MAR

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Mar may refer to:

• March, the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar
• Mar, an ancient division of Scotland
• MAR, the ISO code for Morocco
• MAR, the abbreviation for Modified Aspect Ratio. See Aspect ratio (image).
• Mar,ܡܪܝ meaning father in Syriac. A title of address for prelates of the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
• It can also be the title of a Saint, for example "Mar Toma" or "Mar Thoma" = Saint Thomas.
• Also derived from the same Aramaic word, Mar was the title of the Exilarch (Reish Galuta), the head of the Jewish Community in Babylon which enjoyed considerable authonomy.
• Derived from the above, Mar in modern Hebrew as spoken in Israel is the equivavalent of "Mr.". Though there is no etymological connection, similarity with the English term helped its spread.
• MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance, a popular manga series and television anime created by Nobuyuki Anzai

The acronym MAR may refer to:

• Mission Analysis Room, an area where spacecraft engineers conduct routine trending and anomaly investigation
• Matrix attachment regions are sequences that are important to chromosomal structure in eukaryotes
• Multiple Access Return, a TDRSS data service
• Märchen Awakens Romance, a manga series
• Memory Address Register, a hardware register used to keep the address of a memory location in which data are to be written or read