Gossamer

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Gossamer commonly refers to:

• Fine spider silk used by spiderlings for ballooning or kiting
• Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric

Gossamer may also refer to:

Technology

• Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight
• Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr. Paul B. MacCready's AeroVironment
• The code name of the motherboard used in first-generation Apple G3 Macs

Music, literature and television

• The Gossamer Years, an English title for the Japanese classical work of literature Kagerō Nikki
• Gossamer (novel), a 2006 novel by Lois Lowry
• Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter in his collection Vacuum Diagrams and The Hard SF Renaissance anthology
• Gossamer (Looney Tunes), a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons
• The Gossamer Project or Gossamer Archive, a large X-Files fan fiction archive
• "Gossamer", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the tour for Zeitgeist but not released on the album
• "The Gossamer Strand", an instrumental song by Deadsoul Tribe from the album A Lullaby for the Devil
• "Gossamer Thread", a song by David Gray from the album Foundling
• Gossamer (album), by Passion Pit
• Gossamer Witchcraft (album), by Blackthorn

Other uses

• Lycaenidae, gossamer-winged butterflies
• Euphaeidae, "gossamer-wings" (damselflies)
• Gossamer, a golden ale produced by the Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago
• The gossamer rings of Jupiter

See also

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Gossamer.