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Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word Argos. It may refer to:

Technology

• Argus (automobile), a German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909
• Argus (camera company), a brand of camera
• Argus Coastal Monitoring, a video system for observing coastal processes and related phenomena
• Argus - Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, a network auditing system
• Argus - The all seeing, a network and systems monitoring application
• Argus (programming language), an extension of the CLU language designed for distributed systems
• Argus Motoren, a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
• ARGUS reactor, an aqueous homogeneous nuclear reactor at the Russian Kurchatov Institute
• Ferranti Argus, a line of industrial control computers
• Argus Retinal Prosthesis, a bionic eye implant manufactured by Second Sight
• ARGUS-IS, a wide-area surveillance system produced by BAE Systems

Entertainment

• Argus (album), a 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
• "The Argus", a song by Ween on the album Quebec
• Argus (comics), a fictional character who has associated with The Flash in the DC comics universe
• A.R.G.U.S., a fictional government agency in the DC comics universe
• Argus Filch, a fictional character in the Harry Potter series
• "Argus", an episode in the TV comedy series 30 Rock
• Argus, a fictional deity in the Mortal Kombat series
• ARGUS (Splinter Cell), a fictional private military contractor in the Splinter Cell series
• Argus (video game), a 1986 Famicom game by NMK
• "Argus (or "Argos") no Senshi", the original Japanese title for Rygar (arcade game)
• Argus, a prototype-only arcade video game by Gottlieb, also known as Protector
• Argus (TV series), a Norwegian TV debate series that aired between 1993 and 1994
• Argus, a Mexican metal band
• Argus, a fictional planet in the Warcraft computer game franchise.
• The Manhattan Argus, a fictional newspaper in the 1994 Coen brothers film, The Hudsucker Proxy

Military

• CP-107 Argus, a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
• HMS Argus, the name of many ships in the British Royal Navy
• RFA Argus (A135), a Primary Casualty Receiving Ship in Britain's Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• USS Argus, various ships of the United States Navy
• The French brig Argus, a French naval ship that took part in the Battle of Trafalgar
• Fairchild Argus, a British version of the C-61 Forwarder light military transport aircraft

Publishing

See The Argus (disambiguation) for publications named "The Argus"

• The Argus (Brighton), a newspaper serving Brighton and Hove, England
• Cape Argus, a newspaper printed in Cape Town, South Africa
• Argus Press, a British publishing company
• Argus, a newspaper in Albany, New York, which long functioned as the organ of the Albany Regency
• Argus Leader, American newspaper that covers Sioux Falls, South Dakota
• The Argus (Melbourne), former Australian newspaper of record, established in 1846 and closed in 1957.
• The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus, American newspaper that covers the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa
• Argus, Midwood High School's school newspaper
• Carlsbad Current-Argus, a New Mexico newspaper
• Livingston Daily Press & Argus, a newspaper that covers Livingston County, Michigan.

Biology

• Argus (bird), pheasants from the genera Argusianus and Rheinartia
• Argus butterflies, including:
  • 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 in the family Discodoridae
• Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes), a species of lizard

Other fields

• Argus contracting lp the best insulators in the world
• Argus, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Argus Corporation, a Canadian holding company once controlled by Conrad Black
• Argus distribution, a probability distribution used in particle physics
• Argus Media Ltd, a business information company
• Argus Range, a mountain range in Inyo County, California
• Cape Argus Cycle Race, a major cycling event in South Africa, colloquially referred to as The Argus
• Operation Argus, a 1958 US military effort to create orbital 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

See also

• The Argus (disambiguation), the name of several newspapers
• Argos (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages