Mir (disambiguation)
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Mir (Russian 'peace') was a space station launched by the Soviet Union and inherited by the Russian Federation.
Mir or MIR may also refer to:
People
- Mir (title), a title for certain traditional oriental rulers, from Amir/Emir
- Mir (tribe), a tribe in the Punjab province of Pakistan
- Family name
- 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 Taqi Mir (1723–1810), Urdu poet
- Honorific
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi, former prime minister of Iran
Places
In Europe :
- Mir, Belarus, an urban settlement
- Musiktheater im Revier, a theater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
In Asia :
- 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
Culture
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
Music
- Mir (band), a Canadian music group
- Mir (South Korean singer), the stage name for Bang Chul-yong, member of South Korean boy band MBLAQ
- Mir (album), a 2011 album by Ott
Publishing
- Mir Publishers, a Russian publishing house
- Management International Review, an economical journal dealing with aspects of international management
- The Mechanics' Institute Review
- McGill International Review
Judaic education
- Mir yeshiva (Belarus), the original Mir Yeshiva, a rabbinical school in what is now Mir, Belarus
- Mir yeshiva (Brooklyn), a rabbinical school in New York, successor to the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus
- Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem), a rabbinical school in Jerusalem, successor to the Mir Yeshiva in Belarus
Science and technology
- Mir (lens), a Soviet photographic lens
- 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
- Mir, a former power transmission system; see Albertirsa–Zakhidnoukrainska–Vinnytsia powerline
Computing
- Mir (software), a computer display server developed by Canonical
- MIR (computer), an early Soviet personal computer
- Maximum Information Rate, the maximum bandwidth in broadband wireless
- Moving Image Retoucher, a software tool for video and movie repair
Transportation
- Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, a Japanese railway company
- STS Mir, a Russian sailing ship
- Mir (submersible), a self-propelled Deep Submergence Vehicle
- Monastir International Airport (IATA code), in Tunisia
Other Uses
- Mir, Russian manufacturer of ferris wheels and other amusement rides
- Obshchina or Mir, a type of rural community in Imperial Russia
- mir, ISO 639-3 code for Isthmus Mixe
- Mir, an alternative name of the Meriam language, a Papuan language spoken in the Torres Straight Islands, Australia
- Mir, a Russian national payment card; see payment card number
- Mail-in rebate, a coupon for consumers to use to receive a refund
- Middle Irish, an historical language
- Music information retrieval, the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music
See also
- Mir-e Aliabad, in Yazd Province, Iran
- Mire (disambiguation)
- homophone Myrrh
- Revolutionary Left Movement (disambiguation) (Spanish: Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria)
- All pages beginning with "mir"
- All pages with titles containing mir
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