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