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Avis: see Aviz, Portugal.
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Avis may refer to:
Acronyms
- Andover Village Improvement Society, the oldest conservation society in the eastern United States
Business
- Auster Avis, a four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project)
- Avis Budget Group, founded in 2006 as the successor company to Cendant Corporation
- Avis Rent a Car System, a car and truck rental firm
- Aju Avis, an automobile rental headquartered in Guro-dong Guro-gu Seoul Korea and established in 1988
- Haugesunds Avis, a daily newspaper published in Haugesund, Norway
Entertainment
- Avis, a Harry Potter spell
- Avis Durgan, the ASCII-string encoded in the text of the vintage Sierra Entertainment AGI adventure games
- Avis de Recherche, Canadian French language category 2 digital cable specialty channel
- Rarae Avis, an indie rock group
People
Given name (in order of Surname)
- Avis Bunnage (1923-1990), British actress of film, stage and television
- Avis M. Dry (1922–2007), clinical psychologist and an author on the psychology of Carl Jung
- Avis Favaro (born 1958), Canadian medical correspondent for CTV News since 1992
- Avis Gray (born 1954), politician in Manitoba, Canada
- Avis Kimble (born 1944), American model
- Avis Miller (born 1945), American model
Family name
- House of Aviz, the Portuguese royal dynasty
- David Avis, Canadian and British computer scientist
- Samuel B. Avis (1872-1924), American politician
- Warren Avis (1915-2007), the founder of Avis Rent A Car
Places
- Avis, Pennsylvania, a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Avis (Portugal), a municipality in the south of Portugal
Science and technology
- Avis, Latin singular for bird, see class of birds, Aves
- Avis, plural of the video file format AVI
- calcar avis (hippocampus minor), an involution of the ventricular wall produced by the calcarine fissure
See also
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