Mummer (disambiguation)
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Strictly speaking, a mummer
MUMmer
MUMmer is a bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment. It is based on the suffix tree data structure and is one of the fastest and most efficient systems available for this task, enabling it to be applied to very long sequences. It has been widely used for comparing different genomes...

is an actor in a traditional seasonal folk play. The term is also humorously (or derogatorily) applied to any actor.

Mummer may also refer to:
  • A participant in the New Year's Day Mummers Parade
    Mummers Parade
    The Mummers Parade is held each New Year's Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Local clubs compete in one of four categories . They prepare elaborate costumes and moveable scenery, which take months to complete...

     in Philadelphia, USA, and other similar festivals
  • A participant in the Newfoundland and Labrador Christmastime tradition of mummering
    Mummering
    Mummering is a Christmastime house-visiting tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador. Also known as mumming or janneying, it typically involves a group of friends or family who dress in disguise and visit homes within their community or neighbouring communities during the twelve days of Christmas...

  • A participant in Mummer's Day
    Mummer's Day
    Mummer's Day, or "Darkie Day" as it is sometimes known, is an ancient Cornish midwinter celebration that occurs every year on Boxing Day and New Year's Day in Padstow, Cornwall...

    , a midwinter celebration in Padstow, Cornwall, UK
  • A Mime artist
    Mime artist
    A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer was referred to as a mummer...

  • A member of the Summer Mummers
    Summer Mummers
    Summer Mummers is a yearly production presented at the historic Yucca Theater in downtown Midland, Texas. Running for three months out of every year , Summer Mummers celebrated its 60th year in 2008. There are typically 30 performances each summer. The nightly show consists of a locally-written...

     theatre group in Midland, Texas, USA
  • MUMmer
    MUMmer
    MUMmer is a bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment. It is based on the suffix tree data structure and is one of the fastest and most efficient systems available for this task, enabling it to be applied to very long sequences. It has been widely used for comparing different genomes...

    , a bioinformatics software system
  • Mummer (album)
    Mummer (album)
    Mummer is the sixth album by the group XTC which was released on 30 August 1983. It reached No. 51 on the UK album chart and No. 145 on the U.S. Billboard album charts....

    , an album by the group XTC
  • The Mummers
    The Mummers
    --93.97.101.13 11:31, 20 November 2011 'The Mummers' are a band based in the English seaside town of Brighton, centred around London-born singer/songwriter Raissa Khan-Panni, composer Mark Horwood ,'Mummers musician found hanged', The Argus, 18 September 2009 producer/writer Paul Sandrone and...

    , a band based in Brighton, England
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