Pyro comes from the Greek word πῦρ (pyr), meaning ''
fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction Product (chemistry), products.
At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition ...
''. It may refer to:
Businesses
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Pyro Plastics Corporation
The Pyro Plastics Corporation was an American manufacturing company based in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, Union Township, NJ and popular during the 1950s and 1960s that produced toys and plastic model, plastic scale model, model kits ...
, a plastic model kit maker 1940s through the 1970s
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Pyro Studios
Pyro Mobile was a video game developer based in Madrid, Spain, established in 2012 as a merger between Play Wireless and Pyro Studios and eventually ceasing operations in the second half of 2017. It is mostly known for its real-time tactics games ...
, a computer game developer based in Madrid
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NRK P3 Pyro, a Norwegian Internet-based music radio station
Entertainment
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"Pyro" (song), by Kings of Leon, 2010
* "Pyro", a song by Budjerah from his 2021
self-titled EP
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Pyro (Marvel Comics)
Pyro is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Known as St. John Allerdyce, Pyro is depicted as a recurring enemy of the X-Men and later becomes an agent of the U.S. government. He was c ...
, a Marvel Comics supervillain
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Pyro (''Team Fortress 2''), one of the playable classes in the video game
* ''
Pyro... The Thing Without a Face'', a 1964 film starring Barry Sullivan and Martha Hyer
* A god in the video game
''Sacrifice''
* One of the seven elements in the game ''
Genshin Impact
''Genshin Impact'' is an action role-playing game developed and published by miHoYo. It was released for Android (operating system), Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, and Windows in 2020, on PlayStation 5 in 2021, and is set for release on Nintendo ...
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Other uses
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Pyro (horse)
Pyro (foaled on February 19, 2005 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred Racehorse and sire. His sire is Pulpit, a son of the 1992 Eclipse Award Winner for American Horse of the Year, A.P. Indy. His dam is the mare Wild Vision, sired by ...
, an American thoroughbred racehorse
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Pyro, Ohio
Pyro is an unincorporated community in Madison Township, Jackson County, Ohio, United States. It is located northeast of Oak Hill along CH&D Road, at .Rand McNally. ''The Road Atlas '06.'' Chicago: Rand McNally
Rand McNally is an American ...
, United States
*, two U.S. Navy ammunition ships
*Short for
pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics is the science and craft of creating such things as fireworks, safety matches, oxygen candles, explosive bolts and other fasteners, parts of automotive airbags, as well as gas-pressure blasting in mining, quarrying, and demolition. ...
*Slang for a person afflicted with
pyromania
Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires, to relieve some tension or for instant gratification. The term ''pyromania'' comes from the Greek word (''pyr'', 'fi ...
, the inability to resist the impulse to deliberately start fires
*Pyro cable,
mineral-insulated copper-clad cable
Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable is a variety of electrical cable made from copper conductors inside a copper sheath, insulated by inorganic magnesium oxide powder. The name is often abbreviated to MICC or MI cable, and colloquially known as ...
(MICC), a fire-resistant electrical cable
*Probabilistic programming language Pyro, extending from
PyTorch
PyTorch is a machine learning framework based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, originally developed by Meta AI and now part of the Linux Foundation umbrella. It is free and open ...
See also
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Pyros (disambiguation)
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