Lynx (disambiguation)

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A lynx is a type of wild cat.

Lynx may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Lynx (constellation)
• Lynx (Chinese astronomy)

Places

• Lynx, Ohio, a census-designated place in the United States
• Lynx Lake (Arizona), a reservoir
• Lynx, Ontario, an unincorporated place and railway point in Canada
• Lynx Mountain, in the Canadian Rockies
• Lynx Lake (Northwest Territories), Canada
• Lynx Formation, a stratigraphical unit in western Canada
• Lynx Rocks, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

People

• Emcee Lynx (born 1980), anarchist hip hop artist from the San Francisco Bay Area
• Lynx Vaughan Gaede (1992-), a member of the American white nationalist folk teen duo Prussian Blue

Transport

Aviation

• Lynx Aviation (disambiguation), the name of more than one airline
• Westland Lynx, a British military helicopter manufactured by AgustaWestland
• Lynx (spacecraft), a rocket-powered spaceplane under development
• Lynx, the name of military versions of the Cessna Skymaster, flown by the Rhodesian Air Force
• AA-1C Lynx, part of the Grumman American AA-1 series of light aircraft
• Armstrong Siddeley Lynx, an early aircraft engine

Maritime

• HMS Lynx, the name of nine British Royal Navy ships
• Lynx, an American topsail schooner captured by the Royal Navy in 1813 and renamed HMS Mosquidobit (1813)
• Lynx (tall ship), an interpretation of the 1812 privateer schooner, launched in 2001
• USS Lynx, the name of more than three United States Navy ships
• USS Lynx II (SP-730), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
• French destroyer Lynx, scuttled in 1942 to avoid capture by the Germans
• French corvette Lynx (1804)

Military vehicles

• Panzer IIL Luchs (German for "Lynx"), a light reconnaissance version of the German Panzer II tank used during World War II
• Lynx reconnaissance vehicle, a U.S.-built vehicle used by the armed forces of Canada and the Netherlands
• Pansarbil m/39 Lynx, a Swedish armoured car used by the Swedish and Danish armies
• Lynx Scout Car, a Canadian–built version of the World War II Daimler Dingo
• Lynx, a version of the ERC 90 Sagaie, a French six wheeled fire-support and reconnaissance vehicle
• Iveco LMV, also called VTLM Lince (Italian for "Lynx"), a 4WD tactical vehicle developed by Iveco
• Lynx Family of Tracked Armoured Vehicles are a family of tracked armored vehicles developed by Rheinmetall Landsysteme

Road

• Leyland Lynx, a model of single-decker bus produced by British Leyland in the 1980s and 1990s
• Lynx (snowmobile), a brand of snowmobiles
• Lynx (Orlando), a bus system operated by the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority
• Mercury Lynx, a model of car
• Mitsubishi Lynx, a 1993 Mitsubishi Motors concept car
• A British automobile company specializing in replicas of Jaguar D-type and C-type race cars

Rail

• GWR no. 2109 Lynx, a South Devon Railway Eagle class steam locomotive
• Lynx Rapid Transit Services, a light rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina
• Lynx Express, a former long-distance passenger train and fast ferry service in the South Island of New Zealand

Business

• Lynx (grooming product), a brand of deodorant known as Axe in some markets
• Lynx, a brand of footwear owned by Colorado Group Limited
• LYNX Express (or simply LYNX), a UK parcel carrier, now owned by UPS
• Yashica Lynx, a family of rangefinder cameras from the 1960s

Computing

• Lynx (protocol), a protocol for efficient transfer of files over modems
• Lynx (web browser), a text-based web browser commonly used on Unix workstations
• Lynx (programming language), a programming language for large distributed networks using remote procedure calls
• Lynx Point, an Intel chipset
• LynxOS, an operating system
• Camputers Lynx, a British computer
• Lynx family of HP AlphaServers

Gaming

• Lynx (video game console), a handheld gaming console by Atari
• Lynx (Chrono Cross), a major character from the video game Chrono Cross
• Miyu, a playable character in the game Star Fox 2
• The Lynx, a vehicle in the science fiction video game Resistance: Fall of Man
• A term for a "NEXT Pilot" in Armored Core
• Mother Lynx and her cubs from Shelter 2

Sports

• Minnesota Lynx, a WNBA basketball team
• Toronto Lynx, a USL First Division soccer team
• Ottawa Lynx, a former AAA minor league baseball team
• Lynx du Collège Édouard-Montpetit women's ice hockey, a Quebec, Canada college hockey team
• Augusta Lynx, a minor league professional ice hockey team in Augusta, Georgia
• Saint-Jean Lynx, a defunct Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team
• Adirondack Lynx, an American women's soccer team
• Toronto Lady Lynx, a Canadian women's soccer team
• Perth Lynx, an Australian professional women's basketball team
• The Lynx, another name for the Slovenia men's national ice hockey team
• Lynx, name of the athletic teams and mascot of Lesley University, a private university in Massachusetts
• The Lynx, mascot for Rhodes College, a private college in Memphis, Tennessee
• Lynx, mascot of Lindenwood University – Belleville, Illinois

Other uses

• Lynx (mythology)
• Lynx (comics), three fictional characters in the DC Comics universe
• Lynx (magazine), a Japanese monthly literary magazine published by Gentosha Comics
• The Lynx gang, a violent criminal gang based in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• The Lynxes, a popular name for members of the Accademia dei Lincei, the first scientific society
• Finnish 5th Division (Continuation War) or Lynx Division, a unit of the Finnish Army
• Lynx point coloration, a type of pigmentation in cats

See also

• Lince
• Link (disambiguation)
• Linx (disambiguation)
• Lync or Microsoft Lync