Spiro
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Spiro or Spyro(s) may refer to:
  • ARA Spiro (P-43)
    ARA Spiro (P-43)
    ARA Spiro is the third ship of the MEKO 140A16 Espora series of six corvettes built for the Argentine Navy. The ship is the second ship to bear the name of the Greek-born Captain Samuel Spiro, who fought during the Argentine War of Independence and blew himself up with his ship rather than...

    , the corvette of the Argentine Navy named after Samuel Spiro, a Greek tanker in service 1974-75
  • Spiro Agnew
    Spiro Agnew
    Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland...

    , thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States
  • Spiro curves, i.e. Euler spiral
    Euler spiral
    An Euler spiral is a curve whose curvature changes linearly with its curve length . Euler spirals are also commonly referred to as spiros, clothoids or Cornu spirals....

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  • Spiro compound
    Spiro compound
    A spiro compound is a bicyclic organic compound with rings connected through just one atom. The rings can be different in nature or identical. The connecting atom is also called the spiroatom, most often a quaternary carbon...

    , a class of organic compound featuring two rings joined at one atom
  • Spiro (band)
    Spiro (band)
    Spiro are an instrumental musical group based in Bristol, England. They formed in 1993 as The Famous Five, soon settling on a line-up which remains unchanged to this day. They released one album under that name before changing it to Spiro in 1997...

    , a musical group based in Bristol, England
  • Spiro (device), 1970s telephone hacking device
  • Spiro (name)
    Spiro (name)
    Spiro or Spyro is a male given name fairly common in Greek-speaking population...

     or Spyro or Spyros, origin of the name and people with this name
  • Spiro, Oklahoma
    Spiro, Oklahoma
    Spiro is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,227 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Spiro is located at ....

    • Spiro Mounds
      Spiro Mounds
      Spiro Mounds is an important pre-Columbian Caddoan Mississippian culture archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma in the United States. The site is located seven miles north of Spiro, and is the only prehistoric Native American archaeological site in Oklahoma open to the public...

      , an archaeological site near Spiro, Oklahoma
  • Spyro (series), a series of video games
    • Spyro the Dragon (video game), the first game in the series
    • Spyro the Dragon (character)

See also

  • Spirou
    Spirou
    Spirou may refer to:In comics:* Spirou , the eponymous main character of the comics series Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou* Spirou , originally Le Journal de Spirou, Belgian weekly serial comics magazine...

    , a Belgian comic
  • Spira (disambiguation)
  • Dum Spiro Spero
    Dum spiro spero
    Dum spiro spero means "While I breathe, I hope" in Latin and is generally attributed to Cicero.It is a motto of various places and families.-States and Towns:*The notable origin of the motto is St Andrews, Fife, Scotland...

    , Latin motto meaning "While I breathe, I hope"
  • Spyros disaster
    Spyros disaster
    The Spyros disaster was a major industrial disaster that occurred in Singapore. The Greek tanker Spyros exploded at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore on October 12, 1978. It killed 76 people, and remains as Singapore's worst accident, in terms of lives lost, in Singapore's post-war history...

    , a major industrial disaster that occurred in Singapore
  • Athens Olympic Stadium or Spiros Louis Stadium, the Athens Olympic Stadium named after Spiros Louis
  • Spyro Gyra
    Spyro Gyra
    Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was originally formed in the mid-1970s in Buffalo, New York, USA. With over 25 albums released and 10 million copies sold, they are among the most prolific as well as commercially successful groups of the genre...

    , an American jazz fusion band
  • Spirogyra
    Spirogyra
    Spirogyra is a genus of filamentous green algae of the order Zygnematales, named for the helical or spiral arrangement of the chloroplasts that is diagnostic of the genus. It is commonly found in freshwater areas, and there are more than 400 species of Spirogyra in the world. Spirogyra measures...

    , a type of green alga
  • Spirogyra (band)
    Spirogyra (band)
    This article refers to the British folk band. For the American jazz fusion band, see Spyro Gyra.Spirogyra are a British folk/prog band that recorded three albums between 1971 and 1973, with further original albums in 2009 and 2011.-History:...

    , a British folk band
  • Spironolactone
    Spironolactone
    Spironolactone , commonly referred to as simply spiro, is a diuretic and is used as an antiandrogen.It is a synthetic 17-lactone drug that is a renal competitive aldosterone antagonist in a class of pharmaceuticals called...

    , commonly used as a diuretic or as an antiandrogen
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