SCR
SCR is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:
Associations, companies, institutions:
- Senior Common Room of a higher education institution, particularly a college at Oxford or Cambridge University
- Supreme Court Reports of Canada
- Swiss Council of Religions
Biology:
- Seabird Colony Register, The JNCC's
Computer, informatics, communication:
- a file extension used for MS Windows screen savers.
- a file extension used for ZX Spectrum screens (256x192) on MS-DOS systems and emulators.
- a screener movie piracy rip, a motion picture film transfer process identifier (in order of quality: CAM / TS / SCR (VHS) / TC / DVDscr / DVDRip).
- Single Cable Router
- Satellite channel router
- State Change Registration, a Fibre Channel term
- Sustainable Cell Rate, Quality of service property of an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) network
- System Clock Reference used inside transport streams which are part of the MPEG family of protocols[1]. Used for Audio Video synchronization.
Defence (history):
- Set Complete Radio or, later, Signal Corps Radio as adopted by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the time of World War One in the late teens of the 20th Century. Examples include: SCR-268, SCR-270, SCR-270-B (the radar set of December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor infame), SCR-584.
Electronics:
Finance:
- Seychelles rupee, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Seychelles
Medicine:
- Skin conductance response, a type of galvanic skin response.
Engineering:
- Selective catalytic reduction, a technology for control of emissions of NOx in furnace flue gas. Uses ammonia (NH3) injected into flue gas to react with NOx in presence of a catalyst to form nitrogen (N2) and water (H2O).