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nexus (dict)

Nexus

• a place of being connected, something that connects two objects in a group, a connection between two things. (This is perhaps the most common use of the word.)

Computing / Internet

• a module that will run in parallel with the longhorn operating system that enables compatibility to the Fritz-chip.
• The main building of the Protoss in the computer game Starcraft
• a massively multiplayer online role-playing game named , as seen on its website here
• a computer game, released in 2004 by HD Interactive
• There is an online database called LexisNexis.
• the name of the first browser formerly know as WorldWideWeb

Literature & Science Fiction

• a novel by Henry Miller
• a spatial anomaly called The Nexus in the movie
• the group of planets linked together by wormholes which form the setting for Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga (this name has been adopted as the name for the official fan web-site)
• a comic book by Mike Baron and Steve Rude
• a journal edited by Kerry Bolton
• an international bi-monthly alternative news magazine Nexus magazine

Music

• a 1974 album by Argent called Nexus
• Nexus, a Toronto-based percussion ensemble

Organisations & Projects

• The operators of the Tyne and Wear Metro in north-east England (formerlly the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive)
• The student wing of the Institute of Physics - http://nexus.iop.org/
• The NEXUS Project of the Quebec Transhumanist Association

Other uses

• a legal transaction of the Roman Empire
• a slang term for the psychedelic entheogen 2C-B

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