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. |