A lynx is a type of wild cat. Lynx may also refer to:

Astronomy

* Lynx (constellation) * Lynx (Chinese astronomy) * Lynx X-ray Observatory, a

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

-funded mission concept for a next-generation X-ray space observatory

Places

Canada

* Lynx, Ontario, an unincorporated place and railway point * Lynx Mountain, in the Canadian Rockies * Lynx Lake (Northwest Territories) *

Lynx Formation The Lynx Formation or Lynx Group is a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic unit of Late Cambrian (Dresbachian) Geochronology, age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is present in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and British Columbia. It was origina ...

, a stratigraphical unit in western Canada

United States

Lynx, Ohio Lynx is an unincorporated community in southwestern Brush Creek Township, Adams County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office with the ZIP code 45650. It is located along State Route 125. History A post office called Lynx has been i ...

, a census-designated place *

Lynx Lake (Arizona) Lynx Lake, Arizona, is a reservoir located within Prescott National Forest, approximately east of Prescott, Arizona, in the Bradshaw Mountains. The lake is located at elevation and is stocked for fishing. It is one of the most popular recrea ...

, a reservoir

Antarctica

* Lynx Rocks, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Transport

Vehicles

* Leyland Lynx, a model of single-decker bus produced by British Leyland in the 1980s and 1990s * Mercury Lynx, a model of car * Mitsubishi Lynx, a 1993 Mitsubishi Motors concept car * GWR no. 2109 Lynx, a

South Devon Railway Eagle class The ''Eagle'' class were sixteen broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway (SDR), Cornwall Railway (CR) and associated adjacent railways. They were designed for passenger trains on this steep and sharply curved line but were ...

steam locomotive * ''Lynx'' (tall ship), an interpretation of the 1812 privateer schooner, launched in 2001 * Lynx (snowmobile), a brand of snowmobiles * XCOR Lynx, a proposed rocket-powered spaceplane that was under development * AA-1C Lynx, part of the

Grumman American AA-1 The Grumman American AA-1 series is a family of light, two-seat aircraft. The family includes the original American Aviation AA-1 Yankee and AA-1A Trainer, the Grumman American AA-1B Trainer and TR-2, plus the Gulfstream American AA-1C ...

series of light aircraft

Companies and services

* Lynx (bus company), a bus company based in King's Lynn,

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the Nor ...

* Lynx (Orlando), a bus system operated by the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority * Lynx Air, a Canadian low cost carrier airline * Lynx Air International, an American airline * Lynx Aviation, an American regional airline from 2006 to 2011 * Lynx Rapid Transit Services, the public transit system in Charlotte, North Carolina * Lynx Express, a former long-distance passenger train and fast ferry service in the South Island of New Zealand

Military

* , nine British Royal Navy ships * ''Lynx'', an American schooner captured by the Royal Navy in 1813 and renamed * , several United States Navy ships * , 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) * Finnish 5th Division (Continuation War) or Lynx Division, a unit of the Finnish Army * Lynx reconnaissance vehicle, used by the armed forces of Canada and the Netherlands * Panhard AML-90 Lynx, a variant of the lightweight French AML-90 armoured car * 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 * Lynx (Rheinmetall armoured fighting vehicle), a family of tracked armored vehicles developed by Rheinmetall Landsysteme * Lynx, the name of military versions of the Cessna Skymaster, flown by the Rhodesian Air Force *

Westland Lynx The Westland Lynx is a British multi-purpose twin-engined military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil. Originally intended as a utility craft for both civil and naval usage, military interest led t ...

, a British military helicopter manufactured by AgustaWestland *

LYNX (multiple rocket launcher) Lynx is a multiple rocket launcher developed and manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI) and used by Israel Defense Forces and other countries. It can be configured to carry a variety of rockets in two sealed pod containers: 40 (2 pods x ...

, a multiple rocket launcher manufactured by Israel Military Industries

Businesses and brands

* Lynx Express (parcels) (or simply Lynx), a UK parcel carrier, now owned by UPS *

Lynx Software Technologies Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. (formerly LynuxWorks) is a San Jose, California software company founded in 1988. Lynx specializes in secure virtualization and open, reliable, certifiable real-time operating systems (RTOSes). Originally known as ...

, an American software company * Lynx Rifles, a Finnish manufacturer of handmade straight pull rifles *

Yashica Lynx The Lynx is a family of rangefinder cameras made by Japanese company Yashica from the early-1960s with coupled and fixed lenses. Models The Lynx 1000 was introduced in 1960. It has a 1:1.8 45 mm lens with 6 elements in 4 groups. The diaph ...

, a family of rangefinder cameras from the 1960s *

Lynx (grooming product) Axe or Lynx is a brand of male grooming products owned by the British company Unilever and marketed toward the younger male demographic. It is marketed as Lynx in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and China. Products ...

, a brand of deodorant known as Axe in some markets * ''Lynx'', a brand of footwear owned by Colorado Group Limited

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 * Lynx Point, an Intel chipset *

LynxOS The LynxOS RTOS is a Unix-like real-time operating system from Lynx Software Technologies (formerly "LynuxWorks"). Sometimes known as the Lynx Operating System, LynxOS features full POSIX conformance and, more recently, Linux compatibility. L ...

, an operating system * Camputers Lynx, a British computer * Lynx family, a family of HP AlphaServers

Gaming

Lynx (video game console) The Atari Lynx is a hybrid 8/16-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Atari Corporation in September 1989 in North America and 1990 in Europe and Japan. It was the first handheld game console with a color liquid-crystal disp ...

, a handheld gaming console by Atari * ''Lynx'' (Chrono Cross), a major character in the video game ''Chrono Cross''

People

* Lynx Vaughan Gaede (born 1992), half of the American white nationalist folk teen duo Prussian Blue * 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 Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the " Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in R ...

, the first scientific society

Sports

* Minnesota Lynx, a WNBA basketball team * Toronto Lynx, a USL First Division soccer team *

Ottawa Lynx The Ottawa Lynx were a Minor League Baseball team that competed in the Triple-A International League (IL) from 1993 to 2007. The team's home field was Lynx Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario. Over 15 seasons, the team was an affiliate of the Montreal ...

, 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 * Tampere Lynx (''Tampereen Ilves''), a Finnish soccer team *

Toronto Lady Lynx Toronto Lady Lynx was a Canadian women's association football, soccer team, founded in 2005. The team was a member of the USL W-League, formerly the second tier of women’s soccer in the United States and Canada. The team played in the Great Lake ...

, 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 The Slovenia men's national ice hockey team is the ice hockey team representing Slovenia internationally. It is governed by the Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia. As of September 2022, Slovenia is ranked 19th in the world by the IIHF World Rank ...

* 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 The Belleville Learning Center, previously known as Lindenwood University–Belleville and Lindenwood Belleville, is a defunct satellite campus of Lindenwood University. It offered evening postgraduate and undergraduate classes for about 300 stu ...

, Illinois

Other uses

* Armstrong Siddeley Lynx, an early aircraft engine *

Lynx (mythology) The lynx, a type of wildcat, has a prominent role in Greek, Norse, and North American mythology. It is considered an elusive and mysterious creature, known in some Native American traditions as a 'keeper of secrets'. It is also believed to have ...

, in various mythologies * Lynx (comics), three fictional characters in the DC Comics universe * ''Lynx'' (magazine), a Japanese literary magazine published by

Gentosha is a Japanese publisher, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. Gentosha publishes manga magazine '' Comic Birz'', Web comic magazines '' GENZO'', ''SPICA'', '' Comic MAGNA'', literary magazines ''Lynx'', ''papyrus'', as well as business magazine ''GOE ...

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