Peer

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Peer may refer to:

In society

• An equal in age, education, or social class, as in peer group or social peer-to-peer processes
• A member of the peerage, a system of honours or nobility in various countries

Organizations

• Partnership for European Environmental Research, a network of seven European environmental research centres
• Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an organization of anonymous public employees promoting environmental responsibility
• Peer Leadership Program, an organization that promotes team building and easing school transitions

Other uses

• Peer, Belgium
• Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen (and its title character)
• A variant of the name Peter in Scandinavian and Dutch languages
• A network entity with which one performs peering operations
• Shahar Pe'er, an Israeli professional tennis player

See also

• Pir (Sufism) (also spelled Peer)
• Pier (disambiguation)
• Pir (disambiguation)
• Peer-to-peer, a kind of computer network in which participants act as both client and server
• Peer review, the process within academia for assessing the written work of an academic so that it may be considered for publication
• Peering, in computer networks
• Peers, a surname and place name