TIR
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Tir, tir or TIR may mean:
  • The French term for Schützenfest
    Schützenfest
    A Schützenfest is a traditional festival or fair featuring a target shooting competition in the cultures of both Germany and Switzerland....

    , a target-shooting competition
  • Tir (month)
    Tir (month)
    Tir is the 4th month of the Iranian civil calendar of 1925. Tir has 31 days and begins on June and ends on July. Tir is the 1st month of summer....

    , the fourth month (the first month of summer) in the Iranian calendar
  • Occasional spelling of the Old Norse theonym Tyr
  • A woman thrall
    Thrall
    Thrall was the term for a serf or unfree servant in Scandinavian culture during the Viking Age.Thralls were the lowest in the social order and usually provided unskilled labor during the Viking era.-Etymology:...

     in Old Norse society


Abbreviations
  • Total Internal Reflection
    Total internal reflection
    Total internal reflection is an optical phenomenon that happens when a ray of light strikes a medium boundary at an angle larger than a particular critical angle with respect to the normal to the surface. If the refractive index is lower on the other side of the boundary and the incident angle is...

  • Tigrinya language
    Tigrinya language
    Tigrinya , also spelled Tigrigna, Tigrnia, Tigrina, Tigriña, less commonly Tigrinian, Tigrinyan, is a Semitic language spoken by the Tigrinya people in central Eritrea , where it is one of the two main languages of Eritrea, and in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia , where it...

     ISO 639 code
  • Tirupati Airport
    Tirupati Airport
    Tirupati Airport is located at Tirumala - Tirupati in Chittoor Dist in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The airport is situated at a distance of 14 km from Tirupati city. The night landing facility has been installed. The runway is going to be increased by another 900 metres...

    , the IATA airport code
  • Traumatic Incident Reduction, a form of psychotherapy
  • The TIR Treaty
    TIR Treaty
    The Convention on International Transport of Goods Under Cover of TIR Carnets was made at Geneva on 14 November 1975 to simplify and harmonise the administrative formalities of international road transport....

     of road transportation (Transports Internationaux Routiers, International Road Transport)
  • Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor, the cytoplasmic domain of TLR-4
  • Total indicated runout, a measure of roundness or concentricity in the production of machined parts
  • Total indicator reading
    Total indicator reading
    Total indicator reading is the difference between the maximum and minimum measurements on the surface or plane of a part, effectively determining its flatness. This measurement can also apply to cylindrical surfaces....

    , a more general extrapolation of total indicated runout, applicable to other areas of metrology
  • Total Immersion Racing, a 2002 racing videogame.


Popular culture
  • Tir McDohl, the name given to the protagonist in the Japanese novelization and radio drama adaptation of the video game Suikoden

See also

  • Tir Planitia
    Tir Planitia
    Tir Planitia is a large basin on Mercury....

    , a large basin on Mercury
  • Tír na nÓg
    Tír na nÓg
    Tír na nÓg is the most popular of the Otherworlds in Irish mythology. It is perhaps best known from the story of Oisín, one of the few mortals who lived there, who was said to have been brought there by Niamh of the Golden Hair. It was where the Tuatha Dé Danann settled when they left Ireland's...

    , an Otherworld in Irish mythology

Tir , Welsh for Land
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