Pro

Lore & Background

Pro, PRO or variants thereof might also refer to: People: Miguel Pro (1891–1927), Mexican priest; Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter; Mlungisi Mdluli (born 1980), South African retired footballer; Derek Minor (born 1984), American Christian rapper, formerly known as PRo; Mike Awesome (1965–2007), a.k.a. The Pro, American wrestler Michael Lee Alfonso; Pro Wells, American football player. Occupations: Prostitute, slang abbreviation; Public relations officer.

Linguistics: PRO (linguistics) ("big PRO"); pro (linguistics) ("little pro"). Political parties: (Republican Proposal), Argentina; (Progressive Party), Chile; (Law, Respect, Expertise), Czech Republic; (Party for a Rule of Law Offensive), former German party; (The Progressives), Latvia; 2020–2023 name of the Modern Democratic Party in Moldova; Progressief Nederland (Progressive Netherlands), merger of Labour Party and GroenLinks in the Netherlands; (PRO Romania); (Proposition), Ukraine; (Pro-movement), Germany.

Organizations: the Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation; Performance rights organisation; Producer Responsibility Organisation; Professional Referee Organization, for North American soccer; Provincial Research Organization, Canadian initiatives; Public Record Office; Public Record Office - of Northern Ireland; Public Record Office Victoria; Public.Resource.Org, public domain publisher. Science and technology: PRO (category theory), in mathematics; .pro, a top-level Internet domain; pro-, a prefix used in taxonomy; Patient-reported outcome, in clinical trials; Pressure-retarded osmosis; Pro (or P), an abbreviation for proline, an amino acid; Protein Ontology, a Protein Information Resource database.

Entertainment: Pasadena Roof Orchestra, England; The Pro (TV series), with Rob Lowe; The Pro (comics). Other uses: SIG Pro, a pistol series; Public Record Office, UK; Pro TV, Romania.

Did You Know?

• Pro Guitar controllers were built in partnership with established guitar manufacturers, giving players a real six-string instrument rather than a plastic replica.
• In Pro Guitar, the game tracks all six strings independently, so playing an open E on the low string versus a fretted E on another string are scored as different events.
• Pro mode was absent from Rock Band 4 (2015), leaving the dedicated Pro Guitar and Pro Drum hardware without a first-party game to support them.