PBR

See also: PBr. and pbr

English

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PBR

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Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Alternative forms

• P.B.R., P. B. R.

Proper noun

PBR

1. Initialism of Professional Bull Riders, a sport, circuit, and company for bull riding.
2. Initialism of Pabst Blue Ribbon, a brand of beer.
   • 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 46:

     As he drank the PBR, he tried to keep his hands from shaking.

Noun

PBR (countable and uncountable, plural PBRs)

1. (military, nautical, law enforcement) Initialism of patrol boat, rigid, a type of river patrol boat used by the US Navy during the Vietnam War.
2. (firearms) Initialism of plastic baton round, a type of non-lethal projectile more commonly known as the plastic bullet.
3. (firearms) Initialism of point-blank range.
4. (nuclear physics, engineering) Initialism of pebble-bed reactor.
5. (computing) Initialism of policy-based routing.
6. (computer graphics) Initialism of physically based rendering.
7. (ecology) Initialism of potential biological removal.
8. (botany, agriculture, horticulture) Initialism of plant breeders' rights.

Etymology 2

From the initials of the three theoreticians to conceived of the theory, Pusey (Matthew Pusey), Barrett (Jonathan Barrett), Rudolph (Terry Rudolph).

Proper noun

PBR

1. (physics) Short for Pusey-Barrett-Rudolph theorem

   Synonym: Pusey-Barrett-Rudolph theorem

Further reading

• Pusey–Barrett–Rudolph theorem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plant breeders' rights on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BPR, P.R.B., PRB, RBP