Metis

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Metis can refer to a number of things:

• Metis (mythology), a Titaness and the first wife of Zeus
• Metis (moon), the innermost of Jupiter's known moons
• 9 Metis, an asteroid
• Métis, sometimes used to refer to Mestizo — people of mixed race
• Métis people, a Canadian ethnic group.
• Metis Shoal, the tip of a submarine volcano in Tonga, which occasionally erupts to form the temporary island Late'iki (Metis Island).
• Metis, a "shifter" born of two shifter parents in the world of the role-playing game Werewolf: The Apocalypse, published by White Wolf. Among most shifters they are deformed and sterile. Among werewolves, they are scorned and treated like second class citizens.
• Metis (modelling), an enterprise modelling tool

There are also:

• Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec
• Grand-Métis, Quebec

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