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HR, Hr or hr is an initialism that may refer to:
[edit] Arts and entertainment
[edit] Business and finance
[edit] Government and politics
[edit] People
- H. R. (b. 1956), lead singer of Bad Brains
- Harley Race (b. 1943), retired pro wrestler, current promoter
- Harold Reynolds (b. 1960), former major league baseball player, current commentator
- Henry Rollins (b. 1961), American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, actor, activist and publisher
- Himesh Reshammiya (b. 1973), Indian composer, singer and actor
[edit] Science, technology and engineering
- Half Rate (HR or GSM-HR), a speech coding system for GSM developed in the early 1990s
- Hayati-Roberts link frame convention (HR), a coordinate representation for a robotic device
- Hazard ratio, the effect of an explanatory variable on the hazard or risk of an event
- Heart rate (HR), a measure of the number of heart beats per minute (bpm)
- Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (H-R diagram or HRD, also known as a colour-magnitude diagram or CMD), used in understanding stellar evolution in astronomy and astrophysics
- High-Resolution High-Definition (HRHD, HR, HRHDTV or HR.HDTV), referring to an image resolution derived from high-definition video
- Homologous recombination, in genetics, the process in which genetic material is exchanged between two similar or identical strands of DNA
- hour (hr, although h is more common)
- HR (gene) (Hairless homolog (mouse)), a gene which encodes a protein whose function has been linked to hair growth
- HR (software), a program that automatically forms mathematical theories by searching for sequences of numbers
- Hypersensitive response, a mechanism used by plants to prevent the spread of infection by microbial pathogens
- HR, a star catalogue symbol standing for Harvard observatory, Revised photometry
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- Hydroxyethylrutoside, a class of drugs
[edit] Society
- Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting) (HR), public broadcaster for the German state (Bundesland) of Hesse
- 'HR', abbreviation of 'human remains', a term used by entities such as funeral homes
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[edit] Transportation
- Heritage railway, a term used for a railway which is run as a tourist attraction
- Highland Railway, one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act of 1921
- 'HR', IATA airline designator for Hahn Air
- 'HR', 1960s car model of Australian automaker Holden