PRN

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PRN may be a three-letter acronym or abbreviation for:

  • Physician Renaissance Network, a resource for doctors with non-clinical careers and interests
  • Packaging Recovery Note, linked to UK recycling responsibilities
  • El Partido da Reconstrução Nacional (National Reconstruction Party), a political party in Brazil that changed its name to the Christian Labour Party
  • Partidul Reconcilierii Nationale (Party of National Reconciliation), the political party of Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern, aspirant to both the monarchy and the presidency of Romania
  • Parton railway station, a train station serving the village of Parton in Cumbria, England
  • Peace River North, in the Peace River Valley, British Columbia, Canada
  • Performance Racing Network, a radio network that broadcasts NASCAR races
  • Pertactin, a highly immunogenic virulence factor of a bacterium
  • Practicing Registered Nurse
  • Premiere Radio Networks, an American radio network
  • PRiNter, a DOS reference used to redirect output to a printer
  • the IATA airport code for Priština International Airport
  • Pro re nata, a latin medical term used to mean "as the situation arises" / "take as needed"
  • Pronoun, a part of speech
  • Pseudorandom noise, a signal similar to noise which satisfies one or more of the standard tests for statistical randomness
  • Pseudorandom number, one of a sequence of numbers generated by a deterministic algorithm, where the sequence satisfies one or more of the standard tests for statistical randomness. Also used as an identifier for satellites (e.g. PRN 120 = Inmarsat-3 AOR-E), where the "PRN" is an index to the assigned pseudorandom number sequence used to encode the satellite transmissions