Rhino
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Rhino is a colloquial abbreviation of rhinoceros
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros , also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia....



"Rhino" may also refer to:

Entertainment

  • Rhino (comics)
    Rhino (comics)
    The Rhino is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita, Sr., the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #41 The Rhino (Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich) is a fictional character that appears in comic...

    , a character from the Marvel Comics universe and sometime-foe of Spider-Man
  • Rhino (Warhammer 40,000), a vehicle from the tabletop miniatures game Warhammer 40,000
  • Rhino!, a 1964 film
  • Rhino Entertainment
    Rhino Entertainment
    Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company. It is owned by Warner Music Group.-History:Rhino was originally a novelty song and reissue company during the 1970s and 1980s, releasing compilation albums of pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues successes...

    , a record label company
  • Rhino, heavy Soviet tank in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
    Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
    Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is a 2.5D real-time strategy computer game by Westwood Studios, which was released for Microsoft Windows on October 23, 2000 as the follow-up to Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Set in the early 1970s, Red Alert 2 supposedly picks up at the conclusion of the Allied...

  • Rhino, tanks appearing in the Grand Theft Auto (series)
    Grand Theft Auto (series)
    Grand Theft Auto is a multi-award-winning British video game series created in the United Kingdom by Dave Jones, then later by brothers Dan Houser and Sam Houser, and game designer Zachary Clarke. It is primarily developed by Edinburgh based Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games...

     of video games from Grand Theft Auto 3 to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Rhino, Doom Thrash metal band from Spain
  • Rhino, a character from Bolt (2008 film)

People

  • Rhino (wrestler) (sometimes spelled Rhyno); the ring name of professional wrestler Terry Gerin
  • Rhino, the stage name of Mark Smith (Gladiator)
    Mark Smith (gladiator)
    Mark Smith is an English Actor and body builder who starred as 'Rhino' on the popular ITV show, 'Gladiators'.-Career:...

     from the British show Gladiators
  • John Edwards (musician), bass player for the rock band Status Quo, commonly nicknamed Rhino
  • Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, guitarist for Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond
  • Rhino, the nickname of ex Millwall Defender Keith Stevens
    Keith Stevens
    Keith Henry "Rhino" Stevens is an English former professional footballer.He spent his entire first-class playing career with Millwall, making his debut in a Third Division fixture against Oxford United in April 1981, when still only 16 years old...

  • Rhino, the stage name of Kenny Earl Edwards
    Kenny Earl
    Kenny Earl "Rhino" is an American musician, best known as the ex-drummer for Manowar, which he joined in 1990. He is currently the drummer of Angels of Babylon-References:...

    , heavy metal drummer in the band HolyHell
    HolyHell
    HolyHell is a power metal band, formed in 2005, who are being produced by Joey DeMaio of Manowar. The band has delayed the release of their debut album, choosing instead to tour with Manowar and Rhapsody of Fire....

    , formerly with the band Manowar
  • Doug Marshall
    Doug Marshall
    Doug Garrett Marshall is an American mixed martial artist from Visalia, California who currently competes as a middleweight. He is a former WEC World Light Heavyweight champion.-Mixed martial arts career:...

     (Doug "The Rhino" Marshall), American mixed martial artist
  • Rhino, the nickname of ex-Everton footballer David Unsworth
    David Unsworth
    David Gerald Unsworth is an English former footballer who played in the position of centre-back or left-back, and is currently first team coach at Preston North End....

  • Rhino, the Terrorist fighting super hero The Rhino
    The Rhino
    The Rhino may refer to:*Rhino , a Marvel Comics supervillain and a frequent adversary of Spider-Man and occasionally the Hulk*"The Rhino", a song by Quasi from their album When the Going Gets Dark*The Rhino, a terrorist fighting super hero. Rhino...

  • Rino "The Rhino" Eriksen, survivor of the 2010/2011 winter of Høyborgen

Military vehicles

  • Rhino APC was a land mine-protected armoured personnel carrier
    Armoured personnel carrier
    An armoured personnel carrier is an armoured fighting vehicle designed to transport infantry to the battlefield.APCs are usually armed with only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortars...

     used in South Africa
  • Rhino Heavy Armoured Car
    Rhino Heavy Armoured Car
    Car, Armoured, Heavy , also known as Rhino, was an armoured car designed in Australia during the Second World War. Due to enemy action and design problems the project never got beyond a prototype stage.-History and description:...

    , an experimental World War II armoured car
  • Rhino Runner
    Rhino Runner
    The Rhino Runner is a type of armored bus used extensively in Iraq, especially on the infamous Route Irish between Baghdad International Airport and The Green Zone. It is a customized vehicle created by Labock Technologies, which was purchased in 2008 by another company called Advanced Blast...

