SCR

¹ American

Electronics.

silicon-controlled rectifier.

scr. ² American

abbreviation

scruple.

SCR ¹ British

abbreviation

(in British universities) senior common room
silicon controlled rectifier

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scr. ² British

abbreviation

scruple (unit of weight)

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PSR focuses on limiting losses, but SCR is about income.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

PSR was about a club's balance sheet of all revenues over a three-year period, while SCR is just about team costs on a seasonal basis.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

Nine of the league's 20 clubs already have to comply with Uefa's SCR as a result of qualifying for Europe.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

“Promised matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts allowed our organization to secure the resources necessary to produce this work,” SCR wrote in a statement about “The Staircase” by Noa Gardner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

At nine-thirty in the morning twelve student radar operators and three instructors were tracking nine jets on an SCR 584 radar set when two UFO targets appeared on the scope.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.

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