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.

• The Cape Argus is a newspaper printed in Cape Town

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 Media Ltd

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 company
• Argus (monitoring software), a network and systems monitoring application
• 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 Health Systems, a pharmacy benefit management company
• argus (ta), an automotive test software, developed at gedas deutschland GmbH and successfully used in Volkswagen concern in Europe (VW, Skoda, Audi (till 2006))
• ARGUS coastal imaging system in use to monitor the health of sandy beaches.

In sport:

• Original Argus system and Amended Argus system, two systems for determining the Premiers of the Victorian Football League's competition in 1901, and from 1902 to 1930 respectively

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 deity of the Mortal Kombat series
• ARGUS, a private military contractor of the Splinter Cell series
• Argus, the 15th colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus
• Argus is a model of Mech in the Battletech universe and makes one of its first appearances in Mechwarrior 4
• "Argus (or "Argos") no Senshi" is the original Japanese title for the arcade and NES game Rygar.

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

[edit] See also

The Argus (Song)- By Ween on the album Quebec

• Argos (disambiguation)