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Osiris
Osiris
Osiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...

is an Egyptian deity.

Osiris may also refer to:

Astronomy:
  • Osiris (planet) or HD 209458 b, an extrasolar planet
  • Osiris (lunar crater), a lunar crater
  • Osiris (Ganymede crater), a crater on Ganymede
  • Osiris mission, a proposed NASA Discovery mission
  • OSIRIS
    OSIRIS
    OSIRIS is the name of three entirely separate astronomical instruments. The duplication of names is coincidental, partly driven by two scientific teams trying to make acronyms using similar words.-OH-Suppressing Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph:...

    , the name of several astronomical instruments
  • 1923 Osiris
    1923 Osiris
    1923 Osiris is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden, on Palomar Observatory Schmidt plates taken by Tom Gehrels.- External links :*...

    , an asteroid


Fiction:
  • Osiris (DC Comics)
    Osiris (DC Comics)
    Osiris is the name of three fictional characters published by DC Comics. The first appeared in 1994 as a foil for the Justice League. The second appeared under the Vertigo Comics imprint in a spin-off of The Sandman in 2002. The third debuted in the pages of Teen Titans and 52 in 2006.-Publication...

    , name of several fictional characters in the DC Comics universe
  • Osiris (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Osiris (Stargate), a character in the television show Stargate SG-1
  • Osiris (The Matrix), a hovercraft in The Matrix series


Organizations:
  • Osiris (journal)
    Osiris (journal)
    Osiris is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in the history of science. It is published by the University of Chicago Press and was established in 1936 by George Sarton....

    , a scholarly journal on the history of science
  • Osiris Shoes
    Osiris Shoes
    Osiris Shoes is a skate shoe company that was founded in 1996 by Tony Chen, Tony Magnusson, Brian Reid, Doug Weston and Laura Kim. They created the company when they saw a void in the skateboard industry for pro designed and endorsed footwear. -History:...

    , a skateboarding footwear company


Music:
  • Osiris (band), a progressive rock band from Bahrain
  • Osiris (symphony), written by Gamal El-Din Abdel Rehim


Other uses:
  • Osiris (genus)
    Osiris (genus)
    The cleptoparasitic bee genus Osiris is a rare group of apid bees from the Neotropics , that lay their eggs in the nests of bees in the related tribe Tapinotaspidini, such as Paratetrapedia...

    , a genus of cleptoparasitic bees
  • HMS Osiris
    HMS Osiris
    HMS Osiris was an that served in the Royal Navy.She was laid down in 1962 at Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow and launched in 1964. She was the third ship to bear this name....

    , an Oberon-class submarine in the Royal Navy
  • Osirak, an Iraqi nuclear reactor based on the French-designed Osiris reactor
  • Osiris, a South Devon Railway Comet class
    South Devon Railway Comet class
    The Comet class were 12 4-4-0 saddle tank broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway and associated railways. They were designed for passenger trains on this steep and sharply curved line but were also used on goods trains when required....

     steam locomotive
  • Osiris (Serverless Portal System)
    Osiris (Serverless Portal System)
    Osiris Serverless Portal System is a freeware program used to create web portals distributed via peer-to-peer networking and autonomous from centralized servers...

    , a freeware program used to create web portals distributed via peer-to-peer networking
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