CASTOR

'Castor' may refer to:

Contents
Historical people
Fictional people
Science and Technology
Music
Places

Historical people



Julius Caesar Drusus, son of the Emperor Tiberius, nicknamed "Castor"

Castor of Rhodes, a Greek grammarian and rhetorician

Saint Castor, name of several Christian saints, such as Castor of Apt

★ A family name, see

Fictional people



Castor (mythology), one of the Gemini twins

Castor Oyl, a fictional character in the Popeye cartoons and brother of Olive Oyl.

★ the villain in the movie ''Face/Off'', Castor Troy, portrayed by Nicolas Cage before the surgery and John Travolta after the surgery.

Science and Technology



Castor (star), α Geminorum

Castor (software), a data binding framework for Java

Castor bean, a poisonous spurge seed

Castor oil, the oil of the castor bean

Castor angle, alignment in the vertical longitudinal plane of a motor vehicle's wheels

CASTOR at CERN is the acronym for CERN Advanced STORage manager, a data storage system used at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the European Laboratory for the Research in Particle Physics.

★ CASTOR, an acronym for "Centauro And Strange Object Research," a forward CMS calorimeter

CASTOR is the acronym for Cask for storage and transport of radioactive material (containers used to transport highly nuclear waste)

★ ''Castor'', the genus name of (and French word for) the beaver

★ the Castor (rocket stage)

★ a variant spelling of caster, a type of wheel

★ on the Saturnian moon Janus (moon)

★ a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive of the South Devon Railway Eagle class

Music



Castor (band), an independent rock band from Champaign, IL

Castor Cracking Group, a demo group from Sweden active on ZX Spectrum

Places



Castor Bay in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand

Castor Creek in Louisiana, United States

Castor (mountain), in the Pennine Alps

Castor River (Missouri)

Castor River (Ontario)

Castor, Alberta, Canada

Castor, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Castor, Louisiana, United States

★ an old name for Caistor St. Edmund, in Norfolk, United Kingdom

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