Pre or PRE may refer to:
Places
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Preston railway station
Preston railway station in Preston, Lancashire, England, is an interchange railway station on the West Coast Main Line, half-way between London Euston and Glasgow Central (206 miles from London Euston, 194 miles from Glasgow Central). It is s ...
, UK National Rail code PRE
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Prince Edward station
Prince Edward is a station of the MTR rapid transit system in Hong Kong. It is located in Mong Kok, Kowloon, under the intersection of Nathan Road and Prince Edward Road West. The station is named after this road.
History
As Prince Edward wa ...
, on Hong Kong's MTR
People
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Steve Prefontaine
Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was an American long-distance runner who from 1973 to 1975 set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, and ...
(1951–1975), an American runner nicknamed "Pre"
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Pre (band)
Pre, often written as PRE, is a British noise rock band, releasing music on the labels Skin Graft Records and Lovepump United. It is based in London and was formed around 2005. Pre includes former members of Todd (band), Todd and Seafood (band) ...
, British band
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Public Radio East
Public Radio East is the National Public Radio member regional network for northeastern North Carolina. It is a service of Craven Community College in New Bern, with studios in Barker Hall on the college's campus.
The network's original stati ...
, regional network for NPR
Technology
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HTML element
An HTML element is a type of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) document component, one of several types of HTML nodes (there are also text nodes, comment nodes and others). The first used version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993 ...
for pre-formatted text
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Microphone preamplifier
The term microphone preamplifier can either refer to the electronic circuitry within a microphone, or to a separate device or circuit that the microphone is connected to. In either instance, the purpose of the microphone preamplifier is the same.
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Palm Pre
The Palm Pre , styled as palm prē, is a multitasking smartphone that was designed and marketed by Palm with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The smartphone was the first to use Palm's Linux-based mobile operating system, webOS. The ...
, a smartphone
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Partial redundancy elimination
In compiler theory, partial redundancy elimination (PRE) is a compiler optimization that eliminates expressions that are redundant on some but not necessarily all paths through a program. PRE is a form of common subexpression elimination.
An exp ...
, computer compiler optimization
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Personal Rescue Enclosure
The personal rescue enclosure (PRE), or "rescue ball", was a device for transporting astronauts from one Space Shuttle to another in case of an emergency. It was produced as a prototype but never flew on any missions.
The ball was in diameter an ...
, for spacecraft
Other uses
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Andalusian horse
The Andalusian, also known as the Pure Spanish Horse or PRE (Spanish language literally translates to “Spanish pure breed”. This name is sometimes capitalized when used in English-language publications, but is all lower-case in Spanish, wh ...
or ''Pura Raza Española''
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Proportionate reduction of error Proportionate reduction of error (PRE) is the gain in precision of predicting dependent variable y from knowing the independent variable x (or a collection of multiple variables). It is a goodness of fit
The goodness of fit of a statistical model ...
, in statistics
See also
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