What is "nitro"

nitro \ni"tro\n. [By shortening of nitroglycerin.] Nitroglycerin.

abbreviation of nitroglycerine, 1935, slang.

a. (context chemistry English) containing the nitro group; such compounds tend to be unstable and often explosive n. 1 (context chemistry English) the univalent NO₂ functional group 2 (context informal English) nitroglycerin, especially as medication

Nitro is a steel roller coaster designed by Bolliger & Mabillard at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, United States. It opened on April 7, 2001, as the fastest roller coaster in New Jersey and the tallest on the East Coast of the United States. It has been ranked number three in the Golden Ticket Awards Best Steel Roller Coaster every year from 2007 to 2012. It was ranked number four in 2013.

Nitro is a top-down perspective arcade racer for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was developed and published in 1990 by Psygnosis.

Nitro was an American heavy metal band from Hollywood, California. The group was formed in 1987 by vocalist Jim Gillette, guitarist Michael Angelo Batio, bassist T. J. Racer (the three of whom had worked together on Gillette's debut solo album Proud to Be Loud) and drummer Bobby Rock. This lineup recorded the band's debut album O.F.R., released by Rhino Entertainment's Rampage Records in 1989.

Rock was later replaced by K. C. Comet (and subsequently Johnny Thunder), while Racer was replaced by Ralph Carter. Nitro released a second album, Nitro II: H.W.D.W.S., in 1991, before breaking up two years later. Following the band's breakup, a number of demo recordings were released on the M.A.C.E. Music compilation Gunnin' for Glory, which also featured songs by Batio's solo band.

Nitro is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Nitro is known by comic fans for playing a part in the death of the Kree superhero Mar-Vell. He is also best known for being part of the tragedy that started off Marvel's Civil War crossover.

Nitro from Conexant (originally developed by Intersil) is a proprietary 802.11g performance enhancement technology introduced in 2003 as part of the PRISM chipset. The first implementation was designed to help compensate for the performance loss of higher-speed 802.11g devices when they share a wireless network with slower 802.11b devices.

Later implementations are marketed as Nitro MX Xtreme which adds proprietary frame- bursting, compression and point-to-point side session technology for a claimed 140 Mbit/s throughput transmission speed. The point-to-point side session technology, called DirectLink, creates a connection between clients or from a client to a media source, such as a media server, and avoids the access point. It does this while staying in 802.11 Infrastructure mode so the client can continue to utilize access point-based security and power-savings.

Nitro is a Mexican professional wrestler active as a rudo in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Currently he is in a stable call Los Guerreros Tuareg. Nitro's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.

Nitro was a Spanish television channel owned by Atresmedia. Its programming was aimed towards a male audience.

Nitro is a free collaborative task management application. It can be used as stand-alone or cloud-based environment. It is developed in CoffeScript and therefore can be run on any platform that supports JavaScript. The layout of the frontend is similar to Wunderlist that was acquired by Microsoft in June 2015. In contrast to Wunderlist its source code is available under the open source BSD license.

Nitro is a 2007 Canadian action film. Directed by Alain Desrochers, the film stars Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge as Max, a former drag racer who is forced to return to his criminal past when his girlfriend (Myriam Tallard) requires a heart transplant. The film also stars Lucie Laurier as Morgane, a female drag racer who assists Max in his quest to locate a suitable organ for his girlfriend's surgery.

The film, which has not yet opened in English Canada, ranked #5 in national box office on its first weekend just on the strength of its $700,000 opening in Quebec. Within Quebec, the film outsold both Live Free or Die Hard and Ratatouille.