PNR
PNR is the initialism of passenger name record.
PNR is the initialism of point of no return.
PNR is the initialism of National Revolutionary Police Force.
PNR is the initialism of Philippine National Railways.
Meaning of point of no return
Noun
point of no return (plural points of no return)
- The point in an aircraft's flight when there is insufficient fuel to reverse direction and return to the place of origin.
- Synonyms:
- event horizon, PNR, PONR, rubicon, threshold
- The point in any process or sequence of events where some development becomes inevitable.
- After Munich it became daily more evident that Hitler had passed the point of no return. With every burst of news from Europe the inevitability of war became more certain.1959, Roger Burlingame, I Have Known Many Worlds, page 216
Synonyms of PNR
Forms of PNR
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Phrases with PNR
Questions about PNR
- What is PNR the initialism of?
- PNR is the initialism of passenger name record.
Words near PNR in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: PNR (page history and authors); point of no return (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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