Alien

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Template:Wiktionarypar Alien or Aliens may mean:

Extraterrestrial life, in scientific context
Extraterrestrial life in culture
Alien fictional universe:
- Alien (1979 film), by Ridley Scott
- Aliens (1986 film), the sequel to the above film
- Alien³ (1992 film), the third Alien movie
- Alien: Resurrection (1997 film), the fourth Alien movie
- Alien vs. Predator (2004 film), also a comic book series, novel series, and video game series
- Xenomorph (Alien), the alien creatures from the Alien movies
- Aliens (comic), a group of comic book series
Alien (biology), a non-native species
Alien (computing), a program that converts between different Linux package distribution file formats
Alien (law), in the US, a person who is neither a native nor a citizen of their country of residence (this term is not used outside the US for people from another country)
- resident alien - an alien (foreign national) in legal residence in another country
- illegal alien - an alien (foreign national) who did not legally enter another country
- enemy alien - an alien (foreign national) whose country is at war with the country they reside in
Alien (signifier), use in literature and criticism as the embodiment of an outside perspective or the sense of the other
The Aliens, Roky Erickson's backing band
Alien (game), a 1982 DOS text adventure
Aliens (album), an album by Irish celtic rock band Horslips
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