MIR

n. Russian space station that has been in space for a long time and is designed to eventually break apart and be replaced

MIR is an acronym for one of the following:MIR (submersible) Soviet and Russian bathyscaphes Habib Bourguiba International Airport in TunisiaMail-in rebateMedical Inspection Room, the place for sick parade in most British and Commonwealth militaries and many Non-governmental organizations.Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company, a Japanese company operating the Tsukuba Express, from Akihabara Station to Tsukuba Station.Micropower Impulse Radar, a compact low-power radar system developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.Mid-level intermediate representation, one of intermediate representations of a computer program in compiler.Minneapolis Industrial Railway Maximum Information Rate, in Radios the maximum bandwidth the Subscriber Unit will be delivered from the Access Point in kbit/sMovimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, the name of several political parties in Latin America.Music Information RetrievalMaryland International RacewayMoving Image Retoucher (M.I.R.)
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Mir (, which can mean both peace and world) was a Soviet (and later Russian) orbital station. Mir was mankind's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first of 'third generation' type of space station, constructed over a number of years with a modular design.Mir currently holds the record for longest continuous human presence in space at eight days short of 10 years, and, through a number of collaborations, was made internationally accessible to cosmonauts and astronauts of many different countries. The most notable of these, the Shuttle-Mir Program, saw American Space Shuttles visiting the station eleven times, bringing supplies and providing crew rotation. Mir was assembled in orbit by successively connecting several modules, each launched separately from 1986 to 1996.
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pron. me (object form of I - first person)

n. mir

resident hospital doctor