MBR may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

  • Master boot record, the first sector of a partitioned data storage device, used for booting
  • Memory buffer register
  • Minimum bounding rectangle
  • Minimum bit rate

Other fields

  • Membrane bioreactor, in waste disposal
  • Microwave background radiation, in cosmology
  • Minimum bend radius, for installation of cables and pipes
  • MBR Explorer, planned mission to several main belt asteroids

Publications

  • The Malaysia Book of Records
  • Mountain Bike Rider, a British magazine

Military

  • Main battle rifle
  • Morskoi Blizhniy Razvedchik, (Russian for "Naval Short Range Reconnaissance"), a class of flying boats, like the Beriev MBR-2

Places

  • Middlesbrough railway station, England (by GBR code)
  • Mohammed Bin Rashid Library, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Other uses

  • Maximum base rent, as used in rent control in New York
  • Minerações Brasileiras Reunidas, an iron mining business

See also

  • Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario 200 (MBR-200), a leftist political movement founded by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela