Titan (disambiguation)
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
(Redirected from Titan)
Titan, a word that indicates immense size, can mean many things:
[edit]
Mythology
- In Greek mythology the Titans were the giant divine beings who preceded the Olympian gods.
- In Roman mythology, the Greek god Ouranos (Uranus) has been referred to as Titan
- In Hindu mythology, the asuras are commonly translated as the titans
[edit]
Science
- Titan is the planet Saturn's largest moon.
- The Titan rocket family.
- The Titan was the prototype Atlas 2 computer developed in the early 1960s in a collaboration between Ferranti and University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory.
[edit]
Sports
- The Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (formerly the Houston Oilers, they left Texas for Memphis and eventually settled in Nashville, where they were rechristened.)
- The New York Jets of the NFL were originally known as the New York Titans of the American Football League.
- Denzel Washington played a high school football coach in the film Remember The Titans.
- The Acadie-Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
[edit]
Fantasy and science fiction
- Titan is a fantasy war board game manufactured by Avalon Hill.
- Titan A.E. is an animated sci-fi space adventure movie.
- Titan is the title of a science fiction novel written by Stephen Baxter.
- Titan is the title of the first book in the Gaian Trilogy, written by SF author John Varley.
- Titan is the name of the Fighting Fantasy Game Books world that was created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
- Titans in the tabletop strategy game Warhammer 40,000 are massive mechs armed with powerful weapons.
- Titans (or Asuras) can refer to beings in Asura realm.
- The Titans were an elite counter-insurgency group in the anime Zeta Gundam.
- The Titans are a race of beings that created the Warcraft universe.
- The Teen Titans are a group of DC superheroes.
- In the Marvel Universe Titan is the home of the Eternals of Titan.
- Titans are a race of giant mantis-locust-like aliens in an adventure of Yoko Tsuno.
- In Frank Herbert's novel, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, the Titans are a group of immortal cymeks, each being named after a figure in Greek/Roman mythology.
[edit]
Companies and products
- Titan Corporation, a private military contractor
- Titan is the name of an airline.
- Titan is the name of a German company which produced heavy duty tractors based on standard tractors by MAN and Mercedes-Benz.
- Titan is the name of Nissan's new full size pick up truck.
- Titan is the name of Leyland's double-deck buses produced in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Titan is the brand name watches, owned by the Tata Group.
- Titan Books is a UK publisher of graphic novels.
[edit]
See also
da:Titanhe:טיטאןja:タイタン ko:티탄 lb:Titan hu:Titn nl:Titaan pl:Tytan ru:Титан fi:Titan zh-min-nan:Titan
