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Aventura (Peru)

Aventura (Peru): Corporación Aventura S.A.C., a Mincetur-authorized Peruvian slot machine hall operator in Lima and Callao (Cuzco, Abancay I, Rímac I, Jirón II salas); distinct from Mall Aventura and Aventura Park.

Aventura Parks

Aventura Parks is Dubai's largest outdoor zipline and treetop adventure park, in a 35,000 sqm Ghaf tree forest inside Mushrif Park, with 24+ ziplines, five graded circuits, escape games, and team-building programs.

Aventure 64

Aventure 64 is a French GIE (SIREN 521 030 692, created 2010, RCS Bayonne) grouping sports and leisure operators in the Pays Basque, offering paramotor, surf, rafting, canyoning, quad, paintball, and trampoline park activities; not the Aventon Aventure e-bike.

Aventurera

Aventurera ("Adventuress") is a 1950 Mexican cabaretera musical melodrama directed by Alberto Gout, starring Ninón Sevilla as Elena Tejero, a drugged, prostituted woman who becomes a cabaret star and takes revenge; hailed in France by Cahiers du Cinéma and later ranked among Mexico's best films.

Aventurine

Aventurine, also known as aventurine quartz, is a translucent quartz containing plate-like mineral inclusions that sparkle, an effect called aventurescence; it is most often green from fuchsite mica.

Aventurine (Honkai: Star Rail)

Aventurine, born Kakavasha, is a fictional character in the video game Honkai: Star Rail, a senior manager in the Interastral Peace Corporation and a playable five-star character released in 2024.

Avenue 5

Avenue 5 is an HBO science-fiction comedy created by Armando Iannucci, starring Hugh Laurie as fake space-cruise captain Ryan Clark; two seasons, 2020–2022, about a Saturn cruise thrown three years off course.

Avenue Capital Group

Avenue Capital Group is a global investment firm founded in 1995 in New York by Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner, investing in distressed debt and credit.

Avenue of Sphinxes

The Avenue of Sphinxes, called Wat Nathr by the ancient Egyptians, is a 2.7 km sphinx-lined processional way linking Karnak and Luxor temples, reopened in 2021.

Avenue of the Saints

The Avenue of the Saints, also called the Avenue of the Saints Corridor, is a roughly 550-mile four-lane highway connecting St. Paul, Minnesota, and St. Louis, Missouri, completed in 2008.

Avenue Q

Avenue Q: adult puppet musical by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx (music/lyrics) and Jeff Whitty (book), parodying Sesame Street. Off-Broadway 2003, Broadway John Golden Theatre 2,534 performances, 2004 Tonys for Best Musical, Score, Book, beating Wicked.

Avenue Supermarts

Avenue Supermarts, known as DMart, is an Indian value-retail supermarket chain headquartered in Mumbai, founded by investor Radhakishan Damani, whose first store opened in Powai in 2002.

Avenzo Therapeutics, Inc.

Avenzo Therapeutics is a San Diego clinical-stage oncology biotechnology company founded in 2022 by Athena Countouriotis and Mohammad Hirmand to develop CDK inhibitors and bispecific antibody-drug conjugates.

AvePoint

AvePoint is an American software company headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, offering data protection, governance, and migration software for Microsoft 365, Google, and Salesforce, serving over 28,000 customers.

Aver O Mar

Aver-o-Mar is a coastal parish of Póvoa de Varzim, Porto district, Portugal, near coordinates 41.4061 N, 8.7796 W, with about 10,501 residents, a beginner surf beach, and Aver-O-Mar Futebol Clube, founded 25 November 1983.

Average

An average, also called a statistical average, is a single value chosen to represent the typical level of a set of numbers, usually the arithmetic mean.

Average absolute deviation

The average absolute deviation (AAD), also called the mean absolute deviation about the mean, measures dispersion as the average absolute distance of observations from the mean.

Average human height by country

Average human height by country: mean measured adult stature by sex, tracked by NCD-RisC across 200 countries. Global means 171 cm (men) and 159 cm (women) for the 1996 birth cohort; largest century gains in South Korean women and Iranian men.

Average Joe

Average Joe (2023) is a BET+ dark comedy crime drama created by Robb Cullen, starring Deon Cole as Pittsburgh plumber Joe Washington, whose late father stole $10 million from the Russian mob; season 2 moved to Paramount+ in 2026.

Average linkage clustering

Average linkage clustering, also known as UPGMA, is an agglomerative hierarchical clustering method that merges clusters with the smallest average pairwise distance, producing a dendrogram.

Average path length

Average path length is the mean of the shortest-path distances between all pairs of nodes in a network, counting the average number of steps needed to get from one node to another.

Average total cost

Average total cost (ATC) is total cost divided by output, the cost per unit; its U-shaped curve shows the output at which a firm produces most efficiently.

Average treatment effect

The average treatment effect (ATE) is a causal estimand defined as the expected difference in outcomes had everyone in a population been treated versus had no one been, widely used in epidemiology and the social sciences.

Average variable cost

Average variable cost (AVC) is a firm's variable cost of production divided by the quantity of output, typically U-shaped, and the price floor below which a firm shuts down in the short run.

Average White Band

Average White Band (AWB), Scottish funk and soul band formed in London in 1972, known for "Pick Up the Pieces," a US No. 1 in 1975 on Atlantic Records, and for extensive hip-hop sampling.

Average-case complexity

Average-case complexity is the branch of complexity theory that measures an algorithm's resource needs on typical inputs drawn from a probability distribution, introduced by Leonid Levin in 1984.

Averil Ma

Averil Ma is a physician-scientist in immunology and gastroenterology at the University of California, San Francisco, where she directs the IBD Center and studies the anti-inflammatory protein A20.

Averin Health

Averin Health is the healthcare-focused venture capital fund of Averin Capital, a firm founded in 2024 as Bedford Bridge and led by managing partners David and Eric Berry.

Avernus Cavi

Avernus Cavi: a group of irregular depressions (cavi) on Mars near Elysium Planitia, 115 km across, IAU-approved 1985 from an Antoniadi albedo feature; related to Avernus Colles, Dorsa, and Rupes.

Avernus Colles

Avernus Colles is a 238.7-km-wide region of broken, hilly chaotic terrain on Mars at 1.73S, 171.02E, on the Elysium Planitia margin, named by the IAU in 1985 and studied for its folded terrains.