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Castor most commonly refers to:

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• Castor (star), a star in the Gemini constellation
• Castor, a genus name of the beaver
• Castor, one of the Dioscuri/Gemini twins Castor and Pollux in Greco-Roman mythology
• Caster or castor, a small undriven wheel

Castor or CASTOR may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Castor (rocket stage), a family of solid-fuel rocket stages
• Castor (software), data binding framework for Java
• CASTOR (nuclear waste), proprietary cask
• CASTOR experiment, "Centauro and Strange Object Research" at CERN
• CASTOR (spacecraft), proposed space telescope
• Castor sugar, fine sugar
• Caster or castor angle, relevant to a steered wheel

People

Places

• Castor, Alberta, Canada
• Queue de Castor River, Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, Jamésie, Nord-du-Québec, Canada
• Rivière aux Castors Noirs, river in Quebec, Canada
• Castor River (Ontario), Ontario, Canada
• Castor, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States
• Castor Creek (Little River tributary), Louisiana, United States
• Castor High School, Castor, Louisiana, United States
• Castor River (Missouri), United-States
• Castor (mountain), in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy
• Castor Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
• Castor, Cambridgeshire, England
• Castor Temple, a summit in the Grand Canyon, United States
• Castor, an old name for Caistor St. Edmund, Norfolk, England
• Castor (crater) on Saturn's small moon Janus

Other uses

• Castor (band), American rock band
• Castor (cloth), a woollen fabric
• Castor (trucks), a brand used by Swedish truck manufacturers Tidaholm in the 1910s
• Castor Cracking Group, Swedish music group
• HMS Castor, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
• HSwMS Castor, the name of more than one ship of the Swedish Navy
• Castor (1782 ship), a vessel launched in 1782 that made one voyage to Bengal for the British East India Company and that was last listed in 1808.
• P901 Castor Belgian patrol ship Castor
• Castor gloves, gloves made from the skin of lambs or deer
• Castor hat
• Project Castor, a set of male clones in the TV series Orphan Black
• Castore (brand), British sportswear and athletic clothing company
• Castor (1917 ship), 1917 Polish tugboat

See also

• Caistor, a town and civil parish situated in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England
• Caster (disambiguation)
• Castro (disambiguation)
• Gastor (disambiguation)
• Kastor (disambiguation)

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