AMR
Encyclopedia
Companies
- AMR (Abbingdon Music Research), a UK manufacturer of high-end audio systems
- AMR Corporation, parent company of American Airlines
- American Medical ResponseAmerican Medical ResponseAmerican Medical Response, Inc. or is an American provider of emergency and non-emergency medical transportation, operating in 38 states and the District of Columbia. It employs around 17,000 personnel and has a fleet of 4,400 vehicles...
, a private ambulance operator - Arcata and Mad River RailroadArcata and Mad River RailroadThe Arcata and Mad River Railroad was affectionately known as the "Annie and Mary". AMR's predecessor, the Union Plank Walk, Rail Track, and Wharf Company, was incorporated on December 15, 1854, to provide access over the mud flats near the town of Union to ocean going shipping for a distance of...
- AMR ResearchAMR ResearchAMR Research, Inc. was an independent research firm, sold to Gartner Research for $64 million in 2009, which focused on the global supply chain and its supporting technologies...
, a research company focused on the intersection of business processes with technology
Computer technology
- Audio/modem riserAudio/modem riserThe audio/modem riser, also known as an AMR slot, is a riser expansion slot found on the motherboards of some Pentium III, Pentium 4, Duron, and Athlon personal computers...
A slot on the motherboard that is the size of the PCIe x1 - Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec, a patented audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding, the common file extension of which is .amr
- Adaptive mesh refinementAdaptive mesh refinementIn numerical analysis, adaptive mesh refinement is a method of adaptive meshing. Central to any Eulerian method is the manner in which it discretizes the continuous domain of interest into a grid of many individual elements...
, a method of adaptive meshing used in numerical analysis - Automatic meter readingAutomatic meter readingAutomatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy metering devices and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing.This technology mainly saves utility...
, the technology of automatically collecting data from water, gas electric meters
Military
- AMR 33AMR 33The Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance Renault Modèle 1933 was a French light tank developed during the Interbellum and used in the Second World War....
, a French light tank - AMR 35AMR 35The Automitrailleuse de Reconnaissance Renault Modèle 35 Type ZT was a French light tank developed during the Interbellum and used in the Second World War...
, a French light tank - Anti-materiel rifleAnti-materiel rifleAn anti-materiel rifle is a rifle that is designed for use against military equipment rather than against other combatants ....
, a large-calibre rifle capable of piercing thick armor - Atlantic Missile Range, one of the previous names of the Eastern Range
Other uses
- Advanced meat recoveryAdvanced meat recoveryAdvanced meat recovery is a slaughterhouse process by which the last traces ofusable meat are removed from bones and other carcass materials after the primal cuts have been carved off manually....
, a slaughterhouse process by which residual meat trimmings are extracted from bones and other carcass materials - AmarakaeriAmarakaeriAmarakaeri is an indigenous American language of the Harakmbet language family spoken in Perú along the Madre de Dios and Colorado rivers. There is less than 1% literacy compared to 5 to 15% literacy in second language Spanish. There is one dialect called Kisambaeri. It is an official language and...
, an indigenous American language, from its ISO 639 language code - Amersham stationAmersham stationAmersham station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the town of Amersham, in the Chiltern district of Buckinghamshire, England.Amersham station is a terminus of the London Underground's Metropolitan Line...
, from its National Rail Code - Anisotropic MagnetoresistanceMagnetoresistanceMagnetoresistance is the property of a material to change the value of its electrical resistance when an external magnetic field is applied to it. The effect was first discovered by William Thomson in 1856, but he was unable to lower the electrical resistance of anything by more than 5%. This...
, a material property where impedance depends on external magnetic fields - Accelerating Moment Release, an Earthquake precursor signalling a major earthquake