AMR

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Contents 1 Companies 2 Names 3 Technology 4 Military 5 Other uses

Amr or AMR may refer to:

[edit] Companies

• AMR Corporation, parent company of American Airlines
• American Medical Response, a private ambulance operator
• Arcata and Mad River Railroad, from its AAR reporting mark
• AMR International, a strategic marketing/management consultancy
• AMR Research, a consulting firm focused on supply chain, enterprise-wide manufacturing applications

[edit] Names

• Amhar, a son of legendary King Arthur
• Amr (name), an Arabic male given name or, specifically:
  • Amr ibn Kulthum (died 584), leader of the Taghlab tribe
  • Amr ibn Hishām (died 624), Meccan leader also known as Abu Jahl
  • Amr ibn Abd al-Wud (died 627), champion of Quraish
  • Amr ibn al-Aas (c.553–664), military commander
  • Amr ibn Jarmouz, (fl. 656), killer of Talha
  • Amr Ibn Ubayd (died 761), Mu'tazili leader
  • Amr Bey, Egyptian squash player
  • Amr Moussa (born 1936), secretary-general of the League of Arab States
  • Amr Diab (born 1961), Egyptian musician
  • Amr Khaled (born 1967), Egyptian activist and preacher
  • Amr Shabana (born 1979), Egyptian squash player
  • Amr Adib, Egyptian television presenter
• Banu Amr, an Arabic tribe

[edit] Technology

• Adaptive mesh refinement in numerical simulations
• Adaptive Multi-Rate, a lossy digital speech compression scheme (and codec); 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Other uses

• Advanced meat recovery, a slaughterhouse process by which residual meat trimmings are extracted from bones and other carcass materials.
• Amarakaeri, an indigenous American language, from its ISO 639 language code
• Amersham station, from its National Rail Code