Dolphin (disambiguation)
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Dolphin may refer to:
- Dolphins, several species of aquatic mammal in the order Delphinidae.
- The dolphinfish or mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus.
- Several ships of the Royal Navy named HMS Dolphin, the most famous being the 1751 Dolphin, a survey ship which completed two circumnavigations.
- The anglicized rendering of the French feudal title dauphin.
- "Dolphins", the common name for the United States Navy's Submarine Warfare insignia.
- Several ships of the United States Navy named USS Dolphin.
- The Dolphin class of submarines of the Israeli Navy.
- The Eurocopter Dolphin Helicopter
- Miami Dolphins, an American football team.
- Dolphins, a South African cricket team based in Durban.
- Dolphins, an IMAX movie directed by Greg MacGillivray.
- Dolphin, a DC Comics superheroine.
- In a translation from Russian, "Dolphin" may occur as a translation of the Russian name "Delfin", which means "dolphin", and is also a Russian commando frogmen unit and the name of a submarine.
- In British placenames such as Dolphinholme, the word refers to the Old Norse man's name Dolgfinnr and not to the animal.
- Nintendo's codename for its 4th-generation game console, the GameCube.
- Dolphin GameCube emulator for Windows.
- A fixed man-made structure which is not connected to shore and is used to berth vessels against (a berthing dolphin) or mooring vessels to (a mooring dolphin).
- Code name for the Java SE 7 computer programming language and platform.
- Dolphin Mobile service, MTNL A mobile phone service provider in Mumbai, India.
- Dolphin Telecom - also known as Inquam Telecom - a mobile phone and walkie-talkie ("TETRA") network in Western Europe that shut down in July 2004.
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