Amr or AMR may refer to:

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

AMR Corporation NYSE: AMR is a Fort Worth, Texas-based holding company created in 1982 as part of a reorganization of American Airlines. ... American Medical Response, Inc. ... The Arcata and Mad River Railroad, (AAR reporting mark AMR), was affectionately known as the Annie and Mary. AMRs predecessor, the Union Wharf and Plank Walk Company was incorporated on December 15, 1854 to provide access over the mud flats near the town of Union (later Arcata) to ocean...

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

Amhar (also called Amr, Amir, or Anir) is a son of King Arthur mentioned in an appendix to the Historia Britonum, killed by his own father in an unrecorded conflict and buried in Ercing (Archenfield in Herefordshire). ... Amr (Arabic: عمرو) is an Arabic name. ... Amr ibn Kulthum Ibn Malik Ibn A`tab Abu Al-Aswad al-Taghlibi (... - 584), from the tribe of Taghlib, was born in Rabe`aa, north of the Arabian-Lands. ... Amr ibn Hishām (d. ... Amr ibn Abd al-Wud (or Amr bin Abdu Wud or ˤAmr ibn ˤAbdÄ« l-Widd al-ˤAmrÄ«) was a champion of Quraish, killed by Ali in the battle of the trench. ... Amr ibn al-Ä€s (Arabic: عمرو بن العاص) (d. ... Amr ibn Jarmouz is the man that killed the famous Muslim Sahaba General Zubayr ibn al-Awwam shortly after the Battle of the Camel, while Zubayr was praying [1]. References ^ anwary-islam. ... Amr Ibn Ubayd ibn Bāb (d. ... Abedel Fattah Amr, better known as F.D. Amr Bey, or simply Amr Bey, was a squash player from Egypt. ... Amr Moussa Amr Moussa (Arabic: عمرو موسى, (born 1936) is an Egyptian diplomat and the current Arab League secretary-general, appointed in May 2001. ... Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Aziz Diab (Arabic:عمرو عبد الباسط عبد العزيز دياب) is an Egyptian musician, born on October 11, 1961 in Port Said, Egypt. ... Amr Khaled, Islamic Preacher Amr Khaled (Arabic: عمرو خالد ) is a young Muslim Egyptian preacher. ... Country: Egypt Residence: Cairo, Egypt Height: 1. ... Amr Adib (also spelled Adeeb) (Arabic: عمرو أديب) is an Egyptian television presenter and interviewer. ... Banu Amr bin Auf are an Arabian tribe in Quba, on the outskirts of Medina. ...

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

In numerical analysis, central to any Eulerian method is the manner in which it discretizes the continuous domain of interest into a grid of many individual elements. ... Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) is an audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding. ... A Codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. ... Adaptive Multi Rate - WideBand or AMR-WB is a speech coding standard developed after the AMR using same technology like ACELP. The codec provides excellent speech quality due to wider speech bandwidth of 50 - 7000 Hz compared to narrowband speech codecs which in general are optimized for POTS wireline quality... AMR-WB+ is an extension of AMR-WB. It adds support for stereo signals and higher sampling rates. ... Magnetoresistance is the property of some materials to change the value of their electrical resistance when an external magnetic field is applied to them. ... AMR (ATi Multi-Rendering) is a three year old (as of 2005) technology which enables a single computer to use more than one video processor. ... The audio/modem riser, also known as an AMR slot, is a special short expansion slot on the motherboard of a personal computer. ... Automatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting data from water meter or energy metering devices (water, gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing and/or analyzing. ...

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

The AMR 33 is a light French tank, used in WWII. To counter the threat posed by the massive Soviet arms build-up since 1928, the year Stalin took power, the French government in 1931 planned the transformation of a part of the cavalry into a mechanized projection force capable... The AMR 35 is a French light tank used in WWII. Development of Renault ZT and Renault YS While his AMR 33 was not yet being delivered to the French army, Louis Renault used two production vehicles to improve the type. ... An anti-materiel rifle is a rifle that is designed for use against military equipment (Matériel) rather than against other combatants (anti-personnel). Generally speaking, they are large-caliber rifles chambered for a powerful cartridge. ...

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

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