AMR

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AMR, a three-letter abbreviation, may refer to:

Companies

• AMR Corporation, parent company of American Airlines
• American Medical Response, a private ambulance operator
• Arcata and Mad River RailroadAMR, the AAR reporting mark of Arcata and Mad River Railroad
• AMR Research, a consulting firm focused on supply chain, enterprise-wide manufacturing applications

Names

• Amr, an Arabic male given name
• Amr (or Amhar), a son of legendary King Arthur

Technology

• Adaptive mesh refinement in numerical simulations
• Adaptive Multi-Rate, a lossy digital speech compression scheme; also see AMR-WB and AMR-WB+
• Anisotropic magnetoresistance
• ATI Multi Rendering, a proprietary video hardware technology
• Audio/modem riser
• Automatic meter reading, to automatically collect data from energy or water meters and transfer it to a central database

Military

• AMR 33, a French light tank
• AMR 35, a French light tank
• Anti-materiel rifle, a large-calibre rifle capable of piercing thick armor

Other uses

• Advanced meat recovery, a slaughterhouse process by which residual meat trimmings are extracted from bones and other carcass materials.
• AMR, the language code for Amarakaeri
• AMR, the National Rail code for Amersham Station