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PCR¹

  • /pi si ɑɹ/ US

noun PCRs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of polymerase chain reaction But also: all of the banking transactions you carry out, each phrase you dictate to Alexa, each scan of a UPS package en route to your door, every record of a COVID-19 PCR test in your Labcorp account, every bucket of wings you DoorDashed.
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of protein/creatinine ratio
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of pitch control rod
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of principal component regression
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of primary control rod
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of power control rod

verb PCRs · PCRing · PCRed

  1. To perform a polymerase chain reaction.

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of post-consumer recycled

PCr²

noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of phosphocreatine

Pcr³

noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of phosphocreatine

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: crp, polymerase, transcriptase, acp, rflp, cpp, cpr, roe, psr, mop, dop, rps, multiplex, rep, amplification, amplified

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"PCR." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pcr. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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PCR. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pcr

Chicago

"PCR." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pcr.

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@misc{pcr_2026,
  title = {PCR},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pcr},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}