Mir (disambiguation)

Mir (in the Russian language "Мир") means world, peace, sometimes globe or planet.

Mir was a Soviet–Russian space station.
Mir (commune) or Obshchina was the common type of rural community in Imperial Russia
Mir Publishers, a Russian publishing house
Mir (lens), a Soviet photographic lens
MIR (computer), an early Soviet personal computer
Mir (television company) broadcasting programs in Russian
STS Mir, a Russian sailing ship
Mir (payment system), owned by Central Bank of Russia

In other languages Mir may also refer to:

Places

Mir, Belarus, an urban settlement
Mir (Calixto García), a village in Holguín Province, Cuba
Mir, Iran, a village in Alborz Province, Iran
Mir, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
Mir mine, an abandoned open-pit diamond mine in East Siberia
Musiktheater im Revier, a theater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany

People with the name

Mir (title), a title for a ruler
Mir clan, a Kashmiri family line

Surname

Aasmah Mir, Scottish-Pakistani television presenter
Frank Mir, American mixed martial artist, former UFC heavyweight champion
Hamid Mir, Pakistani journalist and a terrorism expert and security analyst
Joaquin Mir Trinxet, modernist Spanish painter
Magín Mir, Spanish footballer
Pedro Mir (1913–2000), poet, laureate of the Dominican Republic
Rafa Mir, Spanish footballer

Given name

Mir Afsar Ali, Indian radio jockey and television anchor
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, Pakistani politician
Mir Kalam, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
Mir Taqi Mir (1723–1810), Urdu poet
Mir of Tidore (c. 1511-1550s), third sultan of Tidore, Maluku Islands

Science and technology

Mid-infrared, infrared radiation of medium wavelength
Micropower Impulse Radar, a radar system developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
microRNA (miRNA / miR), a small non-coding RNA molecule found in cells of eukaryotic organisms
Multiple isomorphous replacement, a technique used in crystallography
Music information retrieval, the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music.

Computing

Mir, a content management system software developed and used by Independent Media Center
Mir (software), a computer display server developed by Canonical
Maximum Information Rate, the maximum bandwidth in broadband wireless

Publishing

Management International Review, a journal
The Mechanics' Institute Review
McGill International Review

Music

Mir (band), a Canadian music group
Mir (South Korean singer), Bang Chul-yong, member of band MBLAQ
Mir (album), a 2011 album by Ott

Organisations

Mir, Russian manufacturer of Ferris wheels and other amusement rides
Military Intelligence Research (MIR), later MD1 (military R&D organisation), UK, WWII

Judaism

Mir yeshiva (Belarus), a former rabbinical school in Mir, in what is now Belarus
Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva
Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem), successor to the Belarus Mir Yeshiva

Transportation

Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, a Japanese railway company
Mir (submersible), a self-propelled Deep Submergence Vehicle
Monastir International Airport (IATA code), in Tunisia

Fiction

Mir, a character in Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
Mir, a fictional place in Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

Other uses

Battle of Mir (disambiguation)
Mail-in rebate, a coupon
MIR, Master of International Relations
mir, ISO 639-3 code for Isthmus Mixe
Meriam language or Mir, Torres Strait Islands, Australia

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