Pir
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pir may refer to:
- Pir (Sufism), a Sufi teacher, spiritual leader
- Pir (Pilgrimage Site), a site in Persia, frequently one of the Zoroastrian faith
- Pir of the Britons, legendary king of the Britons
- Pir, Satu Mare, commune in Satu Mare County, Romania
PIR may refer to:
In science:
- Protein Information Resource, a major protein information database and bioinformatics resource
- Partners in Research, a Canadian charity dedicated to bio-medical research
- Parrot Intermediate Representation, part of Parrot virtual machine
- Passive infrared sensor, an often used part of a security system
- Polyisocyanurate, a plastic typically produced as a foam for thermal insulation
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani, an index of all persons mentioned in ancient literature from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire
- Peak Information Rate
- Public Interest Registry, a not-for-profit corporation responsible for managing the .org top-level domain.
- Public Information Research, a non-profit corporation that maintains Namebase, an online database of citations to influential people
- Private information retrieval, a protocol that allows a user to retrieve an item from a server in possession of a database without revealing which item she is retrieving
In transportation:
Other:
- Parachute Infantry Regiment
- Post-Implementation Review
- Public Infrastructure Renewal, a ministry of the Government of Ontario
- The Price Is Right (US game show)