Aviation acronym: Instrument Rating Examiner
An ire or iro is a Nigerian woman's over-tunic consisting of a straight piece of printed cotton fabric draped and pinned into place.
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Institute of Radio Engineers. Units of measurement dividing the area from the bottom of sync to peak white level into 140 equal units. 140 IRE equals 1Vpp. The range of active video is 100 IRE.
Ire noun [ French, from Latin ira .] Anger; wrath. [ Poet.] Syn. -- Anger; passion; rage; fury. See Anger .
• (n.) Anger; wrath.
ire 1. Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins). 2. A feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance. 3. A strong emotion or anger. 4. Intense anger; wrath. 5. Anger; wrath; keen resentment; a word chiefly used in poetry.
anger, irritability, the deadly sin of wrath
[unit] An IRE is a unit used in the measurement of composite video signals. Its name is derived from the initials of the Institute of Radio Engineers. A value of 100 IRE was originally defined to be the range from black to white in a video signal. A value of 0 IRE corresponds to the voltage value of the signal during the blanking period. Th...