MRO

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Taung Mro or Marusa or "lankei" variant may refer to:

People

• Medical review officer or medical review office, a term for a position or department at an organization that mandates drug testing
• The Mro People, an indigenous people of Bangladesh

Locations

• Marlborough (disambiguation), some cities named Marlborough use MRO as an abbreviation
• Magdalena Ridge Observatory, a multi-use astronomical observatory near Socorro, New Mexico, United States
• Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in outback Western Australia, one of the Square Kilometre Array core sites
• Hood Aerodrome, near Masterton, New Zealand, which has the IATA airport code, MRO

Companies

• Hokuriku Broadcasting Company, a broadcasting station in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, also known as MRO
• Marathon Oil Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as MRO
• MRO Software, a software company best known for its Maximo maintenance management system, purchased by IBM in August 2006

Organisations

• Midwest Reliability Organization, an electrical grid reliability organization
• Movimiento Revolucionario Oriental, a left-wing political movement in Uruguay
• Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) of Zen Buddhism, an organization of associated temples, practice centers and sitting groups headquartered at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York

Operations and techniques

• Maintenance, repair and operations, also maintenance, repair and overhaul, fixing or maintaining any sort of mechanical, plumbing or electrical equipment
• Main refinancing operations, a technique used by the European Central Bank to control the money supply
• C3 linearization, also called method resolution order, an algorithm used primarily to obtain the order in which methods should be inherited in the presence of multiple inheritance

Science

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (a NASA Mars probe)
• Multidrug resistant organism, a bacterium or other pathogenic organism resisting treatment by several antimicrobial agents, such as antibiotics

Linguistics

• Mro language (ISO 639 code: cmr), a Kukish language of Burma
• Mru language (ISO 639 code: mro), a Sino-Tibetan language of Bangladesh
• Mro (Unicode block), the Unicode block containing characters for writing the Bangladesh Mru language

Other uses

• Mini Racing Online, an arcade-style, freeware online multiplayer racing game
• The ISO 4217 code for the Mauritanian ouguiya, the currency of Mauritania
• MRO-A, MRO-D, MRO-Z; the MRO-series of RPG weapons

See also

• Mr. O (Canadian TV show), 1950s children's show

References