Dir

Dir, dir, or DIR may refer to:

• De Imperatoribus Romanis, an online biographical encyclopedia of the Roman emperors from 27 BC to 1453 AD
• Detroit International Riverfront, an area of Detroit, Michigan that borders the Detroit River
• Developmental, Individual differences, Relationship-based approach, a developmental intervention to autism developed by Stanley Greenspan
• Digitally Imported Radio, an internet radio station
• Digital Instrumentation Recorder, a magnetic tape format by Sony
• Department of Information Resources, an area of government or business that manages information and communications technology
• Division of Intramural Research, a division of the National Institutes of Health
• Doing It Right, a methodology for scuba diving

• An abbreviation for directory (file systems)
• dir (command), a shell command
• directory (OpenVMS command), an operating system command
• <dir></dir>, an HTML element, see HTML element#dir

• Dir, Pakistan, a town in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan
• Dir (princely state), a former princely state in the North-West Frontier Province, incorporated into Pakistan in 1969
• Dir District in the North West Frontier Province, in 1996 split into two districts:
  • Upper Dir, with its headquarters in Dir city, and
  • Lower Dir, with its headquarters in Timargara

• Australian Government Department of Industrial Relations (1978–1982)
• Australian Government Department of Industrial Relations (1987–1997)
• California Department of Industrial Relations
• Texas Department of Information Resources

• Dir (clan), one of the five major Somali clans.
• Askold and Dir, Viking rulers of Kiev.
• Paul di Resta, a Formula 1 racing driver.
• An abbreviation for executive director, the head of and organization or business.
• Dir En Grey, Japanese metal band.

• 1,1'-Dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3'-Tetramethylindotricarbocyanine Iodide (DiR or DiIC18(7)), a lipophilic carbocyanine near infrared fluorescent dye