Gyr
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Gyr or gyr can mean:
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- Phoenix Goodyear AirportPhoenix Goodyear AirportPhoenix Goodyear Airport , formerly known as Goodyear Municipal Airport, is a public airport located one mile southwest of the central business district of Goodyear, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States....
(IATA code: GYR), an airport in Arizona, United States - GyrfalconGyrfalconThe Gyrfalcon — Falco rusticolus — is the largest of the falcon species. The Gyrfalcon breeds on Arctic coasts and the islands of North America, Europe, and Asia. It is mainly resident there also, but some Gyrfalcons disperse more widely after the breeding season, or in winter.Individual vagrancy...
, a species of bird of prey - ByrByrByr was formerly used in English-language geology and astronomy as a unit of one billion years. The "B" is an abbreviation for "billion" , with "yr" simply an abbreviation for "year". Today, the term gigaannum is also used, but Gy or Gyr are still sometimes used in English-language works...
or Gyr, abbreviations for gigayear, i.e. a billion (109) years - Gyr (cattle), an important Zebu breed of cattle
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- GIRGIRGIR can refer to:* Gateway International Raceway in Madison, Illinois* Geographic Information Retrieval* Gir, one of the pen names of Jean Giraud, a French comics artist...
- gyreGyreA gyre in oceanography is any large system of rotating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis Effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, which determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl...
- gyroGyro- Science and technology :* An abbreviation for gyroscope, an orientation-stabilizing device* An abbreviation for autogyro, a type of rotary-wing aircraft* The casually used brand name of a detangler mechanism, part of a stunt-adapted BMX bicycle...