    , an armored bus
  • Rhino, a common nickname for the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
    F-4 Phantom II
    The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a tandem two-seat, twin-engined, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor fighter/fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft. It first entered service in 1960 with the U.S. Navy. Proving highly adaptable,...

     fighter aircraft
  • Rhino, an informal name of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
    F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
    The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a twin-engine carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft. The F/A-18E single-seat variant and F/A-18F tandem-seat variant are larger and more advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and D Hornet. The Super Hornet has an internal 20 mm gun and can carry air-to-air...

    , used to lessen confusion between earlier models of the aircraft
  • The Nashorn
    Nashorn
    Nashorn , initially known as Hornisse , was a German tank destroyer of World War II. It was developed as an interim solution in 1942 and was armed with the outstanding Pak 43 anti-tank gun...

     tank destroyer, has the German name for Rhinoceros

Sport

  • Leeds Rhinos
    Leeds Rhinos
    Leeds Rhinos is an English professional rugby league football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The club won the 2011 Super League and became the most successful club in the Super League era, beating St Helens 32-16 on 8th October 2011. Formed in 1890, Leeds competes in Europe's Super League...

    , a rugby league team in Leeds, England
  • Rochester Rhinos, a soccer team in Rochester, New York, USA
  • The Rhinos, the nickname for the South Africa national rugby league team
    South Africa national rugby league team
    The South Africa national rugby league team are a growing force in rugby league football, South Africa competes sporadically against other international nations because of their location and their absence from any major international competitions. They are ranked twenty-third in the world...

  • The Rhinos, the successful junior team of the Blackburn North Baptist Soccer Club (2009-U15, 2010-U16, 2011-U17), which played in the Victorian Churches Soccer Association in Melbourne
  • Hampton Roads Rhinos
    Hampton Roads Rhinos
    The Hampton Roads Rhinos were a proposed National Hockey League expansion team in the late-1990s to play in Norfolk, Virginia. The franchise would be under the ownership of George Shinn and play in a proposed $142 million arena to be constructed in Downtown Norfolk...

    . a proposed expansion team to the National Hockey League.

Technology

  • Rhino (JavaScript engine)
    Rhino (JavaScript engine)
    Rhino is an open source JavaScript engine. It is developed entirely in Java and managed by the Mozilla Foundation. The Foundation also provides another implementation of JavaScript engine written in C known as SpiderMonkey....

    , a JavaScript engine from Mozilla
  • Rhinoceros 3D
    Rhinoceros 3D
    Rhinoceros is a stand-alone, commercial NURBS-based 3-D modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. The software is commonly used for industrial design, architecture, marine design, jewelry design, automotive design, CAD / CAM, rapid prototyping, reverse engineering as well as the...

    , a 3-D modeling software
  • Rhino, a commercial, carrier-grade JSLEE
    JSLEE
    A Service Logic Execution Environment is a well known concept in the telecommunications industry. A SLEE is a high throughput, low latency event processing application environment...

     (Java Service Logic Execution Environment) from OpenCloud

Other

  • RHINO (squat)
    RHINO (squat)
    RHINO was a famous squat in Geneva, Switzerland. It occupied two buildings on the Boulevard des Philosophes in downtown Geneva, a few blocks away from the main campus of the University of Geneva. RHINO housed about seventy people before its evacuation in July 2007 and had been occupied by the...

    , the oldest squat in Geneva (Switzerland)
  • A Greek prefix referring to the nose, such as in rhinoplasty
    Rhinoplasty
    Rhinoplasty , also nose job, is a plastic surgery procedure for correcting and reconstructing the form, restoring the functions, and aesthetically enhancing the nose, by resolving nasal trauma , congenital defect, respiratory impediment, and a failed primary rhinoplasty...

  • Chiappa Rhino
    Chiappa Rhino
    The Chiappa Rhino is a revolver produced by Chiappa Firearms of Italy chambered for the .357 Magnum cartridge. Its most distinctive feature is that the barrel is on a low axis compared to most other revolvers, since it fires from the lowermost chamber of the cylinder, rather than firing from the...

    , an Italian-made revolver with a unique design
  • Yamaha Rhino
    Yamaha Rhino
    The Yamaha Rhino is an off-road vehicle made by Yamaha Motor Company. The 2-person four-wheel drive vehicles are in a unique class called "Side by Side", which is in-between the size of ATVs and Mini SUVs. The Rhino is gaining popularity in racing with customizations similar to the full-size vehicles...

    , a small off-road car
  • A British slang term for money
    Slang terms for money
    Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned...

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