MRO or Mro may refer to:

People

  • Mru (disambiguation), peoples and languages also known as Mro
  • Mary Rambaran-Olm, Canadian literary historian

Locations

  • Hood Aerodrome (IATA code MRO), near Masterton, New Zealand
  • 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
  • Morradoo railway station, Melbourne
  • Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in outback Western Australia, one of the Square Kilometre Array core sites

Companies

  • Hokuriku Broadcasting Company, also known as MRO, a broadcasting station in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Marathon Oil Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange as MRO
  • Melrose Industries, listed on the London Stock Exchange as MRO
  • MRO Software, a software company best known for its Maximo maintenance management system

Organisations

  • Middlesex Record Office, former historical organisation, merged into the current-day London Metropolitan Archives in 1965
  • Midwest Reliability Organization, an electrical grid reliability organization
  • Oriental Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Oriental), a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Uruguay
  • Mountains and Rivers Order, headquartered at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York
  • Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, a revolutionary national liberation organization
  • Metsähovi Radio Observatory, an astronomical radio observatory in Kirkkonummi, Finland

Operations and techniques

  • Maintenance, repair and operations (or 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
  • Medical Review Office, the entity in which a medical professional reviews the results of a drug test. This professional may also have the title of Medical Review Officer.

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

  • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA Mars probe
  • 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
  • Mitochondrion-related organelle

See also

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