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Penrose Stout, American architect
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Penrose (surname), including a list of people with the name
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Penrose (brand), a brand name
owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc., used only for pickled sausages
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Penrose Medal
The Penrose Medal was created in 1925 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America
The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. ...
, the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America to those who advance the study of geoscience
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The Penrose Annual
''The Penrose Annual'' was a London-based review of graphic arts, printed nearly annually from 1895 to 1982.
''Penrose'' began in 1895 as ''Process Work Yearbook – Penrose's Annual.'' Lund Humphries has printed the publication since 1897 and ...
'', a London-based review of graphic arts (1895–1982)
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Penrose Building, a building of
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...
See also
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Penrhos
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Penrose drain
A Penrose drain is a soft, flexible rubber tube used as a surgical drain, to prevent the buildup of fluid in a surgical site. It belongs to the "passive" type of drain, the other broad type being "active". The Penrose drain is named after Americ ...
, a surgical device placed in a wound to drain fluid
* Topics named after
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus f ...
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Penrose diagram
In theoretical physics, a Penrose diagram (named after mathematical physicist Roger Penrose) is a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime through a conformal treatment of infinity. It is an ext ...
, a two-dimensional diagram delineating spacetime relationships
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Penrose tiling
A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a ''tiling'' is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and ''aperiodic'' means that shifting any tiling with these shapes by any finite distance, without ...
, a nonperiodic infinite tiling of a plane
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Penrose triangle
The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, the impossible tribar, or the impossible triangle, is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot e ...
, an impossible geometry object
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Penrose stairs
The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 and later independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. A variation ...
, an impossible geometry object
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Moore–Penrose inverse
In mathematics, and in particular linear algebra, the Moore–Penrose inverse of a matrix is the most widely known generalization of the inverse matrix. It was independently described by E. H. Moore in 1920, Arne Bjerhammar in 1951, and Roge ...
, a generalization of the inverse matrix
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