Avis is Latin for bird and may refer to:
Aviation
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Auster Avis
The Auster Avis was a four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat. It featured a redesigned fuselage incorporating four doors and a circular cross-section towards the tail, new undercarriage, and new wing flaps. It was planned i ...
, a 1940s four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
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Avro Avis
The Avro 562 Avis was a two-seat light biplane designed and built by the A.V.Roe and Company Limited at Hamble for the 1924 Lympne Light Aeroplane Trials.
Design and development
The Avis was a single-bay unstaggered biplane with full-span ail ...
, a two-seat biplane
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Scottish Aeroplane Syndicate Avis
The Scottish Aeroplane Avis was a tractor monoplane built by Howard T Wright in 1909. At that time Wright was one of England's foremost aircraft engineers, and had several monoplane aircraft under development. The Avis was shown at the 1910 Ae ...
, an early aircraft built by Howard Wright
Businesses
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Avis Budget Group
Avis Budget Group is American car rental agency holding company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. It is the parent company of several brands including Avis Car Rental, Budget Rent a Car, Budget Truck Rental, Payless Car Rental and Zipca ...
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Avis Car Rental
Avis Car Rental is an American car rental company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. Avis, Budget Rent a Car, Budget Truck Rental and Zipcar are all units of Avis Budget Group.
Avis Budget Group operates the Avis brand in South Afric ...
Places
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Avis, Portugal
Avis (), formerly spelled Aviz, is a municipality in the District of Portalegre in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,571, in an area of 605.97 km2.
The present Mayor is Nuno Silva, elected by the Unitary Democratic Coalition. The munici ...
, a municipality in the south of Portugal
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Avis, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
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Avis, Pennsylvania
Avis is a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,484 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Avis is located in southeastern Clinton County at (41.185234, -77.316455). It is on the north side of the valley of the West ...
, United States, a borough
Other uses
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Avis (name) Avis is both a given name, mostly feminine but also masculine, and a surname.
Given name
The earliest form of this female given name was the Old German Haduwig comprising the elements ''hadu'' "battle" and ''wig'' "fight": the original form of the ...
, a given name and a surname
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Andover Village Improvement Society The Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) is a private land trust in Andover, Massachusetts. Founded in 1894, AVIS is the second oldest land preservation society in the United States. Its goal is to acquire land within Andover and preserve it i ...
, a land preservation society
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Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue
The ' (''AVIS'') ("Association
of Voluntary Italian Blood Donors") is the major Italian non-profit and charitable organisation for blood donation, bringing together over a million volunteer blood donors across Italy. It is headquartered in Lomb ...
'', or ''AVIS'', an Italian blood donation organisation
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Avis Dam
The Avis Dam is a dam outside of Windhoek, Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Bot ...
, a dam near Windhoek, Namibia
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USS ''Avis'' (Sp-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918
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Menton J. Matthews III or Avis, musician
*Avis, an open-source implementation of the
Elvin network event routing specification
*Avis, a fictional deity on ''
The Orville
''The Orville'' is an American science fiction comedy-drama television series created by Seth MacFarlane, who also stars as series protagonist Ed Mercer, an officer in the Planetary Union's line of exploratory space vessels in the 25th century. ...
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*-avis, a
commonly used taxonomic suffix
See also
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Aves (disambiguation)
Aves is the class of birds.
Aves may also refer to:
* Aves Island, a Caribbean island administered by Venezuela
* Aves (Santo Tirso), a town and a parish in northern Portugal
* C.D. Aves, a Portuguese football (soccer) club
* Las Aves Archip ...
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Avi (disambiguation) Avi is a masculine given name.
Avi or AVI may also refer to:
* Avi (author), pen name of children's author Edward Irving Wortis
* Zee Avi, Malaysian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and ukulele player born Izyan Alirahman in 1985
* Audio Video Inter ...
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Aviz (disambiguation) Aviz may refer to:
* Aviz, Fars, a village in Fars Province, Iran
*Aviz, the medieval name of Avis, Portugal
* Aviz, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
* Tarik Aviz, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
* Aviz Rural District, ...
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House of Aviz or House of Avis, a dynasty of the kings of Portugal
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List of newspapers named Avis Avis (Danish/Norwegian for newspaper) is part of the name of the following newspapers:
Norway
*'' Aalesunds Avis'', a former newspaper, published in Ålesund
*'' Ås Avis'', a weekly newspaper in the municipality of Ås
*''Brønnøysunds Avis'', a ...
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Order of Aviz or , a Portuguese military order
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Order of Aviz (Brazil)
The Imperial Order of St. Benedict of Avis ( pt, Imperial Ordem de São Bento de Avis) is an old Brazilian military order, originated from the Portuguese Military Order of Aviz, which in turn dates back to the medieval Order of Aviz, Order of Sa ...
or Imperial Order of St. Benedict of Avis, a former Imperial Brazilian military order
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