Metro

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Metro is an abbreviation of metropolitan, and is the name of many products and services relating to urban areas, usually rapid transit rail systems, but also simply bus operators and/or services.

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[edit] Public transport

In Rail (rapid transit):

In Rail (other):

In Buses:

In Transit authorities:

[edit] Populations and government

In Populations:

In Government:

[edit] Media

In Newspapers:

In Magazines:

  • Metro (magazine), a monthly lifestyle magazine published in New Zealand
  • Metro Magazine, a trade magazine published for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators since 1904

In Broadcasting:

[edit] Retail businesses

[edit] Entertainment

In Music:

In Film:

[edit] Vehicles

In Aircraft:

In Automobiles:

[edit] Other

In Language:

  • The word for metre, a unit of length, in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
  • "metrosexual", a neologism for a male (typically heterosexual) who spends large amounts of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle

In Technology:

  • XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework, formerly code-named "Metro"
  • Metro Ethernet, a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area
  • GlassFish Metro, an opensource web service stack that is part of the GlassFish project

In Sport:

In Education:

In Airports: