Abbreviation for nitromethane. The addition of nitromethane in fuel provides more power, and a smoother idle, thus making the engine easier to tune. The nitro also makes an engine require more careful tuning, therefore, the amount of nitro added to a fuel results in a tradeoff. Common nitro mixes vary from 0% to 30% and beyond.

Nitromethane, commonly used in racing-fuel blends.

Nitro methane, commonly used in racing-fuel blends.

Nitro was a Glam Metal band formed by singer Jim Gillette and guitarist Michael Angelo Batio in Phoenix, Arizona in 1987.

Nitro is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in Captain Marvel (1st series) #34 (September 1974) and was created by Jim Starlin.

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

Nitro is a steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. It was opened in the spring 2001 and was the tallest roller coaster in New Jersey at the time (this title now belongs to Kingda Ka, which can also be found in Six Flags Great Adventure), as well as the tallest on the East Coast of the United States.

Nitro is a Ruby based web application framework. Created by George Moschovitis, Nitro is written in Ruby and uses Ruby syntax, Ruby concepts; the templates use a Ruby based rHTML markup similar to PHP or ASP. Nitro features support for Ajax, XML, web services and syndication while staying standards compliant.

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.

A chemical which is used as a smokeless propellant.

a big heavy stable boat

a class of organic compounds characterized by the presence of the −NO2 functional group.

A short term used for nitromethane.

Nitroglycerin.