Titan
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Titan may mean:
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Mythology
- Titan (mythology), giant divine beings who preceded the Olympian gods in Greek mythology
- Uranus (mythology), Roman deity sometimes referred to as "Titan"
- Asura, Hindu deities commonly translated as the "titans"
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Science
- Titan (moon), largest moon of the planet Saturn
- Titan (rocket family), a family of U.S. expendable rockets
- Titan (computer), prototype Atlas 2 computer developed in the early 1960s
- Titan beetle, the largest beetle in the world
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Sports
- Acadie-Bathurst Titan, hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
- Gold Coast Titans, National Rugby League team
- Titans cricket team, the Nashua Titans, a South African cricket team based in Centurion and Benoni
- Tennessee Titans, American football team in the National Football League
- California State University, Fullerton, NCAA university team
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Military
- USS Titan (AGOS-15), a ship in the United States Navy
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Fiction
- Titan A.E., an animated sci-fi space adventure movie
- Titan (Stephen Baxter), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
- Titan (novel), the first book in the Gaea Trilogy, by science fiction author John Varley
- Titans (comics), more commonly Teen Titans, a group of DC comics superheroes
- Titan (Comics Greatest World), a superhero turned supervillain in the Dark Horse Comics imprint Comics' Greatest World.
- Titan (Dune), a group of immortal cymeks, each named after a figure in Greco-Roman mythology, in Frank Herbert's The Butlerian Jihad
- USS Titan (Star Trek), a Starfleet ship in Star Trek
- Remember the Titans, 2000 film staring Denzel Washington
- Titans, an elite counter-insurgency group in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Titans (television series), starring Casper Van Dien and Yasmine Bleeth
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Art
- Symphony No. 1 (Mahler), nicknamed "Titan"
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Geography
- Titan, Bucharest, a neighbourhood
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Gaming
- Titan (game), a fantasy war board game
- Titan (world), the Fighting Fantasy Game Books world that was created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
- Titan (Warhammer 40,000), massive mechs armed with powerful weapons
- Titans (warcraft), a race of beings that shape worlds in order to encourage the development of sentient life
- Titan (1989 computer game), an obscure Arkanoid/Breakout-clone made by Titus
- Titan (business simulation), an online business simulation produced under Junior Achievement
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Companies and Products
- Titan Corporation, a private military contractor
- Titan Computing, an onsite IT support company for home users
- Titan (bus), Leyland's double-deck buses
- Titan (watches)
- Titan Books, a UK publisher of graphic novels
- Titan Bookstores, a chain of discounted schoolbook outlets in Malaysia
- Titan Motorsport, a UK-based company specialising in automotive and motorsport design and manufacture
- Titan Aircraft, a company specializing in ultralight aircraft kits
- Nissan Titan, a full-size pickup truck for the North American market
- Titan, a ship class in the MMORPG EVE Online
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See also
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