Air (disambiguation)

Air is the name given to the atmosphere of Earth.

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Air or AIR may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Art
  • Air (Maillol), a sculpture by Aristide Maillol
  • Air (painting), a painting by Jan van Kessel the Elder

Films
  • Air (2005 film), a 2005 anime adaptation of the visual novel
  • Air (2015 film), an American post-apocalyptic film
  • "Air/Love is destructive", the first half of The End of Evangelion, a 1997 anime film

Groups
  • Air (French band), a French electronic music duo
  • Air (free jazz trio), founded in 1971
  • Air (jazz rock band), a jazz rock group featuring Tom and Googie Coppola
  • Air (singer), Japanese singer

Albums
  • Air (Cecil Taylor album), 1960
  • Air (Agua de Annique album), 2007
  • Air (Astronoid album), 2016
  • Air, an album by Air (jazz rock band), 1971
  • Air, an album by Pete Namlook, 1993
  • Air, an album by Kym, 2005
  • Air, an album by Andreas Vollenweider, 2009
  • AIR, an EP by Afgan, 2019
  • Air, an album by British band Sault, 2022

Songs
  • "Air" (song), by Tyson Ritter, 2013
  • "Air", a song in the musical Hair
  • "Air", a song by Ekseption from their self-titled 1969 album Ekseption
  • "Air", a song by Brian Eno and Talking Heads from the 1979 album Fear of Music
  • "Air", a song by Ben Folds Five from the 1998 soundtrack Godzilla: The Album
  • "Air", a song by Shawn Mendes and Astrid S from the 2015 album Handwritten
  • "A.I.R.", a song by Anthrax from their 1985 album Spreading the Disease
  • Air (music), a song-like vocal or instrumental composition
    • Air on the G String, August Wilhelmj's adaptation of an air by Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Air de cour, secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period
  • Air guitar, a form of dance and movement in which a performer pretends to play an imaginary guitar
  • Associated Independent Recording (AIR), an independent recording company and recording studio based in London, UK
  • Australian Independent Record Labels Association, organisation representing Australian-owned record labels and independent artists

Radio
  • All India Radio, radio broadcast service in India
  • Art International Radio, an arts-oriented radio station

Television
  • AIR: America's Investigative Reports, PBS documentary series 2006–2007, retitled Exposé: America's Investigative Reports with second season in 2007
  • "Air" (Stargate Universe), the series premiere of the television series Stargate Universe

Video games
  • Air (1977 video game), an air combat based mainframe computer game
  • Air (video game), a 2000 Japanese visual novel
  • ABS-CBN International Report, a defunct international newscast of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
  • A.I.R. Gallery, an all female artists cooperative gallery in the United States
  • Air, a common colloquialism for a broadcast ("on air")
  • Air (comics), a comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics
  • AIR (nightclub), a 2000 capacity superclub located in Digbeth, Birmingham in the UK
  • Air (novel), a 2005 novel by author Geoff Ryman
  • Air (roller coaster), the former name of a flying roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in the United Kingdom, now re-themed as Galactica
  • Annals of Improbable Research, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to scientific humour
  • Art Is Resistance, an organization in the game Year Zero

Brands and organisations
  • AIR Worldwide (formerly named Applied Insurance Research) is a risk-modeling and data analytics company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
  • AAR Corporation (New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol AIR)
  • Air Jordan, a popular brand of basketball shoes promoted by Retired Chicago Bulls Superstar, Michael Jordan
  • American Institutes for Research, commonly abbreviated AIR, a social science research organization

Computing and technology
  • AIR (program), a program suite for medical image registration
  • Adobe Integrated Runtime (Adobe AIR), a cross-platform run-time environment developed by Adobe Systems for building rich Internet applications
  • iPad Air, an Apple tablet
  • MacBook Air, an Apple ultraportable laptop

Places
  • Aïr Mountains, a massif in northern Niger
  • Sultanate of Agadez, also known as the Sultanate of Aïr
  • Arab Islamic Republic, failed union attempt between Tunisia and Libya

People
  • Donna Air (born 1979), British actress
  • Glen Air (born 1978), Australian rugby league player
  • Michael Jordan, American basketball player nicknamed His Royal Airness
  • Steve McNair, American football player nicknamed Air

Science and healthcare
  • Aminoimidazole ribotide
  • Anterior interval release, a type of arthroscopic knee surgery
  • Oxygen
  • Gas or atmosphere of a planet
  • The sky

Sports
  • Adelaide International Raceway, a car-racing circuit in Adelaide, South Australia
  • Air, a range of boardsport tricks consisting of jumps without rotation
  • "Airs" above the ground, a term used in dressage

Technology
  • Active Infrared, combines infrared illumination of spectral range 700–1,000 nm (just below the visible spectrum of the human eye) with CCD cameras sensitive to this light
  • Air conditioning, any form of cooling, heating, ventilation or disinfection that modifies the condition of air
  • Air injection reactor, a very early automobile emissions control system
  • Air-to-air rocket or air interception rocket, an unguided projectile fired from aircraft to engage other flying targets

Transportation
  • AIR, National Rail code of Airbles railway station, in Motherwell, Scotland
  • AIR-X, a Soviet aircraft series by Yakovlev
  • AIR, MTR station code of Airport station, Hong Kong
  • Lucid Air, a 2021–present American electric executive sedan
  • Wuling Air EV, a 2022–present Chinese electric microcar

Other uses
  • Air (classical element), an element in ancient Greek philosophy and in Western alchemy
  • Airoran language, an Indonesian language with ISO 639-3 code AIR
  • Applied Innovative Research, a scientific journal
  • Compressed air, the air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure
  • Another word for ambience (character, mood, etc.).

See also
  • Air University (disambiguation)
  • Aire (disambiguation)
  • AIRS (disambiguation)
  • Ayr (disambiguation)
  • Ayre, one of six sheadings in the Isle of Man
  • Éire
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