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Avatr

Avatr is a Chinese premium smart electric vehicle brand from Chongqing-based Avatr Technology, launched in 2022 with the Avatr 11 and backed by Changan, CATL, and Huawei.

Avatr 06

The Avatr 06 (阿维塔 06) is a mid-size electric and extended-range sedan made by Avatr Technology, a Chinese brand backed by Changan Automobile and CATL, launched in April 2025.

Avatr 07

The Avatr 07 is a five-seat SUV by Avatr, the Changan, CATL, and Huawei electric brand, launched in China in September 2024 as the brand's third model.

Avavadakā

Avavadakā (Pali Avavādakā) is a Licchavi girl of Vesāli from a Jain debating family, sister of the debater Saccaka, converted by the elder Sāriputta at Sāvatthi and made an arahant.

Avaya

Avaya is an American enterprise software company providing contact center and unified communications products, spun off from Lucent Technologies in 2000 and privately held since 2023.

Avaza Aquapark

Avaza Aquapark (Awaza akwa park) is a water park in Turkmenistan's Avaza National Tourist Zone on the Caspian coast near Turkmenbashi. Opened July 2018 on about 30 hectares, it has a 41,000 m² indoor aquapark, an 800 m rafting canal, and a 1,640-seat amphitheatre.

Avazbek Kholmirzaev

Avazbek "Ninzya" Kholmirzaev (born 2000) is an Uzbekistani MMA fighter and ONE Flyweight MMA World Champion, the first Uzbekistani titleholder in ONE, with a 16-2 record and 15 stoppage wins.

AVC Men's Volleyball Continental Championship

AVC Men's Volleyball Continental Championship (AVC Men's Volleyball Asian Championship), biennial Asian Volleyball Confederation national-team tournament. Japan won the 2026 edition in Fukuoka, beating Iran 3-0 for an 11th title and an LA28 Olympic berth.

AVC Women's Volleyball Continental Championship

AVC Women's Volleyball Continental Championship, the biennial Asian and Oceanian women's national-team volleyball title run by the Asian Volleyball Confederation since 1975; China holds 13 titles, and Thailand won the 2026 edition in Tianjin, earning its first Olympic berth.

AVCHD

AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) is a high-definition digital video recording format established jointly by Panasonic and Sony in 2006, recording 1080i and 720p video with the H.264 codec.

Avcılar

Avcılar, a district of Istanbul, Turkey on the Sea of Marmara coast 27 km west of the center; population 440,934 (2024), ten neighborhoods, and a leading focus of earthquake-risk urban transformation.

Avdiivka

Avdiivka (Авдіївка) is a Donetsk Oblast industrial city 10 km from Donetsk, pre-war population 35,000. Captured and retaken in 2014, it stayed a frontline town until Russia captured it on 17 February 2024 after a five-month battle.

AVE

AVE (Alta Velocidad Española) is the brand under which Spain's state operator Renfe runs high-speed trains, launched on 21 April 1992 on the Madrid–Seville line, Spain's first high-speed railway.

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant, 'Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you,' is a Latin phrase Suetonius records from Claudius's AD 52 Lake Fucinus naumachia, spoken by condemned criminals, not gladiators; the gladiatorial attribution comes from Gérôme's 1859 painting.

Ave Maria (Schubert)

Ave Maria (Schubert) is Ellens Gesang III, D 839, Op. 52/6, an 1825 strophic Lied by Franz Schubert setting Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake in Adam Storck's German translation, later sung to the Latin prayer text; distinct from Bach/Gounod.

Ave Mujica

Ave Mujica (アヴェ ムジカ) is a five-member Japanese gothic-metal girls band in Bushiroad's BanG Dream! franchise, whose voice actresses play live; members use Latin stage names (Oblivionis, Doloris, Mortis, Timoris, Amoris) and headline a January 2025 Sanzigen 3DCG anime.

Avebury

Avebury stone circle is a Neolithic henge monument in Wiltshire, England, built about 4,600 years ago and containing the largest prehistoric stone circle in the world.

Avedis Donabedian

Avedis Donabedian (1919–2000) was a Lebanese-born Armenian-American physician and health services researcher who founded quality-of-care research and created its structure, process, and outcome framework, spending most of his career at the University of Michigan.

Avedis Zildjian Company

Avedis Zildjian Company (Zildjian): American cymbal, drumstick, and mallet maker founded 1623 in Constantinople by Armenian alchemist Avedis I; now based in Norwell, Massachusetts; brands include Vic Firth and Balter; sibling firm Sabian founded 1981.

Avedøre Power Station

Avedøre Power Station (Danish: Avedøre Kraftvarmeværk) is a combined heat and power plant in Hvidovre near Copenhagen, owned by Ørsted and running on wood pellets and straw.

Avedro

Avedro, formerly ThermalVision, Inc., was a Waltham, Massachusetts ophthalmic company whose riboflain and UVA corneal cross-linking system for keratoconus was FDA approved in 2016 before Glaukos acquired it in 2019.

Aveiro District

Aveiro District (Distrito de Aveiro), a mainland Portuguese district with INE code 01: 19 municipalities, 174 parishes, 2,800.94 km², 700,787 residents (2021), capital Aveiro, bordering Porto, Viseu, and Coimbra.

Aveiro, Aveiro

Aveiro is a coastal city and municipality in Portugal's Centro region, capital of Aveiro District, built on the Ria de Aveiro lagoon. Known as the Venice of Portugal for its canals and moliceiro boats, with salt pans, Art Nouveau buildings, and a 1515 foral.

Avelia Liberty

Avelia Liberty, also called NextGen Acela, is a high-speed tilting trainset built by Alstom for Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor, ordered in 2016 and entering service in 2025.

Avelia Stream

Avelia Stream is a single-deck high-speed train platform built by Alstom, covering speeds from 200 to 320 km/h with more than 500 trains operating in 15 countries.

Aveling-Barford

Aveling-Barford was a British construction equipment manufacturer formed in 1934 from the merger of Aveling & Porter and Barford & Perkins, based in Grantham and known for road rollers and site dumpers.

Avelino Corma

Avelino Corma, born 1951 in Moncófar, Spain, is a Spanish chemist known for heterogeneous catalysis, especially zeolites for oil refining, and founder of the ITQ in Valencia.

Avelino Valencia

Avelino Valencia is an American Democratic politician serving in the California State Assembly from the 68th district, including Anaheim, first elected in 2022 and chairing the Banking and Finance Committee.

Avellana

Avellana: Latin for hazel; the specific epithet of Corylus avellana, the European hazel (Betulaceae), and the name of an extinct Cretaceous–Paleocene ringiculid gastropod genus, Avellana d'Orbigny 1842.

Avellaneda

Avellaneda names two Argentine places honoring president Nicolás Avellaneda: a city of 30,897 in Santa Fe founded 1879 by Friuli immigrants, and a Buenos Aires partido of 400,000, founded 1852 as Barracas al Sud, renamed 1904, home of Dock Sud port and Racing and Independiente.