Onyx (disambiguation)

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Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony (quartz).

Onyx can also be used to mean the color black, especially "jet" black.

Onyx may also refer to:

Locations

• Onyx, California, a census-designated place located in Kern County, California
• Onyx Cave, a common name for caves in the United States
• Onyx River, a meltwater stream in the Antarctic
• Onyx (planet), a fictitious planet in the Power Rangers Universe
• The titular fictitious planet in the novel Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

People

• Kyle McNeely, pro wrestler known by the ring name Onyx
• Onyx (comics), a fictional comic book character in the DC Universe, mainly associated with the Batman titles
• Onyx Von Trollenberg, a character from the animated series Trollz.
• Onyx Primal, a Predacon Assassin from the Transformers Beast Wars cartoon series.

Music

• Onyx (group), a Queens-based rap group
• The Onyx Hotel Tour, 2004 tour by pop singer Britney Spears

Organizations

• Onyx Software Corporation, a customer, process and performance management software company
• Onyx Graphics, large-format inkjet color management software company
• Onyx Grand Prix, a short-lived Formula One team, 1989-1990
• Onyx Environnement, the waste management division of Veolia Environnement
• Onyx Sports Cars

Technology

• SGI Onyx, a line of symmetric multiprocessing computers from Silicon Graphics that are frequently used for high-end graphics, modelling, and simulation work
• Synaptics Onyx, a concept cellphone designed to display Synaptics ClearPad technology.
• Onyx (satellite), a code name often associated with newer variants of the Lacrosse satellite, a series of reconnaissance satellite owned by the United States National Reconnaissance Office
• Onyx (interception system), a Swiss intelligence gathering system
• Onyx programming language, a BSD-licensed embeddable stack-based programming language
• Onyx-15, an adenovirus being researched for cancer treatment
• OnyX, a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for Mac OS X.

Vessels

• USS Onyx (PYc-5) a United States Navy patrol vessel of the mid-20th century
• HMS Onyx (S21), an Oberon-class submarine of the British Royal Navy

[edit] See also

• Onix, a fictional character in the Pokémon series.
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