Pir

Pir or PIR may refer to:

Religion and history

• Pir (Sufism), a Sufi teacher, spiritual leader
• Pir (Zoroastrianism), a site in Persia, frequently one of the Zoroastrian faith
• Pir of the Britons, legendary king of the Britons
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani, a scholarly work of prosopography of Imperial Rome, published in 1898 (first edition), Berlin 1933 (second edition), and Berlin/New York 2009 (third edition).

Science

• Protein Information Resource, a major protein information database and bioinformatics resource
• Partners in Research, a Canadian charity dedicated to bio-medical research
• Passive infrared sensor, often used to detect movement or presence by infrared emission
• PIR (gene), the gene for a human protein that is a possible transcriptional coregulator
• Polyisocyanurate, a plastic typically produced as a foam for thermal insulation

Information technology

• Peak information rate
• Public Interest Registry, a not-for-profit corporation responsible for managing the .org top-level domain.
• 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
• Parrot intermediate representation, one of the two assembly languages for the Parrot virtual machine

Places

• Pierre Regional Airport, South Dakota, U.S.
• Pir, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Pir, Satu Mare, commune in Satu Mare County, Romania

Motorsport

• Phoenix International Raceway
• Portland International Raceway

Other

• Parachute infantry regiment, a unit of airborne forces
• Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal (Ontario), a former ministry of the Government of Ontario
• The Price Is Right (US game show), a TV gameshow
• Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad
• Performance Index Rating, a statistical formula used in basketball
• Pier 1 Imports, NYSE symbol PIR, a Texas-based retailer specializing in imported home furnishings and decor

See also

• Peer (disambiguation)
• Pirs (disambiguation)

• In India, Pir besdies Sufi leader may also refer to some Hindu religious deity or leader, whom Muslims also worshipped for example Ramdev Pir, Ajepal Dada,etc.