Geon may refer to:
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Geon (geology)
The term geon (for geological eon) refers to large, geologic units of time.
Geologists traditionally subdivide Earth history into a hierarchy of named intervals: eons, eras, periods, etc. (e.g., the Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic Era). Histor ...
, a time interval
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Geon (Korean name), a Korean masculine given name
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Geon (physics)
In theoretical general relativity, a geon is a nonsingular electromagnetic or gravitational wave which is held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy. They were first investigated theoretically in ...
, a hypothetical gravitational wave packet
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Geon (psychology) Geons are the simple 2D or 3D forms such as cylinders, bricks, wedges, cones, circles and rectangles corresponding to the simple parts of an object in Biederman's recognition-by-components theory. The theory proposes that the visual input is matc ...
, a geometrical primitive out of which everyday objects can be represented
*Geon, short for
geonim
''Geonim'' ( he, גאונים; ; also Romanization of Hebrew, transliterated Gaonim, singular Gaon) were the presidents of the two great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia, Babylonian Talmudic Academies of Sura Academy , Sura and Pumbedita Academy ...
, rabbis in the medieval era
*Geon, a character from the ''
King of the Monsters'' series of video games
*''
Geon: Emotions'', a video game for Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service
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''Geon'' (video game), for PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network and Nintendo Wii
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