In astronomy, Polaris is a star more commonly known as the North Star.

Polaris may also mean:

Astronomy

• Polaris Australis, a star that is currently the South Star, Sigma Octantis

Business

• Polaris Award, a recognition given by IFALPA to airline crews for acts of exceptional airmanship or heroism
• Polaris Fashion Place, a mall in Columbus, Ohio.
• Polaris Industries, manufacturer of all-terrain vehicles (ATV), snowmobiles, Ranger utility vehicles, and other offroad vehicles as well as Victory brand motorcycles.
• Polaris Mine, the most poleward base-metal mine in the world located at Little Cornwallis Island
• Polaris Software Lab, an Indian financial software company
• Polaris World, Spanish holiday property
• Polaris, Turkish clog and slipper manufacturer.

Computing

• Polaris, artificial intelligence program developed to play Texas Hold'em variant of poker.
• Polaris operating system, a PowerPC port of the Solaris Operating System
• POLARIS experimental 80-core chip from Intel Corporation.
• POLARIS database, Province of Ontario Land Registration Information System, managed by Teranet
• Polaris (computer security), a system for running Microsoft Windows applications with limited authority
• Polaris insurance software
• The codename for version 11 of the Windows Media Player, released in 2006

Culture

• Polaris (Convention), an annual science fiction convention held in Toronto, Canada.

Written

• Polaris (comics), a superheroine in Marvel comics.
• "Polaris" (short story), by H. P. Lovecraft
• Polaris, a science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt
• Polaris, A screenplay by the great eastern playwright Cho-Tse-Mung

Music

• Polaris (band)
• "Polaris", a song by the rock band Jimmy Eat World, taken from the album Futures.
• "Rust in Peace...Polaris", a song from the "Rust in Peace" album by thrash metal band Megadeth.
• Polaris (album), is an album by South Korean singer Kangta.
• Polaris (song), is a song by the British band Ash, taken from their album Twilight of the Innocents.
• Polaris Music Prize, a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label.

Games

• Polaris (arcade game)
• Polaris (role-playing game), actually several role-playing games.

Weapons and Ships

• Polaris (ship), ship of Charles Francis Hall's third Arctic expedition
• Polaris ballistic missile
• CC-150 Polaris, a Canadian military transport plane derived from Airbus A310.

History

• Operation Stella Polaris, Finnish radio intelligence

Science

• Polaris is the name given to a highly advanced multi-channel signal analyzer (laboratory equipment) used in radiation spectroscopy and detection experiments (MFG:XIA).

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