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VOR or vor may refer to:


Organizations

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Vale of Rheidol Railway The Vale of Rheidol Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol) is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Ceredigion, Wales, between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge; a journey of . It opened in 1902, and from the withdrawal of main line steam on Briti ...
in Wales *
Voice of Russia Voice of Russia ( rus, Голос России, r=Golos Rossii), commonly abbreviated VOR, was the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 2014, when it was reorganised as Radio Sputnik. Its interval signal w ...
, a radio broadcaster *
Volvo Ocean Race The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Ra ...
, a yacht race


Science, technology and medicine

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VHF omnidirectional range Very high frequency omnirange station (VOR) is a type of short-range radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a receiving unit to determine its position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a network ...
, a radio navigation aid used in aviation * Vestibulo-ocular reflex, a reflex eye movement * Voice-operated recording, see
Voice-operated switch In telecommunications, a voice operated switch, also known as VOX or voice-operated exchange, is a switch that operates when sound over a certain threshold is detected. It is usually used to turn on a transmitter or recorder when someone speaks and ...
* Visual Operating Rules, another term for
visual flight rules In aviation, visual flight rules (VFR) are a set of regulations under which a pilot operates an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going. Specifically, the weather must be better ...
in aviation * Video operation room, part of the set-up for the
video assistant referee The video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official in association football who reviews decisions made by the referee. The assistant video assistant referee (AVAR) is a current or former referee appointed to assist the VAR in the video ope ...
in association football


Entertainment

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Vor of Barrayar The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers, ''The Vorkosigan Companion'', Baen Books 2008, The first ...
, the noble families of Barrayar in the science fiction Vorkosigan Saga *
Vor (Star Wars) VOR or vor may refer to: Organizations * Vale of Rheidol Railway in Wales * Voice of Russia, a radio broadcaster * Volvo Ocean Race, a yacht race Science, technology and medicine * VHF omnidirectional range, a radio navigation aid used in ...
, a race in the ''Star Wars'' universe * ''VOR'', a 1958 science fiction novel by
James Blish James Benjamin Blish () was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his '' Cities in Flight'' novels and his series of ''Star Trek'' novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. His novel '' A Case of Conscie ...
* Vor Daj, protagonist of the 1940 novel '' Synthetic Men of Mars'' by Edgar Rice Burroughs * Russian title of the 1997 film ''The Thief'' * '' VOR: The Maelstrom'', a science fiction miniature wargame * VOR, a search engine and media company in the ''Doctor Who'' episode " Spyfall"


Other uses

* The goddess
Vör In Norse mythology, Vör (Old Norse: ''Vǫr'', possibly "the careful one,"Simek (2007:368). or "aware, careful"Orchard (1997:181).) is a goddess associated with wisdom. Vör is attested in the ''Prose Edda'', written in the 13th century by Snorri S ...
in Norse mythology * vor, ISO 639-3 code for the Voro language of Nigeria *
Version of record The version of record of an article is the fully copyedited, typeset and formatted copy of a manuscript as published. The terminology is used in a wide variety of written media (e.g. books, journals, monographs). Description For print documents ...
, a fixed copyedited, typeset and formatted manuscript


See also

* Vor v zakone, or ''thief in law'', a rank in the Russian Mafia {{disambiguation