Avro (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
Aviation
- AvroAvroAvro was a British aircraft manufacturer, with numerous landmark designs such as the Avro 504 trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War.-Early history:One of the world's...
, a British aircraft manufacturer - Avro CanadaAvro CanadaCommonly known as Avro Canada, this company started in 1945 as an aircraft plant and became within thirteen years the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000...
, a Canadian aircraft manufacturer
Software
- Avro (serialization system)Avro (serialization system)Avro is a remote procedure call and serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format...
, a schema definition language based on JSONJSONJSON , or JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. It is derived from the JavaScript scripting language for representing simple data structures and associative arrays, called objects...
, developed in the HadoopHadoopApache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data...
project - Avro KeyboardAvro KeyboardAvro Keyboard is a free and open source, graphical keyboard layout changer for the Microsoft Windows operating system, Ubuntu and other flavours of Linux. It is the first free Unicode and ANSI-compliant Bengali keyboard interface for Windows that was published on 26 March 2003...
, a Bengali typing software / keyboard layout changer
Other uses
- EuroEuroThe euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
, aka Avro, the Turkish name (from the Turkish word for Europe, Avrupa) for the official currency of the European Union, the euro - AVRO 1938 chess tournament, a 1938 chess tournament