Prior

The term prior may refer to: Prior (ecclesiastical), the head of a priory (monastery) Prior convictions, the life history and previous convictions of a suspect or defendant in a criminal case Prior probability, in Bayesian statistics Prior knowledge for pattern recognition Saint Prior (4th century), an Egyptian hermit and disciple of Anthony the Great Prior (surname) Prior (Stargate), a fictional race in the television series Stargate Prior (brand), a Norwegian brand of eggs and white meat Prior, Missouri, a community in the United States Prior Norge, a defunct Norwegian egg and white meat processing cooperative

== See also== A priori and a posteriori, two kinds of logical inference