APR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Apr mean? 

• APR (noun)
  The noun APR has 1 sense:

1. the month following March and preceding May

  Familiarity information: APR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following March and preceding May

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Apr; April

Hypernyms ("Apr" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Apr"):

All Fools' day; April Fools'; April Fools' day (the first day of April which is celebrated by playing practical jokes)

April 14; Pan American Day (a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries)

Patriot's Day (the 3rd Monday in April; Massachusetts and Maine celebrate the battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775)

mid-April (the middle part of April)

Holonyms ("Apr" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 Context examples 

Classification is generally based upon motor manifestations of the seizure (e.g., convulsive, nonconvulsive, akinetic, atonic, etc.) or etiology (e.g., idiopathic, cryptogenic, and symptomatic). (From Mayo Clin Proc, 1996 Apr;71(4):405-14)

(Generalized Epilepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

As it celebrated its 41st anniversary Thursday (Apr. 24), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) unveiled the largest genetic repository in Latin America, which can store up to 750,000 seed samples.

(LatAm's largest gene bank unveiled in Brasília, Agência BRASIL)

G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase-Interactor 1: GIT1 is a multidomain protein that is thought to function as an integrator of signaling pathways controlling vesicle trafficking, adhesion and cytoskeletal organization. (from J Cell Sci 2002 Apr 1;115(Pt 7):1497-510)

(G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase-Interactor 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of the brain, spinal cord, and meninges may occur and lead to transient or permanent neurologic deficits (including a POLIOMYELITIS-like presentation); SEIZURES; COMA; and death. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p751; Lancet 1998 Apr 11;351(9109):1094-7)

(Japanese B Encephalitis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

CETEM researcher Marisa Bezerra Monte told Agência Brasil on Monday (Apr. 7) that they have produced a zeolite concentrate (a porous multimineral mix) and changed the surface properties of its particles to enable nutrient exchanges.

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)