Pir

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Pir or PIR may refer to:

Information technology

• Parrot intermediate representation, for the Parrot virtual machine
• Peak information rate, a burstable rate set on routers and switches that allow throughput overhead
• Private information retrieval, without revealing what was retrieved
• Public Interest Registry, manages .org Internet domain

Motorsport

• Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Arizona, U.S.
• Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Places

• Pir, East Azerbaijan, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Pir, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Pir, Satu Mare, commune in Satu Mare County, Romania

People

• Pir Roshan (b. 1525), a Pashtun warrior-poet and intellectual

Religion and history

• Pir (Alevism), one of the 12 ranks of Imam in Alevism
• Pir (Sufism), a Sufi teacher or spiritual leader
• Pir (Zoroastrianism), pilgrimage site in Persia, typically Zoroastrian
• Pir of the Britons, legendary king of the Britons
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani, a collection of Latin inscriptions on notable Romans
• Pre-Islamic recent period, an archaeological assemblage in the Persian Gulf

Science

• Partners in Research, Canadian bio-medical research charity
• Passive infrared sensor, detects infrared emission
• PIR (gene), for a human protein that is a possible transcriptional coregulator
• Polyisocyanurate, a plastic used for thermal insulation
• Protein Information Resource, database and bioinformatics resource

Other

• Performance Index Rating, a statistical formula used in basketball
• Philosophy in Review, an academic journal
• Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad, reporting mark
• Parachute Infantry Regiment, airborne infantry unit of the United States Army
• PIR, NYSE symbol for Texas-based retailer Pier 1 Imports
• PIR, IATA code for Pierre Regional Airport, South Dakota, U.S.

See also

• Peer (disambiguation)
• Pirs (disambiguation)