Aura

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Aura or AURA may refer to:

In science and medicine:

• Aura (symptom), a symptom experienced before a migraine or seizure
• Aura (paranormal), a field of luminous multicolored radiation around a person or object
• Aura (satellite), a satellite in the NASA Earth Observing System series
• 1488 Aura, a main-belt asteroid
• Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
• Autonomous robot architecture (AuRA)
• Halo (optical phenomenon), also known as an aura

In geography:

• Aura (woreda), administrative division in Ethiopia
• Aura, Finland
• Aura River, Finland
• Aura an der Saale, Bavaria, Germany
• Aura Abbey, Benedictine monastery at Aura an der Saale
• Aura im Sinngrund, Bavaria, Germany
• Aura, Michigan, USA
• Aura (at College Park), a proposed condominium project in Toronto, Ontario

In music:

• Aura Lewis, South African born singer also known simply as 'Aura'
• Aura (CMX album)
• Aura (Asia album)
• Aura (Miles Davis album)
• Aura (The Mission album)
• AURA (United Artists for African Rap), West African rappers promoting Children's Rights
• Aurra, a 1980s soul group

In fiction:

• Aura (.hack), a character in the .hack franchise
• Aura (Fuentes), novel by Carlos Fuentes
• Princess Aura, a character from Flash Gordon
• Aura (Seiken Densetsu), an elemental spirit in the Seiken Densetsu series

In computing:

• Avaya Aura, an internet protocol communications system produced by Avaya
• TVPaint, an animation software package also distributed as Newtek Aura
• Aura: Fate of the Ages, a computer game published by The Adventure Company

In products and brands:

• Aura (cheese), a Finnish blue mold cheese
• Aura, a brand name of Bowers & Wilkins
• Aura (cell phone) a cellular phone manufactured by Motorola
• Saturn Aura, an automobile

In other uses:

• Aura (Jat), a tribal group in Pakistan
• Aurá language
• Finnish Maiden, personification of Finland sometimes known as Aura

Etymology:
The word is from the Greek: αὔρα, aýra, a breath of wind or breeze.

[edit] See also

• Auras, town in Uttar Pradesh, India

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