Gnome

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A gnome is a fictional humanoid creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean lifestyle.

GNOME is desktop environment software for computers running Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

Gnome or GNOME may also mean:

• Gnome is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the Mana series. He represents the earth element.
• Gnome (Dungeons & Dragons), a race in Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
  • Gnome (Dragonlance), a spin-off of the Dungeons & Dragons gnome
• Gnome (rhetoric), saying or maxim providing instruction in compact form
• "Gnomes" (South Park episode)
• Gnomes (film), a 1980 film
• Gnome (DC comics), a member of the DC Comics superhero team Elementals
• Gnomes (Discworld), the smallest humanoid species in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
• G-Nome, a PC game
• Gnomes of Zürich, disparaging term for Swiss bankers
• Gnome Engine Company, an aircraft engine manufacturer
• Gnome Press, a small-press publishing company known for publishing many science fiction classics (1948 - 1962).
• Rolls-Royce Gnome, an aircraft engine
• Project GNOME, a nuclear test in 1961
• Sky Gnome, a device for accessing radio channels and digital television
• The Gnome, a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd
• The Laughing Gnome, a novelty song by David Bowie
• Gandalf NOvice prograMming Environment, a former experimental programming environment from Carnegie Mellon ^[1]

Gnome may also be used for:

• Noldor, one of the tribes of Elves in Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, called Gnomes in Tolkien's early works
• Ramón Mercader, a foreign agent of the USSR codenamed GNOME, who assassinated Leon Trotsky
• GNO/ME, a shell for the Apple IIGS
• Gnome (comics), a villain appearing in the Marvel Comics series Nightmask

Notes

1. ^ Garlan, D. B. and Miller, P. L. 1984. GNOME: An introductory programming environment based on a family of structure editors. SIGPLAN Not. 19, 5 (May. 1984)

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