Air (disambiguation)

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Air is the name given to the Earth's atmosphere.

Air may also refer to:

Places

• Aïr Mountains, a massif in northern Niger
• Sultanate of Agadez, also known as the Sultanate of Aïr

People

• Air (singer), a Japanese singer
• Donna Air (born 1979), British actress
• Glen Air (born 1978), Australian rugby league player
• Michael Jordan, American basketball player nicknamed His Royal Airness
• Steve McNair, American football player nicknamed Air

Arts, entertainment, and media

Brands and enterprises

• AIR (nightclub), a 2000 capacity superclub located in Digbeth, Birmingham in the UK
• AIR Worldwide, Applied Insurance Research is a risk-modeling and data analytics company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
• AAR Corporation (New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol AIR)
• Adelaide International Raceway, a permanent circuit owned by Australian Motorsport Club Limited under the auspices of the Bob Jane Corporation
• Air Jordan, a popular brand of basketball shoes promoted by Retired Chicago Bulls Superstar, Michael Jordan
• Associated Independent Recording (AIR), an audio recording facility in London

Computing and technology

• AIR (program), a program suite for medical image registration
• Adobe Integrated Runtime (Adobe AIR), a cross-platform run-time environment developed by Adobe Systems for building rich Internet applications
• iPad Air, an Apple tablet
• MacBook Air, an Apple laptop

Science and healthcare

• Aminoimidazole ribotide
• Anterior interval release, a type of arthroscopic knee surgery
• Oxygen
• The sky

Sports

• Air, a range of boardsport tricks consisting of jumps without rotation
• "Airs" above the ground, a term used in dressage

Technology

• Active Infrared, combines infrared illumination of spectral range 700–1,000 nm (just below the visible spectrum of the human eye) with CCD cameras sensitive to this light
• Air conditioning, any form of cooling, heating, ventilation or disinfection that modifies the condition of air
• Air injection reactor, a very early automobile emissions control system
• Air-to-air rocket or air interception rocket, an unguided projectile fired from aircraft to engage other flying targets

Transportation

• AIR, National Rail code of Airbles railway station, in Motherwell, Scotland
• AIR-X, USSR aircraft series by Yakovlev, stands for Alexei Ivanovich Rykov, one of the communist leaders

Other uses

• Air (classical element), an element in ancient Greek philosophy and in Western alchemy
• Air (roller coaster), the former name of a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in the United Kingdom, now re-themed as Galactica
• Air, a common colloquialism for a broadcast
• Australian Independent Record Labels Association
• Compressed air, the air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure
• The Sultanate of Aïr, or Sultanate of Agadez, a monarchy in the Aïr Mountains between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries

See also

• Aire (disambiguation)
• AIRS (disambiguation)
• Ayr (disambiguation)
• Ayre, one of six sheadings in the Isle of Man
• Éire