Pyro comes from the Greek word πῦρ (pyr), meaning ''

fire Fire is the rapid oxidation of a fuel in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction Product (chemistry), products. Flames, the most visible portion of the fire, are produced in the combustion re ...

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* Pyro Plastics Corporation, a plastic model kit maker 1940s through the 1970s *

Pyro Studios Pyro Mobile was a video game developer based in Madrid, Spain, established in 2012 as a merger between Play Wireless and Pyro Studios and eventually ceasing operations in the second half of 2017. It is mostly known for its real-time tactics game ...

, a computer game developer based in Madrid * NRK P3 Pyro, a Norwegian Internet-based music radio station

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* "Pyro" (song), by Kings of Leon, 2010 * "Pyro", a song by T.S.O.L. from their 2001 album '' Disappear'' * "Pyro", a song by Hail the Villain from their 2010 album '' Population: Declining'' * "Pyro", a song by the Standstills from their 2012 album '' Pushing Electric'' * "Pyro", a song by 2:54 from their 2014 album '' The Other I'' * "Pyro", a song by Shinedown from their 2018 album '' Attention Attention'' * "Pyro", a song by Budjerah from his 2021 self-titled EP * "Pyro (leak 2019)", a song by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats from their 2020 EP '' Unlocked'' *

Pyro (Marvel Comics) Pyro is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Known as St. John Allerdyce, Pyro is depicted as a recurring enemy of the X-Men and later becomes an agent of the U.S. government. He was ...

, 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 video game ''

Genshin Impact ''Genshin Impact'' is a 2020 action role-playing game produced by MiHoYo, MiHoYo/HoYoverse. The game features an anime-style open world environment and an action-based Role-playing battle systems, battle system using Classical element, element ...

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* Pyro (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse * Pyro, Ohio, United States *, two U.S. Navy ammunition ships *Short for

pyrotechnics Pyrotechnics is the science and craft of creating fireworks, but also includes safety matches, oxygen candles, Pyrotechnic fastener, explosive bolts (and other fasteners), parts of automotive airbags, as well as gas-pressure blasting in mining, q ...

*Slang for a person afflicted with

pyromania Pyromania is an impulse-control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires, to relieve some tension or for instant gratification. The term ''pyromania'' comes from the Greek word (''pyr'', 'f ...

, 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 PyTorch is a machine learning library based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing, originally developed by Meta AI and now part of the Linux Foundation umbrella. It is one of the mo ...

*Short for

Pyrogallol Pyrogallol is an organic compound with the formula C6H3(OH)3. It is a water-soluble, white solid although samples are typically brownish because of its sensitivity toward oxygen. It is one of three isomers of benzenetriols. Production and reac ...

, a chemical compound used as a black-and-white photographic film developing agent.

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