Pyro


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Pyro comes from the Greek word πῦρ (pyr), meaning fire. It may refer to:

Businesses

  • Pyro Plastics Corporation, a plastic model kit maker 1940s through the 1970s
  • Pyro Studios, a computer game developer based in Madrid
  • NRK P3 Pyro, a Norwegian Internet-based music radio station

Entertainment

  • "Pyro" (song), by Kings of Leon from the 2010 album Come Around Sundown
  • Pyro (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • 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

Other uses

  • Pyro (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
  • Pyro, Ohio, United States
  • USS Pyro, two U.S. Navy ammunition ships
  • Short for pyrotechnics
  • Slang for a person afflicted with pyromania, the inability to resist the impulse to deliberately start fires
  • Pyro cable, mineral-insulated copper-clad cable (MICC), a fire-resistant electrical cable
  • Probabilistic programming language Pyro, extending from PyTorch

See also

  • Pyros (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Pyro
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