Argus

Argus may refer to:

Mythology

• Argus Panoptes (Argus "all eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes.
• Argus, son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe; succeeded Phoroneus as King of Argos.
• Argus, builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts
• Argus, the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope. Argus and his brothers set out to return to their grandfather's kingdom of Orchomenus, but were shipwrecked and rescued by the Argonauts
• Argus, the son of Phineus and Danaë, in a rare variant of the myth in which she and her two sons (the other being Argeus) travel to Italy
• A variant spelling of Argos, the faithful dog of Odysseus

Technology

• Argus (automobile), a German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909
• Argus (camera company), a brand of camera
• Argus (monitoring software), a network and systems monitoring application
• Argus Motoren, a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
• ARGUS Software, a commercial real estate appraisal, valuation and transaction software company
• Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, a fixed-model real-time flow monitor
• The ARGUS reactor, an aqueous homogeneous nuclear reactor at the Russian Research Centre, Kurchatov Institute

Entertainment

• Argus (album), a 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
• "The Argus", song by Ween on the album Quebec
• Argus (comics), fictional character who has associated with The Flash in the DC comics universe
• Argus, the ancestral homeland of the Eredar race in fictional Warcraft Universe
• Argus Filch, a fictional character in the Harry Potter series
• Argus, a deity of the Mortal Kombat series
• ARGUS (Splinter Cell), a private military contractor of the Splinter Cell series
• Argus, the 15th colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus
• Argus, a model of Mech in the Battletech universe and makes one of its first appearances in Mechwarrior 4
• "Argus (or "Argos") no Senshi" is the original Japanese title for Rygar (arcade game)
• Argus, a prototype-only arcade video game by Gottlieb also known as Protector
• Argus (Final Fantasy), a Notorious Monster in the Final Fantasy XI MMORPG

Transportation

• CP-107 Argus, a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
• HMS Argus, one of seven ships of the British Royal Navy
• RFA Argus (A135), an aviation training ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• USS Argus (1803), a brig of the United States Navy
• Fairchild Argus, a British version of the C-61 Forwarder light military transport aircraft

Other fields

• Argus (bird), pheasants from the genera Argusianus and Rheinartia
• Argus butterflies can be
  • Nymphalidae, e.g. Erebia, Junonia
  • Polyommatinae (Lycaenidae), e.g. as Aricia, Plebeius, Polyommatus
  • Theclinae (Lycaenidae): the invalid genus Argus (described by Gerhard, 1850), now in Satyrium
• Argus (described by Bohadsch in 1761): a gastropod genus nowadays called Platydoris
• Argus Corporation, a large Canadian holding company once controlled by Conrad Black
• Argus distribution, a probability distribution used in particle physics
• Argus monitor, (Varanus panoptes) a species of lizard
• Argus Media Ltd
• The Argus is the name of several newspapers
• Argus (automobile)
• Argus (camera company)
• Argus (monitoring software)
• Argus (arcade game)
• Argus (TV show)
  • The Cape Argus is a newspaper printed in Cape Town
• Cape Argus Cycle Race, a cycling event
• Operation Argus, a 1958 test to create electron belts using atomic bombs
• two systems for determining the Premiers of the Victorian Football League's competition in 1901, and from 1902 to 1930 respectively
  • Original Argus system
  • Amended Argus system,
• Argus Press, a British publishing company

See also

• Argos (disambiguation)
• The Argus

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