Avis
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Avis is Latin for bird. It may refer to:
Businesses
- Avis Budget Group, founded in 2006 as the successor company to Cendant Corporation
- Avis Rent a Car System, a car rental company
- Avis (newspaper), a list of newspapers
Places
- Avis, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
- Avis, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough
- Avis, Portugal, a municipality in the south of Portugal
- Avis Dam, near Windhoek, Namibia
Aircraft
- Auster Avis, a 1940s four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
- Avro Avis, a two-seat biplane
- Scottish Aeroplane Syndicate Avis, an early aircraft built by Howard Wright
Entertainment
- Avis, a Harry Potter spell that creates a flock of birds from the caster's wand
- Avis Everhard, fictional narrator of Jack London's "The Iron Heel"
- Menton J. Matthews III, a musician also known as Avis
Acronyms
- Anderlik Varga Iskola Sport or AVIS, a 1930s Hungarian aviation company
- Andover Village Improvement Society, the second oldest land preservation society in the United States founded in 1894
- Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue, or AVIS, the major Italian blood donation organisation
People
- Avis (name), a given name and a surname
- House of Aviz (Avis in modern Portuguese), the second dynasty of the kings of Portugal
Other uses
- USS Avis (SP-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
- Order of Aviz (Ordem Militar de Avis), a Portuguese military order
- Order of Aviz (Brazil) (Imperial Order of St. Benedict of Avis), a former Imperial Brazilian military order
- The free software implementation of the Elvin network event routing specification
- List of commonly used taxonomic affixes (for the suffix "-avis")
Avis A parasite
See also
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