Penrose may refer to:
Places
United States
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Penrose, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood
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Penrose, Colorado, 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
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, a suburb of Auckland
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Penrose, New South Wales (Wingecarribee), 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, 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 top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America to those who advance the study of geoscience
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The Penrose Annual'', 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 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, a two-dimensional diagram delineating spacetime relationships
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Penrose tiling, a nonperiodic infinite tiling of a plane
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Penrose triangle, an impossible geometry object
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Penrose stairs, an impossible geometry object
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Moore–Penrose inverse, a generalization of the inverse matrix
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