Penrose may refer to:
Places
United States
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Penrose, Arlington, Virginia Penrose is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia, USA, located roughly three miles from Washington, D.C. It is bordered by Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall to the east, Columbia Pike to the south, S. Walter Reed Drive and S. Fillmore St. to t ...
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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 812 ...
, a town
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Penrose, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Route 291 (PA 291) is an east–west route in Pennsylvania that runs from U.S. Route 13 (US 13) and US 13 Business (US 13 Bus.) in Trainer, Delaware County, east to Interstate 76 (I-76) in South Philadelphia near the Walt Whit ...
, 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
Penrose is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated farming community in eastern Box Elder County, Utah, Box Elder County, Utah, United States.
Description
Penrose is located along the last of Utah State Route 102, approximately south of Thatc ...
, an unincorporated community
Commonwealth of Nations
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Penrose, Cornwall
Penrose ( Cornish: Penros) is a house (in private ownership) and National Trust estate amounting to 1536 acres, east of Porthleven and in the civil parish of Sithney, Cornwall, England. The estate includes Loe Pool and Loe Bar which was given i ...
, a country house (in private ownership) and National Trust estate in west Cornwall, including
Loe Pool 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, New Zealand, Mount Wellington, and close to ...
, 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 on the Main Southern railway line served by NSW TrainLink's Southern Highlands Line
The Southern Highlands Line is ...
, a small town south-west of Sydney, Australia
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Penrose, New South Wales (Wollongong)
The City of Wollongong is a local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is situated adjacent to the Tasman Sea, the Princes Motorway and the Illawarra railway line.
Located south of Sydney central busi ...
, a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Other uses
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Penrose Stout
Penrose Stout (1887–1934) was an American architect, best known for designing many Westchester County, New York residences and buildings. Among his many notable designs in Bronxville, New York are Merestone Terrace (1924), Brooklands (1927) ...
, American architect
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Penrose (surname) Penrose is a Cornish-language surname. The surname Penrose is derived from one of the places called Penrose in England and Wales: these are found in ten parishes in Cornwall (including Penrose near Porthleven), several times in Wales and once in He ...
, including a list of people with the name
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Penrose (brand) Penrose may refer to:
Places United States
* Penrose, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood
* Penrose, Colorado, a town
* Penrose, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood
* Penrose, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood
* Penrose, North Carolina ...
, 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. Originally created as the Geological Society of America Medal it was soon renamed the Penrose Medal by popular assent of t ...
, 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 Penrhos is derived from the Welsh words ''pen'' ("head" or "top") and ''rhos'' ("moorland"). It may refer to:
; Places
*Penrhos, Anglesey, a village in Wales
** Penrhos Country Park (AKA Penrhos Coastal Park), a country park near Penrhos, Anglesey
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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 Ameri ...
, 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 fello ...
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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 r ...
, 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 o ...
, 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 Roger Pe ...
, a generalization of the inverse matrix
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