Iris

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Iris typically refers to:

• Iris (mythology), in Greek mythology, a messenger god and the personification of rainbows
• Iris (plant), a genus of flowering plants
• Iris (given name), a popular given name for girls
• Iris (color), an ambiguous color ranging from blue-violet to violet, from the flower of the same name
• Iris (anatomy), the sphincter around the pupil of the eye, named for the colors in human and animal eyes

Iris may also refer to:

Places

• Iris, California, in Imperial County
• Yeşil River, called Iris (Ίρις) by the Greeks
• Iris, Cluj-Napoca, a district in Romania

In arts and entertainment

In music

• Iris (Romanian band), a hard-rock band
• Iris (British/French band), an instrumental rock band
• Iris (electropop band)
• Iris (opera), an opera by Pietro Mascagni
• "Iris" (song), a song by The Goo Goo Dolls from the film City of Angels, covered by New Found Glory and Ronan Keating
• Iris (EP), by the band Miranda Sex Garden
• "Iris" (Split Enz song)
• "Iris", a song by American band Live from their album Throwing Copper

Fictional characters

• Iris, a fictional queen in Piers Anthony's Xanth novels
• Iris (Mega Man), a fictional character in the video game Mega Man X4
• Iris, a fictional character in the video game Megaman Battle Network 6
• Iris, a pre-teen prostitute played by Jodie Foster in the 1976 film Taxi Driver
• Iris, a fictional character in the series Ruby Gloom
• Iris, a tentacled mutant Gyaos from the 1999 kaiju film Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
• Iris Irine, a fictional character in the manhwa series, Ragnarok

In other arts and entertainment

• Irises (painting), a painting of iris flowers by Vincent Van Gogh
• Iris (film), a film about Irish novelist Iris Murdoch
• Iris (game), a game created to promote the video game Halo 3
• Iris (TV channel), an Italian movie TV channel
• Iris (Stargate), a mechanical iris seen on the television show Stargate SG-1

In science and technology

In science

• Iris, a genus and subgenus of flowering plants, named for the Greek mythological figure
• Iris, a genus of insects of the praying mantis family, in the subfamily Mantinae
• 7 Iris, an asteroid named after the mythological figure
• Iris Nebula, a reflection nebula, NGC 7023
• Iridescence, an optical phenomenon in which hue changes with the angle at which a surface is viewed
• Iris recognition, a personal identification technique that identifies an individual via the human iris

Technologies

• Diaphragm (optics), a mechanical device found in cameras, which mimics the function of the biological iris
• Iris (diaphragm), any such mechanical device, as used in doors, pipes, or electrical engineering
• Iris printer, a true color inkjet printer used for industrial prepress proofs and fine art printing
• Iris Browser, a web browser for Windows Mobile devices, phones and PDAs
• Iris XMPP Library, a Qt/C++ library for working with the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) protocol
• Iris Mote, a ubiquitous wireless sensor network device

In transportation

• HMS Iris, six historical warships of the British Royal Navy
• USS Iris, any of several ships in the US Navy that have been named after the mythological figure
• The Abraham Iris, a touring plane built in France before World War II
• The Blackburn Iris, a British military flying boat first flown in 1926
• The MV Royal Iris of the Mersey, name of two Mersey Ferries operating on the River Mersey, England

Other uses

• Tropical Storm Iris, any of several tropical storms
• Iris Associates, the company which developed Lotus Notes
• Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness
• The Iris Project, an educational charity
• Sheffield Iris, a defunct newspaper in England

See also

• IRIS (disambiguation)

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