The term prior may refer to: *

Prior (ecclesiastical) Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be low ...

, the head of a priory (monastery) *

Prior convictions Antecedents are the life history and previous convictions of a defendant in a criminal case. They are colloquially known as "previous convictions" (or simply "previous") in the United Kingdom and "prior convictions" (or simply "priors") in the Unit ...

, the life history and previous convictions of a suspect or defendant in a criminal case *

Prior probability In Bayesian statistical inference, a prior probability distribution, often simply called the prior, of an uncertain quantity is the probability distribution that would express one's beliefs about this quantity before some evidence is taken into ...

, in Bayesian statistics *

Prior knowledge for pattern recognition Pattern recognition is a very active field of research intimately bound to machine learning. Also known as classification or statistical classification, pattern recognition aims at building a classifier that can determine the class of an input patt ...

Saint Prior Saint Pior (or Prior; 4th century) was an Egyptian monk and hermit in the desert of Scetis, one of the Desert Fathers, and a disciple of Anthony the Great. He lived to a great age. His feast day is 17 June. Monks of Ramsgate account The monks of ...

(4th century), an Egyptian hermit and disciple of Anthony the Great *

Prior (surname) Prior is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alex Prior (born 1992), Russian child prodigy composer * Anthony Prior (born 1970), American football player * Arthur Prior (1914–1969), philosopher and logician * David Prior (disam ...

Prior (Stargate) The Ori are fictional characters in the science fiction television series ''Stargate SG-1''. They are a group of " ascended" beings who use their advanced technology and knowledge of the universe in attempt to trick non-ascended humans into wo ...

, a fictional race in the television series ''Stargate'' *

Prior (brand) Prior is a brand name used by Nortura on its eggs and white meat (mainly chicken, hen and turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, ...

, a Norwegian brand of eggs and white meat *

Prior, Missouri Prior is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States. The community is located on Missouri Route 95 Route 95 is a highway in southern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 32 at Lynchburg in Laclede County. ...

, a community in the United States *

Prior Norge Prior Norge is a defunct Norwegian white meat and egg processing company organised as an agricultural cooperative. The company merged with Gilde Norsk Kjøtt in 2006 to create Nortura. The Prior brand is still used. History The first national un ...

, a defunct Norwegian egg and white meat processing cooperative

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