Cage

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Cage may refer to:

Technology

  • Cage (enclosure), a structure made of mesh, bars or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something. Examples include:
    • Cage (BDSM), an enclosure used to confine a submissive in BDSM
    • Cage (bearing), a component of a rolling-element bearing
    • Batting cage, an enclosure for baseball players to practice batting
    • Bottle cage, a bicycle accessory used to affix a water bottle to a bike
    • Casino cage, the location where chips are exchanged to or from cash in a casino
    • Faraday cage, an enclosure formed by conducting material
    • Human rib cage, a part of the human skeleton within the thoracic area
    • Mine cage, similar to an elevator, used to transport miners and their equipment to/from the working face of a shaft mine
    • Reptile cage, a wooden or glass terrarium typically 12-48" long for housing lizards, snakes, and various domestic reptiles
    • Roll cage, a specially constructed frame built in or around the cab of a vehicle to protect the occupants from injury
    • Shark proof cage, used by scuba divers to examine sharks with better safety

Abstract concepts

  • Cage (graph theory), a regular graph in graph theory with the fewest vertices for a given girth and degree
  • Iron cage, a concept introduced by Max Weber

Acronyms

  • CAGE questionnaire, a screening tool for determining alcoholism.
  • Cap Analysis of Gene Expression, a molecular biology technique
  • CAGE, Commercial and Government Entity

People

  • "Christian Cage", a former ring name of Jason Reso, a Canadian-American professional wrestler
  • David Cage, founder of videogame development studio Quantic Dream
  • John Cage, experimental composer
  • Michael Cage, former NBA basketball player
  • Nicolas Cage, American actor
  • Steven Cage, member of the Conservative Party of Canada
  • Stuart Cage, English golfer
  • William Cage, English politician, MP for Rochester

Places

  • Cage, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Music and dance

Artists
Ballet
Songs

Fiction

  • Cage (film), a 1989 action film and its 1994 sequel, Cage II, both starring Reb Brown and Lou Ferrigno
  • "Cage" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • John Cage (character), a fictional character in the television show Ally McBeal
  • Johnny Cage, a fictional character from the Mortal Kombat series of video games
  • Luke Cage, a fictional character portrayed in Marvel Comics
  • Xander Cage, the protagonist in the film xXx, starring Vin Diesel
  • Cage Midwell, the protagonist of the video game Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars

See also

  • Caging (disambiguation)
  • The Cage (disambiguation)
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