Argus

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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
A variant spelling of King Argeus of Argos, the son of Megapenthes, and possibly the father of Anaxagoras.

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 (programming language), an extension of the CLU language, designed for distributed systems
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
Ferranti Argus, a line of industrial control computers

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, a Notorious Monster in the Final Fantasy XI MMORPG

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

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, an independent global provider of energy sector price information, market data and business intelligence.
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 major cycling event in South Africa, colloquially referred to as The Argus
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