Castor
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Castor may refer to one of the following:
- Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Leda and the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra of Greek mythology.
- Castor (α Geminorum), a star.
- Castor, a nickname for Drusus, the son of Roman Emperor Tiberius.
- Castor Oyl, a fictional character in the Popeye cartoons and brother of Olive Oyl.
- Castor, a variant spelling of caster, a wheel that will automatically align itself to the direction from which it is pushed.
- Castor angle, the angular displacement from the vertical axis of the suspension of a steered wheel in a vehicle.
- The castor bean, (a poisonous spurge seed) or its castor oil.
- Castor, the genus name of (and French word for) the beaver.
- Castor, a family name.
- The Castor Cracking Group, a demo group from Sweden active on ZX Spectrum.
- Castor, a data binding framework for Java. [1]
- CASTOR, an acronym for "Cask for the Storage and Transportation of Radioactive Material," a brand name for dry cask storage.
- CASTOR, an acronym for "Centauro And Strange Object Research," a forward CMS calorimeter.
- Castor, a crater on the Saturnian moon Janus.
- Castor was an independent band from Champaign, IL.
- A place:
- Castor, Alberta - a town in east central Alberta, Canada.
- Castor - a village near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
- Caistor St. Edmund, in Norfolk, United Kingdom - Castor being an old name for it.
- Castor, Louisiana, United States.