aor

American  

1. angle of reflection.

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AOR British  

abbreviation

1. album-oriented rock

2. adult-oriented rock

3. album-oriented radio

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Example Sentences

“No genre of music more than AOR,” or album-oriented rock, “has been so widely misunderstood, so consistently scorned,” writes Mr. Rees.

From The Wall Street Journal

The term AOR originated in the late ’60s with the ascent of FM radio, when rock stations began deviating from the Top 40 format and played some more-obscure album cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal

“FM was all about fidelity,” says Lee Abrams, an AOR radio executive.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Mr. Rees’s telling, AOR represents the power-pop sound that delivered hits for young talents such as Bryan Adams, Pat Benatar and Rick Springfield as well as veterans in search of reinvention—Chicago, Heart and Jefferson Starship.

From The Wall Street Journal

AOR grabs pairs of electrons from an electrode and uses them to add an energy-rich chemical bond to a starting compound called propionate, converting it to propionaldehyde.

From Science Magazine