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Airline Record Locator Number: A confirmation number issued by an airline company when a reservation is booked.

Personal Video Recorder (PVR): Pvrs are digital devices that use a hard drive instead of videotape as the recording medium. Pvrs blend the features of a VCR with the programmability and storage of a computer.

Personal Identification Number (PIN): A code used by a mobile telephone number in conjunction with an SIM card to complete a call.

Passenger name record (PNR) : The official name of one's reservation in a computer reservation system (crs).

Personnel Records: All information pertaining to individual employees, which is collected and maintained by the employer and is essential to the employer for handling various employment-related matters.

Payroll Records: Documentation created and maintained by the employer, which contains information regarding hours worked, salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, vacation/sick pay, contributions to qualified . . . View Full Definition

Pesticide Recordkeeping Program (PRP): Authorized by the FACT Act of 1990, the program requires that private pesticide applicators keep records of the pesticides they use in agricultural production and that the records be surveye . . . View Full Definition

Quantum Number: Indices that label quantized energy states. Quantum numbers are used to describe the state of a confined electron, e. G. An electron in an atom.

Public Records: Records which by law give constructive notice of matters relating to property.

Principal Quantum Number: The quantum number that determines the size and (in hydrogen atoms) the energy of an orbital. N is used to label electron shells. N may take on integer values from 1 to infinity.