Argus (disambiguation)
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Argus primarily refers to one of several figures in Greek mythology.
The Argus is the name of several newspapers.
Argus may also refer to:
- Argus (bird), a kind of pheasant
- Argus distribution, a probability distribution used in particle physics
- Operation Argus, a 1958 test to create electron belts using atomic bombs
- Cape Argus Cycle Race, the largest individually timed cycling event in the world
- Argus monitor, (Varanus panoptes) a species of lizard
- Argus newspaper, Melbourne's most popular newspaper until the 1960s.
In technology:
- Argus (automobile), a German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909
- Argus (camera company), a brand of camera
- Argus Motoren, a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
- Argus (Software), a real estate appraisal software package
- Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, a fixed-model real-time flow monitor
- ARGUS, an aqueous homogeneous nuclear reactor at the Russian Research Centre, Kurchatov Institute.
- Argus Rentals, a car rental company
- argus, an automotive test software, developed at gedas deutschland GmbH and successfully used in Volkswagen concern in Europe (VW, Skoda, Audi (till 2006)).
In entertainment:
- Argus (album), a 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
- Argus (arcade game), a prototype-only arcade video game by Gottlieb also known as "Protector"
- Argus (comic), fictional character who has associated with The Flash in the DC comics universe
- Argus (warcraft), the ancestral homeland of the Eredar race in fictional Warcraft Universe
- Argus Filch, a fictional character in the Harry Potter series
- Argus, a demi-deity of the Mortal Kombat series.
- ARGUS, a private military contractor of the Splinter Cell series.
- the 15th colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus
Argus may also refer to one of several ships or vehicles:
- CP-107 Argus, a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
- HMS Argus, one of seven ships of the British Royal Navy
- RFA Argus (A135), an aviation training ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- USS Argus (1803), a brig of the United States Navy
- Fairchild Argus, a British version of the C-61 Forwarder light military transport aircraft
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