MRO

MRO or Mro or variant may refer to:

People

• Medical review officer or medical review office, a term for a position or department at an organization that mandates drug testing
• The Mro People, an indigenous people of Bangladesh

Locations

• Marlborough (disambiguation), some cities named Marlborough use MRO as an abbreviation
• Magdalena Ridge Observatory, a multi-use astronomical observatory near Socorro, New Mexico, United States
• Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in outback Western Australia, one of the Square Kilometre Array core sites
• Hood Aerodrome, near Masterton, New Zealand, which has the IATA airport code, MRO

Companies

• Hokuriku Broadcasting Company, a broadcasting station in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, also known as MRO
• Marathon Oil Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as MRO
• MRO Software, a software company best known for its Maximo maintenance management system, purchased by IBM in August 2006
• Microsoft R Open The Enhanced R Distribution

Organisations

• Midwest Reliability Organization, an electrical grid reliability organization
• Movimiento Revolucionario Oriental, a left-wing political movement in Uruguay
• Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO) of Zen Buddhism, an organization of associated temples, practice centers and sitting groups headquartered at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York
• Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, a revolutionary national liberation organization

Operations and techniques

• Maintenance, repair and operations, also maintenance, repair and overhaul, fixing or maintaining any sort of mechanical, plumbing or electrical equipment
• Main refinancing operations, a technique used by the European Central Bank to control the money supply
• C3 linearization, also called method resolution order, an algorithm used primarily to obtain the order in which methods should be inherited in the presence of multiple inheritance

Science

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (a NASA Mars probe)
• Multidrug resistant organism, a bacterium or other pathogenic organism resisting treatment by several antimicrobial agents, such as antibiotics

Linguistics

• Mro language (ISO 639 code: cmr), a Kukish language of Burma
• Mru language (ISO 639 code: mro), a Sino-Tibetan language of Bangladesh
• Mro (Unicode block), the Unicode block containing characters for writing the Bangladesh Mru language

Other uses

• Mini Racing Online, an arcade-style, freeware online multiplayer racing game
• The ISO 4217 code for the Mauritanian ouguiya, the currency of Mauritania
• MRO-A, MRO-D, MRO-Z; the MRO-series of RPG weapons

See also

• Mr. O (Canadian TV show), 1950s children's show