MRO

MRO or Mro or variant may refer to:

People

• Medical Review Officer,^[1] or Medical Review Office, a term for a position or department at an organization that mandates drug testing
• The Mro People, an indigenous people of Bangladesh

Locations

• Any of several cities named Marlborough
• Magdalena Ridge Observatory, a multi-use astronomical observatory near Socorro, New Mexico, United States
• Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in outback Western Australia, one of the SKA core sites
• The IATA airport code for Hood Aerodrome near Masterton, New Zealand

Companies

• Hokuriku Broadcasting Company, a broadcasting station in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, also known as MRO
• Marathon Oil Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as MRO
• MRO Software, a software company best known for its Maximo maintenance management system, purchased by IBM in August 2006

Organisations

• Midwest Reliability Organization
• Movimiento Revolucionario Oriental, a left-wing political movement in Uruguay
• The Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism, an organization of Zen-Buddhist temples, practice centers and sitting groups whose main house is the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, Ulster County, New York, United States

Operations and techniques

• Maintenance, repair and operations
• Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul; of aircraft and aircraft systems
• Maintenance and Repair Organization
• Main refinancing operations, a technique used by the European Central Bank to control the money supply
• Method Resolution Order in computing, as implemented in languages such as Python

Science

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (a NASA Mars probe)
• Multidrug resistant organism, a bacterium or other pathogenic organism resisting treatment by several antimicrobial agents, such as antibiotics

Linguistics

• Mro language (ISO 639 code: cmr), a Kukish language of Burma.
• Mru language (ISO 639 code: mro), a Sino-Tibetan language of Bangladesh
• Mro (Unicode block), the Unicode block containing characters for writing the Bangladesh Mru language.

Other uses

• Mini Racing Online, an arcade-style, freeware online multiplayer racing game
• The ISO 4217 code for the Mauritanian ouguiya, the currency of Mauritania
• MRO-A, MRO-D, MRO-Z; the MRO-series of RPG weapons

See also

• Mr. O (Canadian TV show), 1950s children's show

References

1. Medical Review Officer