"PRO" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: PROs [plural]
Etymology: Initialism. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} PRO (countable and uncountable, plural PROs)
  1. Initialism of pressure retarded osmosis. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: pressure retarded osmosis
    Sense id: en-PRO-en-noun-M0rbvnBI
  2. (medicine) Initialism of patient-reported outcome. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: patient-reported outcome Categories (topical): Medicine Related terms: RED
    Sense id: en-PRO-en-noun-kN6fneuU Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Symbol

Etymology: From the term pronoun. Etymology templates: {{m|en|pronoun}} pronoun Head templates: {{head|en|symbol|head=}} PRO, {{en-symbol}} PRO
  1. (syntax) A theoretical phonologically null pronoun Categories (topical): Linguistics Coordinate_terms: pro () (english: little pro)
    Sense id: en-PRO-en-symbol-EXWYzzq9 Disambiguation of Linguistics: 15 29 56 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, syntax
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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