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AR

adjectivenounproper nouncommon in dialogue

An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of autoregressiveInitialism of autoregressive.

Etymology

Abbreviation.

noun

  1. 1

    An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.

    In its August 2003 issue, while the ban was still in effect, Guns & Ammo ran a feature story titled “Stoner’s ‘Black Rifle’ Marches On,” subtitled “The basic AR platform has been refined, improved, upgraded, power-boosted and accurized.”

  2. 2

    informalAn assault rifle or automatic rifle.

  3. 3

    Variant of accounts receivableInitialism of accounts receivable.

  4. 4

    Variant of acknowledgment of receiptInitialism of acknowledgment of receipt.

  5. 5

    Variant of age regressionInitialism of age regression.

  6. 6

    Variant of augmented realityInitialism of augmented reality.

    Near-synonyms: MR, mixed reality, spatial computing, CPS, cyber-physical system

    (Cover started out as a company in the AR and VR business, but moved into the virtual talent sector; Ichikara is a startup designed to support their virtual talent)

  7. 7

    Variant of alternate realityslangInitialism of alternate reality.

  8. 8

    Variant of American recordInitialism of American record, national record for the United States.

  9. 9

    Variant of administrative rule or administrative regulationInitialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation.

    As I was going over the AR book for my status change, I read several other ARs I believed the institution was violating so I decided to ask about them at the meeting.

  10. 10

    Variant of androgen receptorInitialism of androgen receptor.

  11. 11

    Variant of area recordInitialism of area record, best achievement among those by persons from a given continent.

  12. 12

    Variant of armed robberyInitialism of armed robbery.

  13. 13

    Variant of artificial respirationInitialism of artificial respiration.

  14. 14

    Variant of aspect ratioInitialism of aspect ratio.

  15. 15

    Variant of assembly resolutionInitialism of assembly resolution.

  16. 16

    Variant of atmospheric riverInitialism of atmospheric river.

  17. 17

    Variant of aerial refuelingInitialism of aerial refueling.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of ArkansasAbbreviation of Arkansas: a state of the United States.

  2. 2

    Variant of Arunachal PradeshAbbreviation of Arunachal Pradesh: a state of India.

  3. 3

    Variant of American RevolutionAbbreviation of American Revolution

Forms

plural
ARs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).