Sentinel

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Sentinel may refer to:

Guards

• Border guard, a state agent who controls the security at borders

Buildings

• Sentinel Building (disambiguation), multiple
• Sentinel Secondary School, a school in West Vancouver, British Columbia
• The Sentinels, two residential block towers in Birmingham, UK

Business

• Sentinel (publisher), a book publisher
• Sentinel Sound, a reggae and dancehall sound system from Stuttgart, Germany

Computing

• Sentinel (FBI), an FBI software project replacing the failed Virtual Case File
• Sentinel node, an object to represent the end of a data structure
• Sentinel value, a flag value used to terminate a loop, a variable length list, or other analogous purpose

Mass media and entertainment

In art

• Sentinel (sculpture), a sculpture by Tim Tolkien
• Sentinels (Hudson), a public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson

In comics

• Sentinel (comic book), a comic book series
• Sentinel (comics), one of a group of mutant-hunting robots in the Marvel Universe
• Sentinel Prime, a fictional character in the Transformers universe, the original Autobot leader before Optimus Prime
• Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, who used the alias "Sentinel" at one point

In film

• The Sentinel (1977 film), a 1977 film based on the Jeffrey Konvitz novel
• The Sentinel (1992 film) (La Sentinelle in French), a 1992 film by the French director Arnaud Desplechin
• The Sentinel (2006 film), a thriller directed by Clark Johnson starring Michael Douglas
• A class of robots threatening ships in the Matrix series

In gaming

• The Sentinel (module), an adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons
• The Sentinel (video game), a 1986 game created by Geoff Crammond
• A 1984 computer game created by Bryan Brandenburg
• A 2004 computer game published by Detalion
• One of the two teams in Defense of the Ancients
• A paradigm role in Final Fantasy XIII
• A law enforcement-themed clan in Urban Rivals
• A group of super soldiers infected with a variant of the Chimera virus in Resistance 2
• A faction in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
• A character class in the Mass Effect universe

In music

Artists

• Sentinel (band)
• Jimmy Ridley and The Sentinels 1960s band

Albums

• Sentinel (album), an album by Nigel Mazlyn Jones
• "Sentinel" (instrumental), by Mike Oldfield
• The Sentinel (album), an album by Pallas

Songs

• A song by Alice Cooper on his album Dragontown
• A song by At The Throne of Judgment on their album The Arcanum Order
• A song by Hilltop Hoods on their album The Calling
• A song by Judas Priest on their album Defenders of the Faith
• A song by VNV Nation on their album Of Faith, Power and Glory
• A song by Celldweller on the album Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 2

In novels and short stories

• The Sentinel (anthology), a collection of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Sentinel (novel), a 1974 novel by Jeffrey Konvitz
• "The Sentinel" (short story), a 1951 short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• Gundam Sentinel, a 1987 serial "photo-novel"
• Sentinels novels, a series of novels by Van Allen Plexico

In newspapers

• The Sentinel (Staffordshire), published in Stoke-on-Trent, England
• The Sentinel, a weekly newspaper published in Sangamon County, Illinois
• Daily Sitka Sentinel, based in Sitka, Alaska
• Holland Sentinel, published in Holland, Michigan
• Knoxville News Sentinel, published in Knoxville, Tennessee
• Los Angeles Sentinel, published in Los Angeles, California
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Montgomery Sentinel, published in Montgomery County, Maryland
• Orlando Sentinel, published in Orlando, Florida
• St. Louis Sentinel, published in St. Louis, Missouri
• San Francisco Sentinel, published in San Francisco, California
• Santa Cruz Sentinel, published in Santa Cruz, California
• Smoky Mountain Sentinel, published in Hayesville, North Carolina
• Sun-Sentinel, published in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Broward County
• The Daily Sentinel (Colorado), based in Grand Junction, Colorado
• The Daily Sentinel (Texas), based in Nacogdoches, Texas
• The News-Sentinel, published in Fort Wayne, Indiana
• The Valley Sentinel, published in Valemount, British Columbia, Canada

In periodicals

• Christian Science Sentinel (originally The Christian Science Weekly)
• The Sentinel (Gauhati), published in Gauhati, Assam, India
• The Sentinel (Pennsylvania), published in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
• The CTC Sentinel

In student publications

• The Sentinel (KSU), published by Kennesaw State University
• The Sentinel, published by Melbourne High School
• The Sentinel, published by Journalism students at Heritage High School, Conyers, Georgia

In television

• Sentinel (Beast Wars), a computer in the TV show Beast Wars
• "The Sentinel" (Stargate SG-1), a TV episode
• The Sentinel (TV series), a US television series that ran from 1996 to 1999

Military

• Sentinel-class cutter, a Fast Response Cutter with the United States Coast Guard
• Sentinel tank, an Australian-built World War II Cruiser Tank
• MPQ-64 Sentinel, a radar used by the United States military
• Raytheon Sentinel, an aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and British Army
• RQ-170 Sentinel, USAF stealth drone officially acknowledged in early December 2009
• AN/GSQ-272 Sentinel, a United States Air Force weapons system

Places

• Sentinel, California
• Sentinel, Oklahoma
• Sentinel Island (disambiguation)
• Sentinel Islands, a pair of islands in the Andaman Islands

Mountains

• Sentinel Dome, not a mountain but a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California
• Sentinel Peak (Alberta)
• Sentinel Peak (Antarctica)
• Sentinel Peak (Arizona)
• Sentinel Peak (British Columbia)
• Sentinel Range, a mountain range in Antarctica
• Mount Sentinel, a mountain next to the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana

Science and technology

• Sentinel (satellite), GMES Sentinel satellites, Series of ESA funded Earth Observation satellites
• Sentinel (space telescope), an asteroid-hunting telescope being deployed by the B612 Foundation
• Animal sentinels, which give early indications to environmental hazards
• Sentinel lymph node, the first lymph node affected by a metastasising cancer
• The Sentinel series of US radioisotope thermoelectric generators

Transportation

Locomotives and lorries

• Sentinel Waggon Works, a British engineering firm that produced lorries and locomotives:
  • LMS Sentinels 7160-3
  • LMS Sentinel 7164
  • LMS Sentinel 7192
  • S&DJR Sentinels

Vessels

• Sentinel (steamboat), a small wooden steamboat associated with the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

See also

• Sentry (disambiguation)