The term prior may refer to: *

Prior (ecclesiastical) Prior (or prioress) is an Ecclesiology, ecclesiastical Title#Ecclesiastical titles (Christian), title for a Superior (hierarchy), superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier gener ...

, 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" in the United States and Austral ...

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

Prior probability A prior probability distribution of an uncertain quantity, simply called the prior, is its assumed probability distribution before some evidence is taken into account. For example, the prior could be the probability distribution representing the ...

, 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 ...

(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 * Alfredo Prior (1952–2024), Argentine painter, writer, performer, and musician * Anthony Prior (born 1970), American footbal ...

* Prior (''Stargate''), 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, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called Ea ...

, a Norwegian brand of eggs and white meat *

Prior, Missouri Prior is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List ...

, 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 nati ...

, a defunct Norwegian egg and white meat processing cooperative

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