Peer
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Peer may refer to:
- People who are equal in such respects as age, education or social class etc., as in peer groupPeer groupA peer group is a social group consisting of humans. Peer groups are an informal primary group of people who share a similar or equal status and who are usually of roughly the same age, tended to travel around and interact within the social aggregate Members of a particular peer group often have...
- A member of the peeragePeerage (disambiguation)Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom.Peerage may also refer to:* Peerage Act 1963* Jacobite Peerage* Hereditary peer* Life Peer- British Isles :* Peerage of England** Welsh peers* Peerage of Ireland...
, a system of honours or nobility in various countries - A variant of Peter (name) in Scandinavic and Dutch languages
- Partnership for European Environmental ResearchPartnership for European Environmental ResearchPartnership for European Environmental Research is a network of seven large European environmental research centres, created in 2001.One of the aims of PEER is to foster innovative interdisciplinary research and cross-cutting approaches in support of national and EU policy-makers, industry and...
, a network of seven large European environmental research centres - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an organization of anonymous public employees promoting environmental responsibility
- Partnership for Economics Education and Research
- Peer, BelgiumPeer, BelgiumPeer is a municipality located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium. On January 1, 2006 Peer had a total population of 15,810. The total area is 86.95 km² which gives a population density of 182 inhabitants per km²....
- Peer GyntPeer GyntPeer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt. It is the most widely performed Norwegian play. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones"...
, a play; and character by Henrik Ibsen - PeerMade.info, an organization in India working on Nature Conservation
- Peer Leadership ProgramPeer Leadership ProgramThe Peer Leadership Program is an organization, most often run in public high schools and four-year Universities, that looks upon upperclassmen to help ease the transition to the underclassman's respective freshmen year. The Peer Program is considered to stress communal interaction and social insight...
, an organization that promotes team building and easing school transitions - Peer-to-peerPeer-to-peerPeer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
computer network, (a participant of), in which participants act as both client and server - a network entity with which one performs peeringPeeringIn computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...
operations - Shahar Pe'erShahar Pe'erShahar Pe'er is an Israeli professional tennis player. Her career-high singles ranking is World No. 11, which she achieved on January 31, 2011 ....
, an Israeli professional tennis player - Peer van der Burgh Dutch accordion player and singer