Per Explained

Per is a Latin preposition which means "through" or "for each", as in per capita.

Per or PER may also refer to:

Places

IOC country code for Peru
Pér, a village in Hungary
Chapman code for Perthshire, historic county in Scotland

Math and statistics

Rate (mathematics), ratio between quantities in different units, described with the word "per"
Price–earnings ratio, in finance, a measure of growth in earnings
Player efficiency rating, a measure of basketball player performance
Partial equivalence relation, class of relations that are symmetric and transitive
Physics education research

Science

Perseus (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
Period (gene) or per that regulates the biological clock and its corresponding protein PER
Protein efficiency ratio, of food
PER or peregrinibacteria, a candidate bacterial phylum

Media and entertainment

PeR (band), a Latvian pop band
Per (film), a 1975 Danish film

Transport

IATA code for Perth Airport in Western Australia
National Rail station code for Penrhiwceiber railway station, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

Other

Per (given name), a Scandinavian form of Peter
Per (storm), a storm in Sweden, in January 2007
Packed Encoding Rules, in computing, an ASN.1 wire format
Per sign

See also