Prep
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Prep is a short form of "preparedness" or preparation.
Prep may also refer to:
Education
- College-preparatory school, also called a prep school, or college prep school, or university-preparatory school
- Preppy or preppie or prep, a subculture in the United States associated with old private Northeastern university-preparatory schools
- Test preparation or test prep
Science
- PREP (gene), the gene encoding for prolyl endopeptidase (PE)
- Prep, abbreviated form for a plasmid preparation (including minipreps and bulk preps) or the DNA prepared by such a method
- PrEP, acronym for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, the use of prescription drugs to prevent HIV transmission before exposure
- Prep, abbreviated form for presequence protease, a mitochondrial and chloroplastic protein
Other uses
- Prep, a novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
- P-rep, a statistical value of the probability of replicating an observed effect
- PReP, the PowerPC Reference Platform
- Preparative, a NATO signal flag
- The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, a U.S. law enacted in 2005
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