Prep

Prep is a short form of "preparedness" or preparation.

Prep may also refer to:

Education

  • College-preparatory school, also called a prep school, or college prep school, or university-preparatory school
    • Preppy or preppie or prep, a subculture in the United States associated with old private Northeastern university-preparatory schools
  • Test preparation or test prep

Science

  • PREP (gene), the gene encoding for prolyl endopeptidase (PE)
  • Prep, abbreviated form for a plasmid preparation (including minipreps and bulk preps) or the DNA prepared by such a method
  • PrEP, acronym for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, the use of prescription drugs to prevent HIV transmission before exposure
  • Prep, abbreviated form for presequence protease, a mitochondrial and chloroplastic protein

Other uses

gollark: Hmm. Apparently service discovery has an XEP number *after* various others. Worrying.
gollark: Which is long and inconvenient versus just saying "yes, this is an osmarkshypotheticalchatprotocolâ„¢-v2.1-capable system".
gollark: There's no particular benefit to it, and it makes it hard/unuseful to say you have a server/client supporting "XMPP" if that might mean a ton of different combinations of modules.
gollark: Putting core features into extensions brings nothing but more complex negotiations and fallbacks, and makes it a bit more annoying to depend on in other features.
gollark: … what 44 things did they do before that?

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