Metis
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Metis can refer to a number of things:
- Metis meant "cunning" or "skill" in Ancient Greek. In the Odyssey, Homer plays upon the confusion between me tis, "nobody", and metis, one of Odysseus' traditional epithets.
- Metis (mythology), a Titaness and the first wife of Zeus
- Metis (moon), the innermost of Jupiter's known moons
- 9 Metis, an asteroid
- Métis, sometimes used to refer to Mestizo — people of mixed race
- Métis people, a Canadian ethnic group.
- Metis Shoal, the tip of a submarine volcano in Tonga, which occasionally erupts to form the temporary island Late'iki).
- Metis, a "shifter" born of two shifter parents in the world of the role-playing game Werewolf: The Apocalypse, published by White Wolf. Among most shifters they are deformed and sterile. Among werewolves, they are scorned and treated like second class citizens.
- Metis (modelling), an enterprise modelling tool
- Metis (software), a family of graph partitioning and matrix ordering algorithms.
- the AT-13 Metis-M, an anti tank missile
- Metis (reggae artist), a Japanese female reggae artist.
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